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Title: Oh the email that crushed NAIT's Lotus Notes
Post by: Melbosa on February 04, 2019, 02:45:47 PM
https://www.facebook.com/zakkwylde/videos/2246832745640460/...

Forgot about this one until today when I saw it on facebook.  Yes, DD can tell you, when this first came out as an email attachment it almost destroyed NAIT's Lotus Notes server as it got passed around by Staff.
Title: Re: Oh the email that crushed NAIT's Lotus Notes
Post by: Mr. Analog on February 04, 2019, 04:04:19 PM
OH man back in the good ol' days when you had to share the files and not some YouTube link :rofl:
Title: Re: Oh the email that crushed NAIT's Lotus Notes
Post by: Darren Dirt on February 05, 2019, 07:27:08 AM
Roundkicking bear vs. human?

Just based on the thread title.

And it was due to running out of space IIRC. Nobody thought ahead how stupid people might be...
Title: Re: Oh the email that crushed NAIT's Lotus Notes
Post by: Mr. Analog on February 05, 2019, 09:52:32 AM
Quote from: Darren Dirt on February 05, 2019, 07:27:08 AM
Roundkicking bear vs. human?

Just based on the thread title.

And it was due to running out of space IIRC. Nobody thought ahead how stupid people might be...

The trouble with idiot proofing is the universe always makes a better idiot.
Title: Re: Oh the email that crushed NAIT's Lotus Notes
Post by: Melbosa on February 06, 2019, 10:11:19 AM
Quote from: Darren Dirt on February 05, 2019, 07:27:08 AM
Roundkicking bear vs. human?
Yep
Quote from: Darren Dirt on February 05, 2019, 07:27:08 AM
Just based on the thread title.
Good Memory lol
Quote from: Darren Dirt on February 05, 2019, 07:27:08 AM
And it was due to running out of space IIRC. Nobody thought ahead how stupid people might be...
It sure was, at the time I think it was a 10mb attachment, shared by over 600 people and we didn't have the capacity for it on the Lotus Notes email servers lol
Title: Re: Oh the email that crushed NAIT's Lotus Notes
Post by: Darren Dirt on February 06, 2019, 03:58:58 PM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on February 05, 2019, 09:52:32 AM
The trouble with idiot proofing is the universe always makes a better idiot.

Yup, there's a StackExchange AND a Quora for that!

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/91961/what-is-a-nicer-way-of-describing-the-process-of-idiot-proofing-a-piece-of-sof

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-the-quote-Programming-today-is-a-race-between-software-engineers-striving-to-build-bigger-and-better-idiot-proof-programs-and-the-universe-trying-to-build-bigger-and-better-idiots-So-far-the



Title: Re: Oh the email that crushed NAIT's Lotus Notes
Post by: Darren Dirt on February 06, 2019, 04:03:35 PM
LOL there's also a card game called "idiot" (not id1ot, but that's close enough)

https://cardgames.io/idiot/#rules