Gyro Gearloose wrote:I was the schmuck who got an earful from the customers on a daily basis.
Forgot about this one.
I vaguely remember you fooling around with their jurassic age computer system and having an amusing error message popping up on every CS people's screen.
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. -John Steinbeck
Correct! It was an AS/400 and a bunch of PC workstations. By the incredible hacking skill of pressing ESC twice I got into a AS/400 menu of some kind and I was able to reboot any workstation and send broadcast messages. I thought this was all great fun. I remember there was one loudmouth there I didn't like, so in the middle of a customer call I'd reboot his workstation. LOL
Of course this had to end, I was told that what I did wasn't possible and I should stop doing it. How's that for corporate logic.
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Gyro Gearloose wrote:By the incredible hacking skill of pressing ESC twice I got into a AS/400 menu of some kind and I was able to reboot any workstation and send broadcast messages.
Wow! The acronym should stand for Unbelievably Poor Security...
I remember there was one loudmouth there I didn't like, so in the middle of a customer call I'd reboot his workstation. LOL
That must've been a thrilling experience for this guy!
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. -John Steinbeck
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. -John Steinbeck
Gyro Gearloose wrote:I thought this was all great fun. I remember there was one loudmouth there I didn't like, so in the middle of a customer call I'd reboot his workstation. LOL
LOL! That is funny. I have similar good memories of a sales team and a sales jerk that was always yelling at me for his errors... Needless to say he soon realized that the database was at my mercy as was him getting paid in full if his records were not entered correct...
Gate and Array Logic for Floppy is the actual name.
Have you figured it out by now?
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. -John Steinbeck
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. -John Steinbeck
You put it in a 1541 and it makes the drive behave like there's a disk in the drive so it makes all the noise and activity of a drive without needing media?
Damn it, tell us!
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.