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Richard Plinston

"best practices"

When a consultant has told a client of mine that some way is "best practices" it has always been that they have not actually evaluated the real needs and just want to do what they have done elsewhere and it wasn't a complete disaster (ie the consultant made a profit).

In one case the client was a jobbing shop using CAM where the machines were paired with design stations. I installed hubs for each pair and set fixed IPs so that as long as there was power the workshop could keep working. A consultant recommended using DHCP as "best practice" even though that could mean the workshop would be inoperable if the power failed and then returned but the servers were still down (which actually did happen, though only once).

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