Scaring Computer Nerds With Swashbuckling Attitude to IT

[xoggoth]

Just turning off certainly screwed up my crappy Linux.

[DiscoStu]

On the Dell desktops we had at ClientCo in the 1990s, removing the keyboard lead with the PC running would destroy the keyboard. I didn't believe that when told, so demonstrated it was utter bollocks.

Oops.

I remember this, the Super I/O chip didn't seem to like it and would make a bit of a protest

[threaded]

Just turning off certainly screwed up my crappy Linux.

When I was doing research in MRI I bought this Sun 3/280 + extra disk box and a whacking great multicore pixel machine.

Switching it off at night was not good for it. Always problems starting it up in the next morning when it was inspecting the disks.

Gets on to Sun technical, they say "Why not just leave it switched on then"

So I did.

I got a phone call in the middle of the night that the lab was on fire...

Super-computers don'tcha just love 'em.

[xoggoth]

How is it that criticising somebody else's favoured operating system is not a hate crime yet?

One of the pleasures yet to come if Labour are re-elelected. Man sues couple for saying his Apple Mac is not as good as Windows PC.

[Not So Wise]

Man sues couple for saying his Apple Mac is not as good as Windows PC.

And it would be this way around...mac users are sensitive gits

[swamp]

I remember pair programming in Java doing Test Driven Development. We wanted to prove that something 'bad' wouldn't happen, and we had to identify the 'bad' thing. It started life out as:

System.out.println("This should not happen...!");

The other chap thought this wasn't 'bad' enough, so replaced it with:

throw new RuntimeException("This should not happen...!");

Not to be outdone I upped it to:

throw new Error("This should not happen...!");

And at the end of the arms race it became:

System.exit(1);

Then we had lunch and finished the code in the afternoon and committed everything. Then strange things started happening to the application... We forgot to remove the System.exit(...) call!

Rule: don't ever be cavalier with code.

[NotAllThere]

Of course, the next step is : format all drives

After that: arm security device

Followed by: detonate.

I always eject before pulling my stick out

That's why you've so many, ahem, diverse kids

My nephew was a bit stroppy the other month when I asked him to look something up on his Ipod using any unencrypted connection available. He was banging on about how it was illegal etc and wouldn't have it.

A smack around the head usually cures such f.ckwittery.