Yesterday at work my team's tech lead was discussing the judicious use of system beeps. "There was this code that never should get hit, so I put a system beep in there. Just so developers would know," he says. "It drove QA nuts." Followed by discussion of how hilarious it might or might not be to put system beeps in our current codebase, which of course mostly runs in zillions of machines in some datacenter hundreds or thousands of miles away.
The tray eject would really step it up a notch, except I am pretty sure our datacenter machines don't actually have trays.
My previous comment about data centers *definitely* having trays is incorrect. I know of at least one data center (coincidentally related to an item of clothing) which does not have accessible CD trays.
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I love you!
oh yeah...and this made me think of you...
http://xkcd.com/525/
did i mention i love you?
I was trying to find the last post i read (i've developed an extreme distaste for the computer lately)...
at any rate...i saw this and forgot that i'd already told you this...so i'm doing it again...
best use of ssh ever!
Yesterday at work my team's tech lead was discussing the judicious use of system beeps. "There was this code that never should get hit, so I put a system beep in there. Just so developers would know," he says. "It drove QA nuts." Followed by discussion of how hilarious it might or might not be to put system beeps in our current codebase, which of course mostly runs in zillions of machines in some datacenter hundreds or thousands of miles away.
The tray eject would really step it up a notch, except I am pretty sure our datacenter machines don't actually have trays.
Data centers *definitely* have CD trays. In the old days these trays were critical to data center operation.
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/ITAPPMONROBOT.aspx
My previous comment about data centers *definitely* having trays is incorrect. I know of at least one data center (coincidentally related to an item of clothing) which does not have accessible CD trays.
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