by Richard Evans <infodex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Dec 1, 2007 at 09:53 AM
Tony Harding <ToHard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Heard of it? Hah, I practically wrote it (worked for IBM 1965-70).
1965 - 1995.
>
>I'm still wondering how a new mouse took Windows down for a week?
It installed a new driver that caused a conflict with the main program
I used in my business. It took a week to find a down-level driver that
worked.
You might stop biting my finger and look where I'm pointing. My point,
with this and with the IEFBR14 story was simply that even trivial
things with computers can go unexpectedly awry and the more complex
the code the more likely the failure.
In any event, Victor said it well elsewhere:
>Truth be told this argument is pointless as what you saw on CSI-NY
>probably has no connection what-so-ever with the real NYC transit
>system. There is no junction box anywhere in the subway tunnels that
>will let you hook up a MP3 player to control the system. Rats, YES;
>fancy junction box with blinking light which you can hack into to
>control the subway system..NO. :)
That's all I was saying.
