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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3606805" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>In the early days of IT, it used to be common to have services that were used by unknown users, and one tried and true (albeit not entirely customer-friendly) method to find out who they were was to either let it fail or turn it off to see who screamed. A former colleague called this the "fiber-seeking backhoe method," because we used to see a lot of inattentive backhoe operators who were really good at finding the buried fiber.</p><p></p><p>I'm pretty one of them built the private road just across my south property line--he managed to cut my phone line four times in two weeks. One time it was so bad that the AT$T lineman couldn't even locate the cut end of the line and had to pull a new one, and one time the idiot stabbed his real estate sign through the new line before they'd even had a chance to bury it. I very seriously considered "borrowing" some parts from his dozer until he figured out how to freaking call 811.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 3606805, member: 26737"] In the early days of IT, it used to be common to have services that were used by unknown users, and one tried and true (albeit not entirely customer-friendly) method to find out who they were was to either let it fail or turn it off to see who screamed. A former colleague called this the "fiber-seeking backhoe method," because we used to see a lot of inattentive backhoe operators who were really good at finding the buried fiber. I'm pretty one of them built the private road just across my south property line--he managed to cut my phone line four times in two weeks. One time it was so bad that the AT$T lineman couldn't even locate the cut end of the line and had to pull a new one, and one time the idiot stabbed his real estate sign through the new line before they'd even had a chance to bury it. I very seriously considered "borrowing" some parts from his dozer until he figured out how to freaking call 811. [/QUOTE]
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