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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] datakit
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:24:05 +0200
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> - what errors? We're not seeing them
>   (oh, wait, we're not LOOKING for them, oops -- yes, this really
>    happens!)

sure does.  took me a year to find a flakey switch to
switch cable.  this was ethernet and this cable was
special so you could stack them.

every few months one chunk of [thin] coax would go
bad to one office (the other 7 were fine).

once found, the standard protocol, when dealing with
broken h/w, was employed:

    if it's broken, break it

this avoids some other poor sap from re-using it.

satisfying too!