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Previously on "Scaring Computer Nerds With Swashbuckling Attitude to IT"

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  • NotAllThere
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    Of course, the next step is : format all drives

    After that: arm security device

    Followed by: detonate.

    Originally posted by Diver View Post
    I always eject before pulling my stick out
    That's why you've so many, ahem, diverse kids

    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    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.

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  • swamp
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    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.

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  • Not So Wise
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    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

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  • xoggoth
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    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.

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  • threaded
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    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.

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  • DiscoStu
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    Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
    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

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  • xoggoth
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    Just turning off certainly screwed up my crappy Linux.

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  • TimberWolf
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    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.

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  • RichardCranium
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    woz replacing the keyboard on my vaio whilst up and running, stupid socket on mother board broke.
    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.

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  • Platypus
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    I used to work with a guy who would get in to a total tiswas if I closed the CD-drive by pushing on the tray. He insisted on using the button.

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  • Diver
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    Originally posted by threaded View Post
    No, it does seem OK on windows, and older mac kit. Just newer macs have some problems, and they really break stuff too.
    I always eject before pulling my stick out

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  • scooterscot
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    woz replacing the keyboard on my vaio whilst up and running, stupid socket on mother board broke. Got my glue gun out... quality job. No restart required.

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  • threaded
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    Originally posted by DieScum View Post
    Yeah, yeah. I've been lucky for the past decade.

    I think you are one of these IT nerds that I scare.
    No, it does seem OK on windows, and older mac kit. Just newer macs have some problems, and they really break stuff too.

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  • DieScum
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    You've been lucky.

    I used to do that, then discovered on newer Apples it'll generally fsck your kit up if you pull it out without warning.
    Yeah, yeah. I've been lucky for the past decade.

    I think you are one of these IT nerds that I scare.

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  • scooterscot
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    Sounds like a case of OCD - Stressed out society so it is. I blame nu labore.

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