test please delete

[TheFaQQer]

Whooops.

Bit worse than my adding a couple of variables to some embedded code & breaking the PC downloader.

A former client went live with a form that occasionally popped up a window that said "F*** YOU!" because the developer had left it in as a comment to show when that part of the code fired.

Because it was client-server, they had to download new forms onto each client - so only had four releases a year. So only three months of the message appearing.

[zeitghost]

NorrMater is from the 1940's school of cookery, everything must be boiled or cremated.

Everything must be cooked until dead.

Om.

I seem to have developed a bit of an allergy to my antiperspirent.

My armpits have been itching like fury for days.

So I've given up using it for a while.

<Zeity's "perfume" pervades the library computer room>

[TheFaQQer]

Three months later, calls come in...

"I keep getting told to F*** OFF by the system".

Same developer, different message in a similar place

[zeitghost]

Three months later, calls come in...

"I keep getting told to F*** OFF by the system".

Same developer, different message in a similar place

It wasn't me, was it?

[TheFaQQer]

I'm glad to say that I can't understand any of that.

It's an automated process, that when nothing happens, gets escalated to the line manager.

A number of places never limit the number of managers that it can go to, so if you aren't careful it goes to senior people. When it gets to the ultimate boss, the process errors because there is no line manager any more and there is no error checking.

I saw it worst on a client that wanted to email the problem to a DBA and then escalate it every hour if it was unresolved. The database crashed over the weekend when no-one was working, so come Monday morning the big boss was being pinged every hour that some database was down.

[Bunk]

Everything must be cooked until dead.

Om.

I seem to have developed a bit of an allergy to my antiperspirent.

My armpits have been itching like fury for days.

So I've given up using it for a while.

<Zeity's "perfume" pervades the library computer room>

So today, you're one of the great unwashed you complain about?

[TheFaQQer]

It wasn't me, was it?

It was some Welsh weirdo working in Bristol.

Sound familiar?

[Bunk]

It was some Welsh weirdo working in Bristol.

Sound familiar?

That could well be Zeity on his travels.

[zeitghost]

I couldn't possibly comment.

I've only worked in Bristol a couple of times, but that company (as is usual) is long gone now.

They did virtual reality stuff.

And I did elektroniky stuff and C stuff for them.

It was quite fun.

It was before I got myself a company.

[zeitghost]

Well, it turns out that wot I thought was my malodour was actually the guy sat next to me.

I seem to smell mostly of tomatoes at the moment.

It's that bondage in the green house this morning wot dun it.



Byeeeee