false authority syndrome

Hecate

http://www.vmyths.com/fas/fas1.cfm

makes for interesting reading; especially in light of recent events

JustHalf

Yeah, we get that on the tech boards a lot, from Gerry. *laughs*

It is shocking. I used to work in PC World, and the amount of mistakes I heard other people there say - sheesh. Eg, "yeah, he got word. It's wordperfect, but it's word."

People have to understand that sales people are not there to give you advice, they are there to sell you things.

Hobbes

heh heh, reminds me of an job I had.

I wrote this program which would intercept Printer calls to an invoice printer and then take that output and also generate an EDIFACT document which could then be sent to PostGEM. (offtopic: The Edifact was the biggest waste I have ever come across in a program, basically I had to convert a text file to edifact which would go through a program which would convert it into EDI afair and then just modem transfer it a remote server. The amount of wasted work+time to do this was just incredible).

The program worked in a fashion but wasn't realible enough and I dropped it and worked on a windows GUI version instead (which was really cool).

About a month or so later my boss calls me in wanting to know if I had installed Spy software. I say no (worried)and ask why and he points to my program on the unix server.

He had thought I had created some kind of spy software because I had called the software "ghost". Never looked at the code or the massive remarks at the top of the code explaining in detail what it was doing. Never checked the system to see that it wasn't actually even running.

He told me not to call my programs with suspect names again.

Paladin

Yes, all the pros who make virii, trojans, spyware etc. call them by name like virus.exe and spyware.com trojan.vbs and so on, just so people wouldnt accidently confuse them with innocent things like annakournikova.js and so on.