nixy Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 and you dare to call yourself technical you lazy sod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zummertor Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 and you dare to call yourself technical you lazy sod. I don't and neither does anyone I work with, although that assumption works well for me , oh and yes I am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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stanski Posted August 1, 2008 Author Share Posted August 1, 2008 Oh all you closet geeks are appearing in the daylight on the forum!! If I told you all my erm coc* ups! I would need my own personal forum!!! But when I worked on Honeywell Mainframes (there old fart told you) I had to rewrite all the code for a certain high street insurance company to standardise it - so when it fell on its backside is had an auto recover point and also it would be easy to see where it failed so hopefully quickly to fix - well last step was an emergency procedure for restoring the whole program back to before it ran just in case. Took me 12 months to do the whole companies programs - 1 program I had missed off a skip to the end step and well it ran for an hour (it was processing customer invoices) then promptly went to the emergency restore step at the end and restored everything back and the next job ran, rest of schedule finished that night - no one knew this had happend - no failures- the phones were ringing for a very long time the next day and took them a whole days manual paper processing to get everthing aligned again!! Does'nt sound like much these days but 800 branches countrywide .... I was popular then! Ah happy dayes Way I look at it - if you never make mistakes you never learn - I should be right up there with Einstein by now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrLizard Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 Oh all you closet geeks are appearing in the daylight on the forum!! If I told you all my erm coc* ups! I would need my own personal forum!!! But when I worked on Honeywell Mainframes (there old fart told you) I had to rewrite all the code for a certain high street insurance company to standardise it - so when it fell on its backside is had an auto recover point and also it would be easy to see where it failed so hopefully quickly to fix - well last step was an emergency procedure for restoring the whole program back to before it ran just in case. Took me 12 months to do the whole companies programs - 1 program I had missed off a skip to the end step and well it ran for an hour (it was processing customer invoices) then promptly went to the emergency restore step at the end and restored everything back and the next job ran, rest of schedule finished that night - no one knew this had happend - no failures- the phones were ringing for a very long time the next day and took them a whole days manual paper processing to get everthing aligned again!! Does'nt sound like much these days but 800 branches countrywide .... I was popular then! Ah happy dayes Way I look at it - if you never make mistakes you never learn - I should be right up there with Einstein by now thats excellent m8, i managed to delete my companies entire active directory a few weeks after starting, suffice to say i now know a lot about AD and restoration processes I was also popular, My MD said we are only at home to mr c*ck up once, youve been here 2 weeks and this is your once Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronzee Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 Lol, I wonder why I'm not an engineer anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronzee Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 I do admire you guys though. Unless you've worked in the industry most folks probably wouldn't appreciate often the hours you guys work, and what's involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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