"tim" <TimJ@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:13s728si8g08id9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:46:19 +1300, Pete Dashwood wrote:
>
>>
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/23/AR2008022300693_pf.html
>>
>> What I'd like to know is exactly HOW you can establish yourself as a
>> Geek,
>> so you can claim this defence. If writing a file system for Linux is
all
>> it
>> takes (a weekend's work for a COBOL programmer...), then there are a
lot
>> more Geeks around than many people may suppose.
>>
>> Did he do it? (Jo Brand, referring to O. J. Simpson: "Course he did
it;
>> he's a bloke...")
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Pete.
>
> You must be pretty good if you can write 15,000 lines of
> multi-processing kernel code in a weekend.
Well, leaving aside the fact that I AM pretty good :-), it was said with
tongue-in-cheek...:-)
As a matter of record, I once wrote a complete access method for a
mainframe
in a Bank, over a weekend. Another dedicated guy and myself worked on
implementing it into about 300 programs over the same weekend. It enabled
direct access based on Account numbers and had its own ha****ng algorithm
based around the structure of account numbers in that particular Bank. It
was a complete callable subsystem that implemented all the functions of
data
maintenance using VSAM RRDS. On Monday, everythng was working when the
staff
showed up. We had a total of 9 hours sleep each and were given the rest of
the week off... :-) It was a long time ago; I wouldn't/couldn't do it now
:-)
This is the size of the ext3
> file system which is the predominant file system used in Linux.
>
Like I said, my comment was not meant seriously...
> His attorney's tactics smack of desperation I think. But I have no idea
> whether he did it.
Yes, I agree. I also have no idea whether he did it and would not make any
kind of judgement until I had reviewed the evidence.
Nevertheless, it is an "interesting" defence...
Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
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