Getting any information is like pulling teeth (a long, difficult and sometimes painful process). The whole week I made the mistake of repeating my temporary password back to him using "Bang" instead of "exclamation point" to describe "!". Each time I got the stink eye and a lecture. He finally cornered me and demanded that I explain why I keep saying that. I had to tell him: "I have no idea. I have been using Bang since High School and I know other people that say it as well. Maybe it's a HAM radio thing, Morse Code, maybe it's in the wikipedia." Well to make a short story shorter, it is in the wiki, and I picked up in my High School computer classes.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Bang!
I got the VPN to work from home today. I am very happy about this, as it has taken a week of going to the CTO and asking for help. Why is it that so many IT people make me feel like a dentist?
Getting any information is like pulling teeth (a long, difficult and sometimes painful process). The whole week I made the mistake of repeating my temporary password back to him using "Bang" instead of "exclamation point" to describe "!". Each time I got the stink eye and a lecture. He finally cornered me and demanded that I explain why I keep saying that. I had to tell him: "I have no idea. I have been using Bang since High School and I know other people that say it as well. Maybe it's a HAM radio thing, Morse Code, maybe it's in the wikipedia." Well to make a short story shorter, it is in the wiki, and I picked up in my High School computer classes.
Getting any information is like pulling teeth (a long, difficult and sometimes painful process). The whole week I made the mistake of repeating my temporary password back to him using "Bang" instead of "exclamation point" to describe "!". Each time I got the stink eye and a lecture. He finally cornered me and demanded that I explain why I keep saying that. I had to tell him: "I have no idea. I have been using Bang since High School and I know other people that say it as well. Maybe it's a HAM radio thing, Morse Code, maybe it's in the wikipedia." Well to make a short story shorter, it is in the wiki, and I picked up in my High School computer classes.
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i say "bang" for exclamation points in passwords too. got it from my freshman programming class.
I almost never use "bang" but it's a standard UNIX term. If I remember correctly, shorthand in the shell for whatever the last command run.
I just learned about bang too. And I AM a computer person. i think it's different that somebody questioned you on it. And they're a computer person.
How did you get that tag? It looks Arabic or something.
Nice.
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