This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
Hacking your boss :)
Article: 7389 of alt.hackers From: sandor@laura.xs4all.nl (Sandor Rabe) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Hacking your boss :) Message-ID: 021595204919Rnf0.79b6@laura.xs4all.nl Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 20:49:00 GMT Organization: My first dosbox :) Approved: I still have to come up with a nice remark to put here :) X-Newsreader: Rnf 0.79b6 Lines: 38 Status: RO
I hacked my boss...
I am working on a redo of his dbase programs to keep track of
customer data and orders. Because we were going to use this
database with three persons at the time I had to use the net-
work version. Before I came working there he was on his own.
Well, he still uses his _own_ (very ugly and poorly written)
programs and, even worse, he uses them with his local version
of dbase, wich isn't a network version. AND all his programs
lock the database files. So every time my collegue and I are
confronted with the message "file locked by another". I'm
really getting pissed by this. So I asked him _several times_
to remove the code from his programs that lock the databases.
He wouldn't do it. So today when I got at the office I immedia-
tely started up a dbase box and opened the files that he uses
to lock. Then I iconized the box and opened a second one, on
wich I began to work, alternating between developing and ente-
ring data. The whole day, when my boss wanted to start up _his_
program, it refused to work 'cause I had those files opened all
the time. (I had to do this with a second box 'cause my own
program opens and closes the files only when data is needed,
not all the time). Every time he looked at me with a big ques-
tion mark on his face and then I said; "well, i guess you'll
have to do some coding on _your_ programs if you insist on
using them". Well he did, HE FINALLY DID!!! (he such a dork; he
refuses to start using my program, wich he assigned me to make,
I don't get that, do you?)
I'm sorry this is such a looong post but i had so much fun with
this today i just had to share it with you. Anyway if anyone
knows a company that can use a good database programmer (dbase/
foxpro/anything), give me a post :)
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n++(!) z* ___________________________ sandor@laura.xs4all.nl [dbase sux]