• (cs) in reply to Goplat
    Goplat:
    You are correct, but there is still an easy way to write ud.exe: make it a DOS program. The Windows command shell uses the undocumented GetVDMCurrentDirectories API to propagate current directory changes made from DOS programs back to itself.

    This tells me this was expected to work in DOS.

  • OBloodyhell (unregistered) in reply to SPain
    SPain:
    We are an IT Consulting company that contracts with a state run rehab clinic. One day I watched them spend $30k on a teleconferencing setup because they had grant money from the state that they had to spend by 5:00 PM. They never use the damn thing. Doesn't have much to do with the story above but watching them waste my tax dollars in real time was a new experience.

    I worked for a University of Florida office back in the early 80s. We almost always used dot matrix printers, back then, but we bought one of the then-new daisy wheel, letter-quality printers that cost only (gasp!) $600 (they had been costing over 2 grand -- in 1980 dollars -- up to that point). We used it on those rare occasions when we wanted a "professional" looking typed page for correspondence. I'd say that it never typed more than 2000 pages in its entire existence.

    One day, the last workday in June, my boss comes in with a whole bunch of pens, office supplies, and other stuff -- including about 5-10 of the ribbons for the daisy wheel. Given that we hadn't used even one ribbon in the six months we'd had it, I asked why so many ribbons. Well, it was the end of the year -- if you did not spend all your money, then the next year, your budget was cut by the unspent amount. He bought the ribbons (probably $150-300) and those ribbons almost all rotted away in some closet somewhere until they got tossed, since within two years laser printers had become somewhat more common.

    It's not 30k, like your example, but it's in the exact same spirit. It reaffirmed everything my own libertarianism had long suspected... governments love to waste money.

  • Bish (unregistered)

    FRICKEN is like 'could of': it's wrong, despite how it sounds when pronounced with a bad accent. Is it wrong to demand people write using real words?

  • My name (unregistered)

    I have only one thing to say about a situation like this: "I quit"

  • Rhudi (unregistered) in reply to adsfg

    Do a google search for "The Chronicles of George".

  • Real Exam (unregistered)

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  • (nodebb)

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