Posts by TimGJ

This reminds me of something in ancient history when I was the resident VMS guru somewhereback in the mid 1990s. We suddenly urgently needed some code which used VMS' password system, so I hacked something together in a great rush in C in an hour, with all manner of comments along the lines of "Not production grade code. Do not use this!"

Needless to say it was the one bit of code I wrote for the company which was then reused on every system they shipped thereafter.

Happy days

I worked for Demon managing their broadband products and various weird technologies shortly for a couple of years after they'd been taken over by Thus. Demon were one of the most talented bunch of people I have ever worked with. But the culture clash with Thus was horrendous, and the internal atmosphere, particularly once we'd decamped from Gateway House to Bunhill Row became increasingly awful.

It's a shame that Bill Allen and the rest of the Thus senior management were such utter numpties. I have to wonder what would have happened had they been vaguely competent.

It all seems like a different lifetime, yet it's less than 20 years ago.