lol... sounds like a posting from thedailywtf.com....
David Tinker wrote: > Some time ago I read something similar that was for real. A dude wrote > a utility to crack the password protection on spreadsheets for an > early version of Excel (or maybe it was zip files, whatever). It was > almost instant and his customers felt ripped off. So he put in a > little busy comand line anamation and made it take several seconds :) > > On 7/4/07, Fritz Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The return of BOFH for the new millenium ............ >> >> >> On 04/07/07, Fritz Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >> >>> The title says it all; I've been greatly amused today reading his column >>> >> in the java performance tuning newsletter... but can it possibly be real? It >> reads like a combination of Dilbert and Adrian Mole's diary.. for instance: >> >>> June 6. It's not a myth. Well not any more. Did you ever hear about the >>> >> enterprise system which the developers put in pauses so that they could take >> them out later to make the system faster? Actually, the way I hear it is >> that they anticipated that as the system scaled up, the load would increase >> and slow the system down, so they put in configurable sleep statements that >> slowed the system when they first deployed. Then, when it started getting >> loaded, they wound down the sleeps. Apparently, they kept the system running >> at roughly the same performance even after it went to full company-wide >> release. I always thought this was yet another urban myth. But now I've >> implemented the myth. Yes, my code tweaks way exceeded my 50% target >> speedup, so I added in sleep code. That way, next time I come to tune, I can >> either speedup the system real quick (and look so good), or take my time and >> doodle. Had to put the sleeps into the monitoring code so that no one else >> finds them, but that's good, one nice central place. >> >>> ..that's from one of his earlier entries. I guess I should be thankful >>> >> that this doesn't sound like anything I've encountered yet. >> >>> Does anyone else know anything more about this guy? >>> >>> Fritz >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Forum For the ctjug home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
