logging on messages

[Fnaar]

you know when you're logging onto something, or loading new software and those little boxes pop up to tell you what's going on? Well, work has just jazzed up their software a bit, so that when I log in from home (as unfortunately I have to do from time to time) apart from the usual "logging on" blah blah, I've just had "applying logging on branding policy"... lovely. I'm so happy to know that. It tells me so much. B)

 

[Carwash]

Your work has a branding policy? What are you, a steer on some Texan ranch?

 

[2Loose]

They are only diagnostic messages so that you can tell a techy where it stopped - if it ever did.

I used to use a system that ran calculations for over an hour.
Once the 'go' button was pressed, nothing happened for the entire time, until it finished. We had to wait an hour and a half to find out if the button had actually been pressed properly!

 

[rh100]

They are only diagnostic messages so that you can tell a techy where it stopped - if it ever did.

I used to use a system that ran calculations for over an hour.
Once the 'go' button was pressed, nothing happened for the entire time, until it finished. We had to wait an hour and a half to find out if the button had actually been pressed properly!

Just look to see if the hard disk led is going faster

 

[meenaghman]

hence the reason for hash command in ftp. Oh the early days of the internet using dial lines to take down 20Mb files.

 

[Carwash]

Just look to see if the hard disk led is going faster

Reminds me of the Jargon File's entry for 'green lightning': http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/green-lightning.html

 

[2Loose]

Just look to see if the hard disk led is going faster

Server based process, so not applicable in this case or we would have spotted it - honest!