Posts by D-Coder 24 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Dec 2015
I once worked on some software that would decipher logs and error codes and do some simple OS tests for the field service people.
One of the tests did not work at a specific level of the machine's microcode.
I did NOT put in the message, "Upgrade microcode and press <RETURN>"... but as a joke, my weekly progress report to my manager did say that I'd done that.
Five minutes later he came almost running into my office...
First man on the moon suffered a similar accident (after the moon): Wikipedia:
While working on his farm in November 1978, Armstrong jumped off the back of his grain truck and caught his wedding ring in its wheel, tearing the tip off his left ring finger. He collected the severed tip, packed it in ice, and had surgeons reattach it at the Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.
I was working the computer center's help desk back in college days, in a New England town. I was not from New England.
Someone asked for help with a FORTRAN program that wouldn't compile.
I pointed out that INTERGER may be fine New England pronunciation, but apparently the FORTRAN compiler spoke Middle American English.
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