On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:36:44 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
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>"tim" <TimJ@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> 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
>:-)
>
So you're the guy that did that!! First job I had out of college was
working in an all IBM Assembler shop. They had about 20 different
applications consisting of around 300 programs or so. One of the
first changes they wanted was to convert their file access system from
DA to ISAM (which was the soup de jour of the day). The reason was
noone, and I mean noone myslef included, could figure out how the damn
thing worked! It did work but neither I, the resident Assembler
programmer or the account's IBM system engineer (back in the days when
these guys could write code with the best of them) could figure out
how it worked. The person that wrote it and moved on to another job
in another state and wasn't available for questions. This wasn't a
bank, but I'm going to blame you for my many nights of writing code to
change the file access. :)
>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.
Regards,
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