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Re:How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with... by flashman on Thursday December 01, 2016 @04:50AM (#13078333)
This is going straight into my favourite bug-hunting stories, along with the 500-Mile Email: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
Re:How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with... by qznc on Thursday December 01, 2016 @10:31AM (#13079985)
Re:How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with... by erl on Thursday December 01, 2016 @02:21PM (#13082530)
Now that is a great collection, thank you!

One thing that I think would make the collection even better is spoiler free titles to maximize the suspense.

For example, the screen saver story lost much excitement when I knew the cause from the title.

Re:How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with... by qznc on Thursday December 01, 2016 @05:09PM (#13084033)
Good point. I changed a few. Thanks for the note.
Re:How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with... by OJFord on Thursday December 01, 2016 @02:36PM (#13082660)
"My printer doesn't work on Tuesdays" is another good one.
Re:How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with... by ethbro on Thursday December 01, 2016 @03:49PM (#13083389)
My favorite debugging challenges are the "Pfft, computers simply don't work that way" -> user reproduces symptoms in an inarguable manner -> "Hmm..." -> "Well, apparently when thirteen levels of stacked prisms are arranged in the right way, computers do work that way. Fixed (on Tuesdays)."

Edit: Or, you know, hardware failures that nobody expects anymore.

Re:How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with... by sdoering on Thursday December 01, 2016 @05:38AM (#13078519)
Thanks. Didn't know this one. Great read and highly entertaining.
Re:How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with... by overcast on Thursday December 01, 2016 @12:08PM (#13081059)
Oh man, as a systems guy, this warms my cold winter morning.
Re:How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with... by hood_syntax on Thursday December 01, 2016 @09:25AM (#13079478)
A true classic, I never get tired of reading that one.
Re:How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with... by acobster on Thursday December 01, 2016 @10:23AM (#13079897)
Thanks for the recommendation! Great read.