Re: re: He can't be at the front of the room if he is that stupid
Because it's a write-only file. Everyone knows that.
O? Ever hear of printer feedback? Like low on ink?
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3: Most computers actually didn't store dates as 6 character strings. If you want to store them as efficiently as possible, that isn't the way to do it. That's why, for example, lots of computers ended up displaying the date as 1/1/19100, or 1/1/100, which looks a bit silly, but otherwise isn't a problem.
A six digit number can be stored in 4 bytes using BCD, already an improvement. The most efficient way to store a six digit date is in two bytes (16 bits) with 7 bits for the year (allowing for 127 years from an arbitrary base zero), 4 bits for the month and 5 bits for the day.
I'd say Dave Plummer has some objections to the PDP11 being dropped in the river.
It's a common mistake, but JCL was only used in IBM operating systems. There's no indication that this problem occurred on an IBM system.
I only have experience with IBM operating systems (at least where mainframes are concerned) and mainframe without other specifications usually (at least in my experience) means IBM.
Shouty people trigger my stubborn streak. I'm unlikely to go the extra bit for them. Ever.
I am likely to go the extra bit for them ... but not in the direction they expect. I am a programmer by trade, but I qualify as operator on some systems as well, so they will get the complete BOFH and BPFH treatment when I deem it is warranted.
No need for anonymous posting as those who recognize this fall into two categories:
Colleagues who completely agree and shouty people whose parents weren't even introduced to each other and who will still get screaming nightmares, leaving them unable to do anything about this.
Also, experience tells you that if it's one of those options you get on propitiatory pro-sumer gear says "automatically do magic fixes to my network and make things brilliant, with some mesh and stuff", treat the damn thing the same way you would a land mine.
I'd say with a lot more care, land mines are simple and easy to understand.
* Bit of trivia: Being sacked referred to being handed your tools (in a sack) and told to go ply your trade elsewhere. Being fired referred to having your tools destroyed by fire so you couldn't continue working in that trade any longer without going back through apprenticeship to acquire the tools again.
That bit of trivia in and of itself deserves way more than the single upvote I can give you.
Generally takes me a week or so, when visiting, to get back in the groove. But I still read it on a daily basis and can generally insta-context switch.
It takes me about the same amount of time too for German and insta-context switching takes about the same time. I am for all practical purposes completely bilingual Dutch-English, but I don't have enough opportunity to keep fluent in German.
<IBM ... well documented</i>
I've always found the IBM documentation to be top notch, learned a lot from it. When I started as a programmer (a long time ago) on my first job, I would have some of the IBM documentation on my desk to leave through before starting the workday, during breaks and at the end of the workday before catching the bus.
barrelling down an autobahn at some insane speed ... entirely from memory and a second language. Much impressed!
The first two I can believe, the third on top of the first two requires sufficient command of that second language to be classified as completely bi-lingual, pretty rare for Germans. If true, I am extremely impressed.
Translated : I've helped a number of people through the window on the 30th floor, but they just keep on falling...
I first read that last word with an "i" for the first "l".
However, upon consideration, there should be some of them that don't fail and rise to Heaven. The others will keep falling for a while longer.
(the ban also did very little to prevent me from frequently pointing out that the root cause of any particular problem could typically be found weighing the requester's chair down; a trait which has served me very well after naturally drifting into my current career in IT Security Manglement)
So the standard ID-ten-T error with the usual code of either PEBKAC or PICNIC.