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foobat
Nov 26, 2008
I'll throw in

quote:

Dear [foobat],

Can you come to room 241? There seems to be a problem with [machine A]'s backup, on the original machine via [server] in [some directory] I have 40 files but on [server] from [machine B] I can only see 10

Thanks,
Some user

Basically she was using different sized terminal windows on the 2 machines, so 'ls' formatted them into a different number of columns. I don't think she understands that even if you logon to a different machine, the files on our server ARE THE SAME.

quote:

Hi,

I am running [some random scientific program] and I am not getting the results I want, could you please take a look?

I am not a scientist, that is your job...

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