Takin a dump

[blas]

I'm not a very techy person, but this one made me laugh so hard I cried.

I never knew this, but when the machines fail at work, they say "Physical Dump of Memory" and then shut themselves off.

Ok it probably really isn't that funny. But I think it is. I called over a room runner and said "My machine took a dump!"

[earl colby pottinger]

The proper term

. I called over a room runner and said "My machine took a dump!"

Is doing a 'Core Dump', comes from the time computers used core memory.

[lordlundar]

Okay, you have got to tell that to someone who has no clue about computers and have a camera handy. I so want to see their face.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Okay, you have got to tell that to someone who has no clue about computers and have a camera handy. I so want to see their face.

I'd tell them to get a shovel and a garbage can.

[wagegoth]

I'm so old I've seen a Wang take a core dump. That's both sallacious and gross.

[Geek King]

I'm so old I've seen a Wang take a core dump. That's both sallacious and gross.

Did your Wang hang during the dump? Did it have two dongles? Did you try to plug it into a SCSI unit?

<Must...stop...self...>

[Acolyte]

Computers are so dirty, apparently...

And that's not even counting 'The Internet Is For Porn'.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Good thing you didn't give the computer an enema . . . that really would have been messy.

Of course I've never seen one wearing Depends but I guess there's a first time for everything.

[gunsage]

"My machine took a dump!"

"Prolly cuz you been feedin' it too many o' dem derr CDs."

[UncleImpy]

Even better when you 'send the dump to a senior engineer to analyze it'.

Eew.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Even better when you 'send the dump to a senior engineer to analyze it'.

Eew.

Crappy job.

[Lingering Grin]

Computers are so dirty, apparently...

Oh you have no idea. Ever done any coding?


There's things in coding called classes, that have parents and children. They're just different ways of storing and accessing variables at the right time. However... it gets a little weird.


These code structures have public and private variables. Which child classes are allowed to use both the public and private variables of any parent class above them in the code.

So, to put it how one of my teachers once did:

"This is when code just gets weird, because you have children touching they're parents and grandparents privates".

[gunsage]

YES! That is an awesome analogy! I'm a programmer and I ditto that.

[Lingering Grin]

YES! That is an awesome analogy! I'm a programmer and I ditto that.

Programmers have dirty, dirty, little minds

[gunsage]

Apparently, you have no idea what I used to call my classes.