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Probably e in Switzerland.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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pkfox wrote: how is at the bar table ?
I could not come up with anything to fit table in. I googled synonyms, types of tables and what not. I thought of multiplication tables, periodic tables, HTML tables. In the end, barely settled to bar as representation for table because google says it is similar.
e is Euler's who is Swiss.
I believe trendy editor after Swiss man's number was too cool to let go of.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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E can mean anything from a drug to a vitamin ! it certainly doesn't indicate Euler no matter wher he came from
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: YAUT
I already have a fun one for that. Just like this one, it is too cool to let go of.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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First I sign on early in the morning in the US Central time zone and see the puzzle hasn't been solved yet. Great!
So I'm thinking: Einstein was a Swiss Patent Clerk - what is his number? Something related to the speed of light. In mph or kph?
A bar can be a pub - so "pub" is certainly part of the answer...
As is often the case, I was lost in the forest on this one...
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Same here. I rarely solve these. I always have an answer which is with completely alternate system.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Well, this was way too cryptic for me. I could only get in.
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Well it certainly was not Ximenean
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Been there, done that! I think it's time i got the t-shirt.
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Nobody will remember:
- Your salary
- Your fancy title
- How "busy" you were
- How stressed you were
- How many hours you worked
People will remember:
- Your commit that caused a production issue.
And I did just that this morning, immortality is mine!
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you plagiarized that to an extent.
Decades ago I worked in a shop that had a rule - you shut down the wrong server, you buy lunch for the team. There I am rebooting my workstation, except I was logged in to the main server with 2k+ users on it.... yeah, I bought lunch.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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A friend of mine was dogged by slow Internet, well below the service levels he paid for. Since it was DSL based he figured it was phone company nonsense, and was an ongoing battle with the phone company over his service. He couldn't or wouldn't switch to cable, although I don't remember why.
Anyway, eventually it comes up in conversation that he has a Windows 2008 Server machine that is Internet facing, running out of his home network.
*headdesk*
As soon as he said that, I was like "here's how to fix your Internet"
Sure enough, half the network was basically a botnet for Kevin only knows who.
He doesn't run servers out of his home anymore.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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honey the codewitch wrote: He doesn't run servers out of his home anymore. Maybe he just shouldn't run server anymore, period
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Correct.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I entered kill 0 (instead of kill 9) on a SunOS server one time and it failed to come back up. The problem is it was a core server for a large number of administrative people. Turns out it had previously corrupted the file system. It was a week before it was available again.
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Also decades ago I worked for a rather large broking company. Sysadmin could not work out who owned a particular server (there were a lot of servers) so he shut it down to see who screamed. It turned out to be a company that had been sold off 4 years before and moved 2 floors down.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Ah, the 'ol scream test. An oldie but a goodie. But, potentially career limiting if the wrong person screams.
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I've done it more than once. The screams usually come pretty quickly.
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I've had to do this as well since no one seems to know what their resources are.
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One chap I was called to help around 25 years ago explained to me that every time he pressed a key on his keyboard his computer would restart.
So I went over to his desk and observed what was happening and yes the computer did shut down every time he pressed a key on the keyboard.
Now my Sherlock Holmes senses kicked in as I noticed that he also had a folder resting on his lap.
Every time he leaned forward to press a key, on the keyboard, the corner of the folder pressed the restart button on his computer...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 26-Aug-22 3:43am.
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I once deleted ALL of the car loans for FL because someone changed the "mechanical" terminal Switch,
and I was NO LONGER on the DEV box.
OUCH!
A month later, someone else did a different state. And I patched the operating systems for production to block the command (renamed it to another command we would NEVER type accidentally)...
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I accidently tested a database shutdown script I was developing on the PROD system, but who hasn't done that?
One day I found out that a DEC AlphaServer 1000 has a switch which kills power if the case is opened while the system is running. I mean, WTF? Definitely over-engineered. All I was doing was determining whether or not there were any spare RAM slots. : sheesh : At least that was a DEV system.
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