From ED_STANNARD.parti@ecunet.org Wed Apr 1 11:11:13 1998 Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:46:18 -0500 (EST) From: ED STANNARD To: hfarkas@ims.advantis.com Subject: TO ALL MY FRIENDS INTERESTED IN BOTH COMPUTERS AND BEATLES (1) Special to Henry (so who's Jesus on Sunday?): >YESTERDAY > >Yesterday, >All those backups seemed a waste of pay. >Now my database has gone away. >Oh I believe in yesterday. >Suddenly, >There's not half the files there used to be, >And there's a milestone >hanging over me >The system crashed so suddenly. >I pushed something wrong >What it was I could not say. >Now all my data's gone >and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay. >Yesterday, >The need for back-ups seemed so far away. >I knew my data was all here to stay, >Now I believe in yesterday. > > Eleanor Rigby > ------------- > >Eleanor Rigby >Sits at the keyboard >And waits for a line on the screen >Lives in a dream >Waits for a signal >Finding some code >That will make the machine do some more. >What is it for? >All the lonely users, where do they all come from? >All the lonely users, why does it take so long? >Guru MacKenzie >Typing the lines of a program that no one will run; >Isn't it fun? >Look at him working, >Munching some chips as he waits for the code to compile; >It takes a while... >All the lonely users, where do they all come from? >All the lonely users, why does it take so long? >Eleanor Rigby >Crashes the system and loses 6 hours of work; >Feels like a jerk. >Guru MacKenzie >Wiping the crumbs off the keys as he types in the code; >Nothing will load. >All the lonely users, where do they all come from? >All the lonely users, why does it take so long? > Something > --------- > >Something in the way it fails, >Defies the algorithm's logic! >Something in the way it coredumps... >I don't want to leave it now >I'll fix this problem somehow >Somewhere in the memory I know, >A pointer's got to be corrupted. >Stepping in the debugger will show me... >I don't want to leave it now >I'm too close to leave it now >You're asking me can this code go? >I don't know, I don't know... >What sequence causes it to blow? >I don't know, I don't know... >Something in the initializing code? >And all I have to do is think of it! >Something in the listing will show me... >I don't want to leave it now >I'll fix this tonight I vow! Peace, Ed "Never doubt that a small group of dedicated individuals can change the world ... indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead < Episcopal Life > < New York > < 800-334-7626x6107* > < H: 203-483-0502 > *NOTE NEW EXTENSION!!! DIRECT LINE IS 212-716-6107!! REPLY TO EDSJR@ECUNET.ORG, A SHORTENED FORM OF THE ABOVE ADDRESS