FW: cygwin-1.dll long-time bug
Dave Korn
dave.korn@artimi.com
Wed Apr 19 13:46:00 GMT 2006
On 19 April 2006 13:59, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> On 19 April 2006 04:44, Eric Blake wrote:
>>
>>> According to Dave Korn on 4/18/2006 12:38 PM:
>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>> in microsoft's QA dept.... ;)
>>>
>>> They have one? What are the job qualifications to become a member of that
>>> dept, I wonder? I bet even a hippo could apply...
>>
>> Yes, actually! Most of their testing is done by dropping hippos on
>> software and seeing what happens. Usually it breaks.
>> Then they ship it!
>
> This reminds me of the actual testing DEC did for PDP-8 and PDP-11
> machines: they dropped a machine on the concrete floor from a height of
> precisely 2 meters while it was performing some computation. If it
> continued working at that point and produced correct results, they shipped
> it. Eerie, isn't it?
That's a great technique, I can highly recommend it. Back when I was in
school, we used to test the RM380Zs by dropping them out of first-floor
windows.
Usually they broke the concrete when they hit, not themselves.
> Oh, and in the words of ESR: "software is largely a service industry
> operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a
> manufacturing industry". Just seemed relevant here, somehow... :-)
Yeh, but then again, also in the words of ESR: "I will find a way to make
you regret it. Watch your step"
;)
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/bruce-perens-dead
cheers,
DaveK
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