Re: informix and oracle (fwd)
In article <68th3a$ebf@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@ns1.bloomberg.com> writes >Joe Lumbley wins the award for being the first to guess the nature of the >bug that caused me to erroneously post that I had had 125 years of database >experience. There follows his message and my reply explaining the TRUE >cause of that unfortunate error. And to those of you with little >imagination, no it was not just a simple typo, after 125 years I no longer >make those! Damn, there it goes again, I will fix that program >real-soon-now! > >Art S. Kagel, kagel@bloomberg.com > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:51:25 -0500 (EST) >From: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.com> >To: Joe Lumbley <jlumbley@netcom.com> >Subject: Re: informix and oracle > >On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Joe Lumbley wrote: > >> In article <34B14C0C.2963@bloomberg.com> you wrote: >> <snip> >> >> : I have been working with database server products for over 125 years. I >> ^^^ >> C'mon Art. I don't have any problems with inflating a resume a little, >> but I'll bet even a hiring manager would have problems believing this... ;) >> >> Reminds me of a joke I heard. A 39-year-old attorney dies and somehow ends >> up going to heaven. He gets to the gate and starts arguing with St. Peter. >> "St. Peter....there's been a big mistake. I'm too young to die." >> St. Peter looks at his book, then at the attorney, and says "Says here that >> you were supposed to live until 67. It's true that you don't **look** >> 67, but...." >> >> "Well, there's the problem St. Peter. Somebody screwed up my age. Look at >> me. I'm only 39. How'd you guys figure I was 67?" >> >> "We just added up your time slips." > >Something similar happened here! I drop my experience so often that I've >had to create a program to auto enter it for me. Well, to make a short >story longer, the newest release of experience.c had a bug that added up >my bug reports to calculate my years of experience, and, well, there were >all of those 7.1x reports, and so, ... :-) > >Art S. Kagel, kagel@bloomberg.com > > I hate tot think what mine we be, Sep-Dec 1994 9am-1am 7 days a week (116hrs!). I won the timesheet competition with one week of 122 hours (vs my collegues 121! Ah Poor baby, you lose!) when I did a few 2am's and one 4am!. I lived a 10 minutes walk away from work...thoses were the days, up am 8, show/breakfast and in for 9, work until 1am, go home, bung washing in the machine,eat/watch TV whilst waiting for it to finish and in bed by 4am..Maggie Thather only need 4-5 hours sleep why do you ned more?..that was the life... -- David Williams Maintainer of the Informix FAQ Primary site (Beta Version) http://www.smooth1.demon.co.uk Official site http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html I see you standin', Standin' on your own, It's such a lonely place for you, For you to be If you need a shoulder, Or if you need a friend, I'll be here standing, Until the bitter end... So don't chastise me Or think I, I mean you harm... All I ever wanted Was for you To know that I care