That has been my favorite hacker lore story since I first heard it decades ago.
averagedrunk
joined 1 year ago
Agreed.
Theoretically they could still be using it, but it's pretty doubtful. It was just a GUI to run a set of scripts for an old set of programs that should have been retired before XP came out.
I was at an MSP at the time. One of our customers had stuff that wouldn't install on anything after Win98, was looking for a bunch of hardware that no longer exists, and all the associated DLLs had to be registered manually. I created it because I was tired of doing it all by hand.
My assumption would be the guys who were there at the same time as me used it (I know they did actually), but a year after I left the whole bullpen turned over and I doubt they used it after that. They lost a pile of clients. Even if that hadn't happened, if they're still supporting 25 year old software with 15 year old scripts run by a 12 year old and poorly hacked together front end by a guy who was definitely not a programmer at the time (and barely is now) then they get whatever they deserve.
Absolutely not. I left that job not long after. It officially became someone else's problem.
I assume they're not using it anymore. The company was purchased last year so I have to think that they have problems with other code that makes no sense.
#The following code does nothing, but if removed the whole program crashes
-Me, circa 2011
God wouldn't let you get malware on his chosen OS.
I will be forgotten by the world, but eventually the universe will remember as I'm turned back into star stuff.
I am more concerned that she's a 'viral girlfriend'. I had one of them years ago.
They all but abandoned that years ago. They ain't implementing shit on it.
Plus it makes you more confident and better looking.
ChimeraOS and HoloISO. I haven't heard of Bazzite but I'm going to have to go look now in case HoloISO gets abandoned. Should be an easy replacement.
I've made it two decades in IT and related fields by searching for answers using Google. I accidentally took my laziness, love of automation, and ability to Google and became an SRE. Then I accidentally became a senior software engineer because the director on that side of the house liked my initiative and was sure my skills would translate. I protested but got a substantial bump to do it.
I'm failing upwards by abusing stack overflow and search engines.