lol!

once upon a time there was a young dude who was sentenced to track main folders diskspace on all the customers Company Servers over an unspecified period of time, not for being naughty or soemthing, just for one others satisfaction.

So, the young dude decided to run a script on a daily base on all the kingdoms Servers using diruse.exe and write those results to an ini based file on that Server.
Furthermore he ran, clever as he was, a scheduled script on his machine that grabbed all the results of all the servers to be written to a database on the young dudes Domain Servers.(Shawn, the Wizzard of OLE was kind enough to show the young dude how to write through KiX 3.x to a database)
So the days did go by and became weeks, the weeks grew up to be months and the young dude did report to his Boss ... and the Boss said:
"What? Diskspace tracking? Nice thing indeed, but who wants to know this ?"
"Ummm ... I thought it was the cusomers big chief that wanted us to report this over an unspecified amount of time..." the young dude replied.
"Oh yeah," the boss said, "they decided to implement a 'not to be named here expensive Systems Management System' in the mean time, so we don't need that anymore!"

[Eek!]

And the morale of this tale :

Don't expect too much in writing code, but always expect the Spanish Inquisition [Big Grin]
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