[X4U] Panther Server Logs
    Stroller 
    macmonster at myrealbox.com
       
    Mon Aug 29 12:57:59 PDT 2005
    
    
  
On Aug 29, 2005, at 6:17 pm, Jens Selvig wrote:
> Thinking about this issue leads me to wonder. What if the server 
> contains 'official' data that the organization doesn't want changed 
> but wants employees to be able to use. Then working off the server 
> would not be good since re-saving the files on the server would 
> corrupt the original data.
In that case the files should be set read-only, so the users CAN'T 
over-write the data. If you're imposing restrictions upon users which 
could so easily be imposed by software you can hardly blame them when 
they ignore your "policy",
    According to Robert Murphy's account, his father's statement was
    along the lines of "If there's more than one way to do a job, and
    one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do
    it that way".
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law
Stroller.
    
    
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