We've all been there...
Jan. 30th, 2008 08:23 pmThis horror from the reliably amusing Daily WTF reminds me of something but I can't quite remember what:
"I was called in by a small company to make some minor changes to their software," Baughn wrote, "mostly language translations. Apparently, the normal maintainer had just up and quit."
"As I entered my temporary office, I got an inkling of why. On the wobbly desk sat a flickering 15" CRT attached to a grimy, Compaq-branded Pentium II. But what made up my mind, however, was this following line."
if (exitStatus==(3-3)) // Sorry, some ov my keys are broken
Oh, wait, I remember: that knackered little WYSE terminal we used to use for a console. The one with the German keyboard and the spacebar with a broken spring on the left-hand side.