• (cs) in reply to cwalken@twitter is funniest thing ever today
    cwalken@twitter is funniest thing ever today:
    TRWTF is that once again we're continuing to propagate the whole 'haw haw girls in IT are stupid' mentality which makes us look like a bunch of knuckle dragging, soft palmed, sticky bedroom poster winners. This story wouldn't have even been posted if it wasn't a girl (or horse-ladyboy hybrid) running.
    You're trolling, right? Of course it would have. "Leah" could have been changed to "Lenny" and "she" to "he", and it would have still been only sort-of-funny because it's missing a really good punch line.
  • (cs)

    Oh, BTW: I suggest a footrace between "business-attire trackgirl" and "Irish girl" to determine who gets to be the dominant TDWTF meme.

  • Fungineer (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    Oh, BTW: I suggest a footrace between "business-attire trackgirl" and "Irish girl" to determine who gets to be the dominant TDWTF meme.

    I'd let either dominate me.

  • Da' Man (unregistered) in reply to Shnebby
    Shnebby:
    The real WTF is he is acting like military computer techs are going to get a soap party.
    "Soldier! I! Want! To! See! You! Missing! Your! SLA! Down! In! Iraq! OFF YOU GO!
  • Harold (unregistered) in reply to David Emery
    David Emery:
    Obviously, tape is both slow and sequential, so the sort algorithm had to be carefully crafted to read/write as little as possible, and -never- roll back the tape unless absolutely necessary.

    dave

    Tapes weren't slow. Some were, but a streaming tape could often out perform a DASD. The trick was to handle it at streaming speed. If you couldn't handle the data that fast, then the tape had to stop. Stopping and starting was bad. rewinding the tape was worse, because you had to do several stops and starts.

    And to whomever thinks they can date this from the technologies, Tape robots have been around decades before the 90s, and old disks were often kept in the machine rooms and used for a long time after the new ones were around. Especially in government.

  • Peets (unregistered) in reply to Deke
    Deke:
    hoping to have the dream where he's an eskimo

    Frozen winds began to blow?

    No, blanket misalignment causing exposure in more ways than one.

  • (cs) in reply to AC

    I haven't heard the term DASD since... Great, 7 more hairs on my head just spontaneously went gray.

  • (cs) in reply to Harold
    Harold:
    David Emery:
    Obviously, tape is both slow and sequential, so the sort algorithm had to be carefully crafted to read/write as little as possible, and -never- roll back the tape unless absolutely necessary.

    dave

    Tapes weren't slow. Some were, but a streaming tape could often out perform a DASD. The trick was to handle it at streaming speed. If you couldn't handle the data that fast, then the tape had to stop. Stopping and starting was bad. rewinding the tape was worse, because you had to do several stops and starts.

    And to whomever thinks they can date this from the technologies, Tape robots have been around decades before the 90s, and old disks were often kept in the machine rooms and used for a long time after the new ones were around. Especially in government.

    When I was a kid, I was occasionally allowed to help change the tapes on the DEC-10 at the poly where my mum was a lecturer at the time. This was sometime in the late 70s and I was under 10 at the time. On occasions she'd have to go into work unexpectedly during out-of-term time and couldn't get a sitter and would have to take me along, and to stop me getting bored she came up with the bright idea of dumping me on the typing-pool girls who drove the card-punch machines and having them let me play in a corner with a few blank punch cards and a spare terminal.

    This early formative experience led to a life-long interest in girls, as well as computers :)

  • Stu (unregistered)

    I liked this one for some reason (easily amused)

  • that one guy (unregistered) in reply to amischiefr
    amischiefr:
    that one guy:
    JamesQMurphy:
    The real conversation between Sacha and the mainframe guru:

    Guru: It's just a faulty tape-mount issue. All you'll have to do is change this parameter in the JCL file and re-submit the job for execution.

    Sacha: Ok, no problem.

    Guru: Hey, who's working in the NOP tonight?

    Sacha: The new girl, Leah. Why?

    Guru: Wanna have some fun?

    EXACTLY! I remember doing similar when I was in the military.

    We once sent a new private on a trouble call to room 120 with the problem title "User having problems removing his hard drive". Room 120 was a mens bathroom.

    Our favorite was to send the FNG out for wireless cable. One smart-ass came back with a fiber patch cable. There's no wires in it, so it's wireless :D

  • csm (unregistered) in reply to Buffled
    Buffled:
    DaveK:
    RogerC:
    Osno:
    So? Where's the WTF? That the tapes are too far away and this girl didn't bring more than one in the last, say, 10 runs?
    Military intelligence.
    [citation]
    The real WTF is you people who leave in all the extra crap in the cut-n-paste URL. I'm referring to: &start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

    What, you mean cargo-cult link copy-pasting? Dammit this is why we need to have better hyperlink standards!

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