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Old 05-15-2006, 09:49 AM  
Bama
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I won't bore you with all the details of the program, but I had an exe distributed out to a TON of users - everything running smoothly so the programmer decides he wants to drive down to Louisianna for Madi Gras from New York and he would be gone for a week.

14 days later (still no word from him) I started looking for him - doing searches, phone calls and stuff...

Come to find out that during the drive down he fell asleep at the wheel and was killed.

Later, found out that he'd hardcoded in IP's into the exe when we had to move servers - and only he had the source code.

I lost all of my users - and as bad as I got screwed - I guess he got it worse.
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