Bloody_Sorcerer: In your particular situation with ghosting machines weekly I can understand your creating the shortcuts or you'd go mad getting it all done.
Back to the cows:
Ok, so now we should beleive that the entire output of the DPC_ICA_COWS for the last 7 days(690,500 cands) came from one location in one huge business or school, or factory that was controlled by one person who'd imaged the app so as to save the 5 mins tops of the install because there were so many machines to put it on.
If that were true, I'd say ok, makes sense, the guy needs to make this into assembly line work just as Bloody_Sorcerer has to. Pure common sense in those scenarios.
But this is different, this is an entire team putting out an average of 98,643 a day over one weeks timeframe, No one on the whole team had a different node? No one on this team ever had to do a format and grab one off the D2OL page? ever? from anyone? This node has upped as of this am 1,833,306 cands. This is one amazing node, it goes to every machine in the group and no one ever had the need to use another. Tell me that this sub team is one guy with 300PC's in a huge business and I'll apologise, anything short of that and I find it very difficult to beleive that any group, separated by any distance with all the factors that effect PC's from harddrive failure to electrical surges to virus's and no one ever needed another node? C'mon guys, do we all look like we just got off the turnip truck yesterday?
Can I prove it :NO! But if it looks like, tastes like and smells like, it probably is.
and to end my point, we've yet to hear from the Cows anything definitive to explain it.
One last point that is very relevant: By using this one node are you not defeating the purpose of the project? Let me play devils advocate: Isn't the point to explore all the possibilities and by using this one node you are hindering that? This point I may well be wrong about as my understanding of the particular node usage isn't total and if I'm wrong on this I apologise on this point.