topic Re: Good Evening NI - Just saw Christian Altenbach on the forum in BreakPoint

Good Morning NI - I'm here..

Ray.R — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:50:49 GMT

Hi everybody,

I looked at the list of rencent logins and noticed that Ben is as crazy as I am to login on Easter Sunday morning... 😄

I thought maybe this would be a nice thread to simply chat and not necessarily talk about anything related to work or coding..
A real place for a quick sip of coffee or any other warm liquids.. 😉
A place to let brain cells recover for the crazyness of our daily lives.. 😄

And to congratulate Molly on achieving many (all??) of our requests..

Thanks Molly.. And please forward our gratitude to your entire team!!

😄 😄 😄

Ray (aka. JLV)

Re: Good Morning NI - I'm here..

altenbach — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:50:09 GMT

Well, the presence of Ben in the list of recent logins is not surprising, I think his name is hardcoded into the forum page. 😉

I am more worried about blue users such as shahina being active on easter sunday morning. 😮

Staying on the easter topic: An old tradition of programmers is to hide a few surprises inside the code that can be activated by an obscure combination of keys or other mechanisms. (One example would be the game built into excel. These are called Easter Eggs.

Has any of you ever buried any easter eggs in distributed LabVIEW code? 🙂

Re: Good Morning NI - I'm here..

tst — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:09:02 GMT

Actually, no.
But I have a more interesting question - Are there any easter eggs in LV (annoying bugs don't count)?

Re: Good Morning NI - I'm here..

Ben — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:51:35 GMT

Hi All,

I think the exchange gave up trying to log me out.

One of the developers I work with put an ester egg in one of the in-house applications we use to track our time.

He lets you play his version of "Mine Sweeper".

Ben

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nd — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:39:04 GMT

Curious,
Does anyone know what happens to the developers of these Easter Eggs, once the company finds out who did it?
I would suspect that in most cases they get fired.. 😞

i love this site...

http://www.eeggs.com/

Re: Good Morning NI - I'm here..

Ray.R — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:55:14 GMT

We were tempted to put a version of Packman embedded into the code.
It would popup on the operator screen whenever the station would crash (loose heartbeat).

Of course... it never happened.. but I did hear rumors of some nasty messages going to the screen if certian events took place. The message was encrypted as part of several cryptic routines... Of course, that was just rumors going around... Never saw any messages or seen the code attributed to it. And the person who supposidly created it was no longer there by the time I showed up..

The only egg I ever left was to bypass the login script that a coop student placed on her PC, change her password and change the attributes of the files. 😄
It was rediculously simple.. A login script activated within the autoexec.bat file.

JLV

Re: Good Morning NI - I'm here..

Ray.R — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:07:10 GMT

Looks like tst was a busy-bee answering all those questions today!!

😉

Re: Good Morning NI - I'm here..

AndrewAtNI — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:07:50 GMT

@tst wrote:
Actually, no.
But I have a more interesting question - Are there any easter eggs in LV (annoying bugs don't count)?

It's not really an "easter egg," but LabVIEW 1.0 (Macintosh-only) had greyscale pictures of the LabVIEW team in the "About" dialog.

Re: Good Morning NI - I'm here..

Ray.R — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:53:43 GMT

There's nothing wrong with embedding the development team (a picture of) into the sw.. 😉

How's everybody today? What a week.. Actually, what a year so far..
It's been busy.. .. and busy is good...
😄

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spaceman_spif — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:44:58 GMT

Kind of along the lines of people who develop Easter Eggs, but I always wondered if most viruses were developed by the people who write anti-virus software. Think about it - you go home, create a virus, send it out. Go in to work, hear about the new virus, suggest you may know how to handle it (since you wrote it! Ha!), then you create the cure. Your boss thinks you're the king of anti-virus code and you get a raise and a promotion.

Talk about job security!

As long as you don't get caught, that is...

Re: Good Morning NI - I'm here..

Ray.R — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:24:32 GMT

Spaceman...

I've often wondered that myself.

Can you imagine if the anti-virus sw also created them?? 😉
Is there an independent panel that watches who's doing what? Oh yeah.. I think there is... or "is there"??
(imagine Homer S. asking himself that question.... then seeing a donut....)

.... hummmm .... donut....

.... --what were we talking about?? -- ...

😄

Re: Good Morning NI - I'm here..

Ray.R — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:46:56 GMT

Now that CC has a "skewed" Enthusiats' List....

How are people recognized as reaching 1000 posts??

Is it 1000 posts? or is it 1000 actual contributions based on his definition??

😉

Re: Good Morning NI - I'm here..

chilly_charly — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:51:15 GMT

@JoeLabView wrote:
Now that CC has a "skewed" Enthusiats' List....
How are people recognized as reaching 1000 posts??
Is it 1000 posts? or is it 1000 actual contributions based on his definition?? 😉

Come on Jewelry !
I thought there was an agreement on the fact that off-the-line discussions should not be counted has actual replies. Some of us have even been complaining on this matter ! Remember when JPD was angry ?..

...Please guys stop abusing and biasing the rating system by congratulating each other with 5* for rather frivolous matters...

or more recently when tsunami and Ben were chatting on the freshly disclosed BreakPoint ?..

... Not that I mind, but speaking of the list, this board will probably cause the numbers on that list to go completely haywire and render it somewhat inaccurate...
I was really hoping these posting would not count in our totals....

But may be I have been too directive here. So... I'll wait now for you ALL to decide which threads should be removed from the reply count. Since the operation is done programmatically, it's not a big issue, just a matter of seconds, to optimize the operation.
And while we are here, I wish to have your advices on two other subjects :
1/ should the stars be also counted separately ?
2/ Do you think that people that have posted more than 50 replies (and even 100) that are in fact questions should be counted as Enthusiasts ?

That way, II'll feel less guilty when reading your sour comments... 😄

CC

Re: Good Morning NI - I'm here..

Ben — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:21:50 GMT

I prefer the comment in the Breakpoint stay out of the count.

"
So... I'll wait now for you ALL to decide which threads should be removed from the reply count. Since the operation is done programmatically, it's not a big issue, just a matter of seconds, to optimize the operation.
And while we are here, I wish to have your advices on two other subjects :
1/ should the stars be also counted separately ?
2/ Do you think that people that have posted more than 50 replies (and even 100) that are in fact questions should be counted as Enthusiasts ?

"

I also would urge that we "should not tease the animals". If your list superior to the "Official" list that Molly's team was going to give us, then your are stuff forever!

On a side not you do raise an interesting point in the point re: # Q's. Good Q. There have been a few times people have started discusions by posting Q's. Altenbach has done this a number of times. Others have done the same. Just starting a thread or posting a follow-up is not a good way to distinguish this. I would also like to see more more of us starting threads along the line of "Did you know you could do ....?"

Ben

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chilly_charly — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 03:45:19 GMT

Thanks for your comments, Ben !
I'll try first to develop a bit more the later point: I think we all agree about the fact that an interesting question can be more usefull than a number of answers. This is why I appreciate the possibility to star rate questions. On another hand some users NEVER gave any reply, and are strict consumers on this forum, never sharing their knowledge, never bringing anything to the community... 😞
Should they be counted as Enthusiasts ? Asked that way, my question as only one obvious answer : NO ! However, my own opinion is more balanced : The answer depends on the definition that we give to "Enthusiast" : is an Enthusiast simply somebody who love LabVIEW, and use it on every possible occasion ? or is the idea of sharing absolutely imbedded in the Enthusiast definition ? and is the idea of expertise connected to the Enthusiast definition ?
We are back here to previous discussions/posts that are worth to be read again... but that's not an answer to my original question : how should we consider LV users that never give any help to others ?

CC

Re: Good Morning NI - I'm here..

Ray.R — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:54:05 GMT

Hey mon ami, le CC... tu n'as rien compris.. 😉

It rhymed.. so i wrote it.. 😄

The contributions as you have it set up is okay.
Sorry if my post sounded like a complaint.. You're gonna complare my to.. euh... some female contributor who shall remain nameless.. 😉

Actually, my question was and is a valid one. There are "congrats for x times 1000" posts. Do these posts count as contributions towards that? In fact, without all this chatting, how would BreakPoint have come to life?
Think about it... Our hundreds of blah..blahs.. have had an impact on the forum, plus given us a chance to get to know each other better. 😄

As for the number of posts that count towards "Enthusiats", we can simply count contributions.
As for the number of stars, I'd count them all. After all, think of all the good answers you, Ben, Dennis, and (maybe JP) have contributed and went starless... I don't think stars are that meaningful anyway..

As for defining who / what is a newly defined Enthusiast... that's a tough one. A simple measure is something like 100 posts (contributions), for instance.. ....hummm....

.... humm .....

....

....

😐

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spaceman_spif — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 17:12:42 GMT

Then again, some things shouldn't be shared. Like this nasty intestinal virus my kids gave me.

Speaking of which...maybe that should make a "Proven irregular"???

Re: Good Morning NI - I'm here..

Ray.R — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:38:24 GMT

there's a thought..

Active Regular = Enthusiast

Where's the mug???

any mugs left???

or did JP take them all... probably traded-in his stars for one 😉

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becktho — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:28:31 GMT

Hi all

I want to add some thoughts to the discussion about Enthusiast:

I agree with those who say that an Enthusiast should share his knowledge but I think it's a bad idea to say Active Regular = Enthusiast. Because one can post as many questions as are needed to get "Active" and one also can login as often as it needs to be "Regular".

I'm of the opinion that also social boards should not be counted. What makes one an Enthusiast if he/she just talks about music insturments or model railroad (I don't want to blame you for that)?

Thomas

Re: Good Morning NI - I'm here..

Ray.R — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:44:55 GMT

Wait..

you mean that people who ask questions also contribute to being active?

interesting..

Well...