Humor Music Humour

[AlonW]

 

[Tenor Viol]

IT related jokes are always groan worthy... and I must resist being pedantic.... Us IT bods do have a sense of humour, honest...

 

[Colin the Bear]

There's a whole other joke about being decimal or binary.💖

 

[Tenor Viol]

There's a whole other joke about being decimal or binary.💖

Well, as someone who was once an IBM mainframe assembler programmer and had to do hexadecimal arithmetic and calculations...

 

[Ghr9204]

IT related jokes are always groan worthy... and I must resist being pedantic.... Us IT bods do have a sense of humour, honest...

Here is a bit of early humour still kept alive these 41.5 years by the School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh titled, Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL . It was first printed in the periodical, DATAMATION, July 1983, pp. 263-265.

(I did systems level programming in FORTRAN 77 and IBM 360J Assembly in the 1980's for aerospace structural testing. Fortran was used for the bulk with jumps to assembly for speed during data acquisition. Who knows what a task trap is? 😀 I was not a quiche eater and had my share of Peanut Butter Cheese Crackers - made prestale at the factory so they couldn't worsen in the vending machines 😛 - and drank vending machine coffee in paper cups during the late hours. 😉 )

 

[Targa]

'Pieces of seven, pieces of seven'
Parity error.

 

[Ghr9204]

MAG1: X'82FA' PARITY ERROR, TASK PAUSED. Time for another stale peanut butter on cheese cracker pack and coffee in paper cup from 2nd floor vending station. 😛

 

[greenstripe]

There's a whole other joke about being decimal or binary.💖

When it comes to understanding binary, there are 10 kinds of people

 

[Targa]

Essential Assembler For Trainee Programmers

AIE: Allow Intermittent Errors
BDM: Branch and Destroy Memory
CAR: Corrupt all Registers
CIL: Create Infinite Loop
CRN: Convert to Roman Numerals
DDS: Damage Disk and Stop
DIGO: Data In Garbage Out
FSE: Fake Serious Error
GSI: Garble Subsequent Instructions
GQS: Go Quarter Speed
HEM: Hide Evidence of Malfunction
HCF: Halt and Catch Fire
IKI: Ignore Keyboard Input
JPF: Jam Paper Feed
LNM: Launch Nuclear Missiles
MAW: Make Annoying Whine
NNI: Neglect Next Instruction
QWF: Quit Working Forever
QVC: Question Valid Command
RWD: Read Wrong Device
SMZ: Subtract Minus Zero
TLH: Talk Like Hal
SCE: Simulate Correct Execution
TTC: Tangle Tape and Crash
UBC: Use Bad Chip
VDP: Violate Design Parameters
VMB: Verify and Make Bad
WAF: Warn After Fact
XID: eXchange Instruction with Data
ZAM: Zero All Memory
PIC: Punch Invalid Card
RASC: Read And Shred Card
RPM: Read Programmers Mind
RTAB: Rewind Tape and Break
RWDSK: ReWind DiSK
SPSW: Scramble Program Status Word
SRSD: Seek Record and Scratch Disk
WBT: Water Binary Tree

 

[h4yn0nnym0u5e]

 

[Ghr9204]

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[mizmar]

IT jokes have moved on, you know.

Like the one my other half got the other day

ITBod1: look, someone has just downloaded a pile of PDFs from a Journal editing website..
ITBod2: it appears to be a final issue review
ITBod1: yup... And... Delete PDF mark-up tool from the network
iTBod2: ... And install new tool...
ITBod1: ... And....


Ring, ring...

iTBod2: "hello, IT support. Can I help you?", "PDF tool missing you say?"

Oh such fun.

 

[greenstripe]

One of the popular free to use non Adobe PDF creator/editor tool has major security concerns, a lot of IT departments have been advised to remove urgently.

 

[Jimmymack]

IT jokes aren't very funny are they?

 

[Tenor Viol]

IT jokes aren't very funny are they?

The perennial challenge of domain specific humour is.... it's domain specific. As a sprog assembler programmer in the 80s there were lots of "jokes" around the endless abbreviations and acronyms used in computing, not one of which would be in the slightest bit amusing to anyone else.

 

[mizmar]

IT jokes aren't very funny are they?

No?
How about the one where the Microsoft IT person replaced the Skype for Linux .rpm with flatpack, even though many Linux distributions don't support flat pack by default making the "click here to upgrade" button useless for average users 🤣?
And with a bonus unresolvable repo URL for uninstalling... Oh my sides, how we laughed

😠

 

[Targa]

IT jokes aren't very funny are they?

Back around mid eighties the management had a big thing about 'Quality' as if they had just invented it and demanded every one thought of something to show how important it was.
Apparently bug free software didn't count.
So I suggested everyone wore a badge saying 'IT4Q'.
Unsurprisingly they didn't laugh.

 

[mizmar]

One of the popular free to use non Adobe PDF creator/editor tool has major security concerns, a lot of IT departments have been advised to remove urgently.

That may have been the reason.
Or, the more usual, "my nieces partner is trying to get a start-up off the ground. If we use their software it'd really help and I'd get a nice kickback"

 

[Jimmymack]

As I said...

 

[Woodpad]

the y2000 problem made the IT world jittery as the must work time was fixed.