• Arjan (unregistered)

    Sweet, a sneak peak into the future :-)

    Love the HearABlog add-on!

  • (cs)

    He had the whole WEB in his hands!

    Now I need to "get to more than fetching coffee" and stop reading TheDailyWTF.

  • (cs)

    I remember those Indys. Slow unless what you wanted to do was very fancy graphics. And with IRIX too. Windows was better (and Linux a pleasant dream).

  • (cs)

    Mmm I remember Indy! It was sweet in its day. AutoCAD even ran native on it.

    But that's a pretty small CD collection you got there Joe. And why would 500 MB of mp3s overflow a new computer?

  • gpb (unregistered)

    Where's Our Story? Seriously...

    CAPTCHA - augue: a disagreement with a kindergartner.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)
    Joe:
    "I just ripped my whole collection!" ... "I've already got 500 megs worth!"
    So Joe's entire CD collection consisted of five albums?
  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    So Joe's entire CD collection consisted of five albums?
    There were still SGI dinosaurs about, so Joe was probably recording at an embarrassingly low bit-rate.
  • Azeem (unregistered)

    HA! I use to work at SGI in their manufacturing department putting Indy's and later O2's together! Ahhh those were the times!

  • (cs)

    I'm still waiting to hear about the possessed computer.

  • Studley (unregistered)

    Spoiling the story in the title? That's a new one.

    I wonder how many people would've gone to watch Star Wars Episode V: Darth Is Luke's Father?

  • (cs) in reply to Studley
    Studley:
    ....I wonder how many people would've gone to watch Star Wars Episode V: Darth Is Luke's Father?

    You almost owed me a couple new monitors. Don't ask me how hard it is to remove Coke off a screen that's been on for a week.

    Oh, and funny one.

  • k1 (unregistered)
    But Joe was left to explain to the VP why his once-pristine computer was now overflowing with MP3s and demos of spinning cubes.

    Obviously, it was done by an evil hacker, out there in teh interdet.

    Seriously: is Joe so retarded to leave his mess in the VP computer?

    CYA

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to Studley
    Studley:
    Spoiling the story in the title? That's a new one.

    I wonder how many people would've gone to watch Star Wars Episode V: Darth Is Luke's Father?

    Agreed. The title should really be more neutral, like "The new computer" or something.

  • RogerWilco (unregistered) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    I remember those Indys. Slow unless what you wanted to do was very fancy graphics. And with IRIX too. Windows was better (and Linux a pleasant dream).
    When I started university in 1994, we had Indy's sitting next to 486DX-33/8Mb RAM Win 3.11 machines. In comparison the 166Mhz/64Mb RAM machines were screaming fast even compared to the few early 60Mhz Pentiums that were around but we as students could never afford or get access to.
  • (cs) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    Studley:
    I wonder how many people would've gone to watch Star Wars Episode V: Darth Is Luke's Father?

    Agreed. The title should really be more neutral, like "The new computer" or something.

    Star Wars V: The new computer.

    Yes, that would have drawn crowds to the cinema. :)

    (Oh, the joys of selective quoting.)

  • aristos_achaion (unregistered) in reply to k1
    k1:
    But Joe was left to explain to the VP why his once-pristine computer was now overflowing with MP3s and demos of spinning cubes.

    Obviously, it was done by an evil hacker, out there in teh interdet.

    Seriously: is Joe so retarded to leave his mess in the VP computer?

    CYA

    There's a reason we have internships: to weed out people like Joe.

  • Mark Mullin (unregistered)

    Not suprising about the Indy

    We used to say

    Q - What's an Indy ? A - An Indigo, without the go

  • (cs)

    yawn and the WTF is....?

  • Where's the beef (unregistered) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    Studley:
    Spoiling the story in the title? That's a new one.

    I wonder how many people would've gone to watch Star Wars Episode V: Darth Is Luke's Father?

    Agreed. The title should really be more neutral, like "The new computer" or something.

    I think the perfect title would be "Don't bother reading today".

    I usually enjoy the stories that some of the more finicky readers complain about, but this was just pointless... More Tales From the Interview!!

  • Steve (unregistered) in reply to Kermos

    Do you mean to say that taking the QA dept's webserver and giving it to an intern to use as a desktop was a good idea?

  • Raptor (unregistered) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    I remember those Indys. Slow unless what you wanted to do was very fancy graphics. And with IRIX too. Windows was better (and Linux a pleasant dream).

    ...even Windows 3.11 was better than IRIX.

  • (cs)

    This was like sitting in a bare, empty room, while there's what sounds like a really cool WTF going on next door.

  • My Name? (unregistered) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    I remember those Indys. Slow unless what you wanted to do was very fancy graphics. And with IRIX too. Windows was better (and Linux a pleasant dream).

    Do you really compare Windows 3.x with a real UNIX-system? In 1994 no PC was able to compete with a UNIX workstation. And I doubt that any Windows would be useful on an Indy.

  • Anonymously Yours (unregistered) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    This was like sitting in a bare, empty room, while there's what sounds like a really cool WTF going on next door.
    Quoted for truth.

    Normally I don't gripe about story quality, but there's a reason Bond movies don't spend 95% of the time following around a fruit vendor who'll eventually have his cart destroyed by a car chase.

    CAPTCHA: paratus - An aristocratic parasite.

  • pete (unregistered)

    Why isn't there the bosses explanation in the post for why he took it? Along the lines of it was sat in a cupboard doing nothing (seemingly).

  • gus (unregistered)

    Oh, Lordy, how this takes me back.

    Around 1999 I was sent to a company backwater. The conmputers available for use were some ancient IBM 486's (ebay value back then: $18).

    The alternative was a Fancy-looking SGI box with swoopy curves. An Indigo maybe?

    So I boot it up and Hmmm, a proprietary OS! How quaint.

    It's supposed to have real flash graphics, but I type "ls" and I CAN SEE IT DRAWING EACH CHARACTER. The ls output came out at about 4800 baud. No more.

    That's when I went and spent $600 of my own money to build a Linux box that was about 30 times faster than that 5-digit SGI box.

  • V (unregistered)

    I would've loved to have heard that Joe got lynched after all of this, but unfortunately I get the idea that Miha will get it for not being productive during the last week.

    populus: Now I wanna play it.

  • (cs)

    Good wtf... Too bad it's been written down so badly.

    After reading the title and the first sentence, I understood the entire punchline. Well, more or less; I expected more trouble, people screaming that the webserver was down, but when the guy went to investigate it always started working again [as he turned on the computer]! Now, that would be a good story. So I expected something worse, but still too close for the story to be told well. It's yet another of those title-explains-everything stories, as it happened so often. Could you guys please pick a bit better titles, that don't spoil the punchline? And after the first sentence, there's a whole lot of text that's completely unrelated to the punchline. It didn't make it better. It didn't do anything to the story.

    It could've been quite funny if this story wouldn't have been so horribly predictable.

  • (cs) in reply to Severity One
    Severity One:
    Mike:
    Studley:
    I wonder how many people would've gone to watch Star Wars Episode V: Darth Is Luke's Father?

    Agreed. The title should really be more neutral, like "The new computer" or something.

    Star Wars V: The new computer.

    Yes, that would have drawn crowds to the cinema. :)

    (Oh, the joys of selective quoting.)

    Hmm. "The Engeneer's Strike Back"

    Addendum (2010-02-18 11:54): Ups. There should be no "'" in title. Sorry - English is not my first language.

  • Zach Bora (unregistered) in reply to Studley
    Studley:
    Spoiling the story in the title? That's a new one.

    I wonder how many people would've gone to watch Star Wars Episode V: Darth Is Luke's Father?

    I've stopped reading titles for this very reason. When I go to the library, I just randomly select a book! (not really...)

  • (cs)

    The real WTF is all the people who are down on SGIs and Irix ;-)

    I had an Indy as my workstation for 3 years. Lightning fast compared to the old diskless SPARCstation it replaced. Not so good for compiling though: luckily we had an Origin 2000 for that.

    The Indy also held up well against the Linux loaded Pentium one of my colleagues got. That could compile a lot faster but just using it was painful in all other ways.

    Irix was pretty neat. Much better than Windows 3 or 95.

  • Dirk (unregistered) in reply to Studley
    Studley:
    ... Star Wars Episode V: Darth Is Luke's Father
    He is? Crap, I was about to see that one, now you ruined it. Maybe I'll go see what all the Jar-Jar buzz was about instead.
  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered) in reply to Dirk
    Dirk:
    Studley:
    ... Star Wars Episode V: Darth Is Luke's Father
    He is? Crap, I was about to see that one, now you ruined it. Maybe I'll go see what all the Jar-Jar buzz was about instead.
    Don't bother, I'll save you the trouble: Jar-Jar is Darth Vader's father.

    (With any luck, the SW geeks will now render the discussion delightfully off-topic)

  • Adam C (unregistered)

    Is it only me that hates when jerks include the captcha word in their post and try to assign a meaning to it?

  • (cs)

    I bet the original submitted story went more like this:

    "So like I interned at this place and they gave me an old crappy computer and then it turned out to be a stolen server from the other group next door hahaha lol!!!"

    Anonymization works wonders! ... well, usually.

  • Winbloz Luser (unregistered)

    But I don't understand! If he was sitting in front of the computer, how could anyone else be using it?

  • Anonimi (unregistered) in reply to Adam C

    Yes.

  • Bob (unregistered)

    Yeah, we're going to need to discuss something other than the article today. The whole story could have been condensed to a tweet.

    Captcha: getoverit

  • JW (unregistered)

    Did no one notice that [b]Joe was using the boss's coffee mug[\b]!? Sick...

  • somedude (unregistered)

    Star Wars V: Maybe I Needing Later Star Wars VI: ?

  • just me (unregistered) in reply to Anonimi
    Anonimi:
    Yes.
    Is it only me that hates when people click "reply" instead of "quote"?
  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered)
    Anonymous:
    Well, today's article is a blow-out and we all want something to discuss so I nominate...

    DESIGNER SHOWER HEADS

    Featured comment!!! (I lol'd)

  • Quebert (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward:
    (With any luck, the SW geeks will now render the discussion delightfully off-topic)

    My favorite line about StarWars comes from The Big Bang Theory.

    Sheldon: I prefer to be disappointed in the order George Lucas intended.

  • Seminymous Coward (unregistered) in reply to just me
    just me:
    Anonimi:
    Yes.
    Is it only me that hates when people click "reply" instead of "quote"?

    No

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    I'm still waiting to hear about the possessed computer.

    Since the network was glacially slow and he was able to get stuff done outside of normal business hours, I think his desktop was still functioning as the webserver. So while he was seemingly doing "nothing", his computer was still pretty busy.

  • Peter (unregistered) in reply to RogerWilco
    RogerWilco:
    dkf:
    I remember those Indys. Slow unless what you wanted to do was very fancy graphics. And with IRIX too. Windows was better (and Linux a pleasant dream).
    When I started university in 1994, we had Indy's sitting next to 486DX-33/8Mb RAM Win 3.11 machines. In comparison the 166Mhz/64Mb RAM machines were screaming fast even compared to the few early 60Mhz Pentiums that were around but we as students could never afford or get access to.

    I had one of those 486/33 machines running Win3.1 I lost all respect for Windows when I dual-booted Slackware Linux on the machine and used it as an XTerm to our UNIX system. Came close to doubling my schematic capture productivity once I was free of QEMM errors.

  • (cs)

    You lost me at Where's Our Webserver?

    I miss MFD (ohh, that's was REALLY fun).

    Captcha: anyway you're work is great alex

  • (cs) in reply to akatherder
    akatherder:
    frits:
    I'm still waiting to hear about the possessed computer.

    Since the network was glacially slow and he was able to get stuff done outside of normal business hours, I think his desktop was still functioning as the webserver. So while he was seemingly doing "nothing", his computer was still pretty busy.

    Thanks. I got the joke. It would have probably been funny if it wasn't for the "It's Possessed!" title in bold above the paragraph. That made me anticipate something less subtle like a flashing red and black alternating screen color with an animated "666" bouncing and rotating on the screen whilst Slayer played in an infinite loop.

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to Raptor
    Raptor:
    dkf:
    I remember those Indys. Slow unless what you wanted to do was very fancy graphics. And with IRIX too. Windows was better (and Linux a pleasant dream).

    ...even Windows 3.11 was better than IRIX.

    Funny, as far as I remember Windows 3.x wasn't even an operating system.

    CAPTCHA: modo - I've lost mine

  • Bob (unregistered) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    Funny, as far as I remember Windows 3.x wasn't even an operating system.
    Neither is Windows 7.x.

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