Wednesday, June 4, 2008

His recent research project...

Being in a Research company, THE BOSS decided to do some independant research.
He wanted a machine(computer) for that. His manager didnt give him any.
So in frustration he went to the lab, took an assembled box and formatted it.
(2 days later Wally came running, asking where is the box on which I had set up Linux=)) )

We excused the BOSS for this mistake . We have to excuse him, after all he is a manager. He is the KING.
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After getting (or grabbing) the machine, he started his research. He was trying to install Tomcat on the box for 7 days. After 7 days I asked him, why he is so keen on Tomcat and why isnt he installing IIS? On which he said Tomcat is a better option. So Googled "IIS better than Tomcat", and whatever were the results, sent them to him in a mail, with the team in cc.
He immediately accepted that Tomcat was not better and we should go for IIS.
But there was a twist in this acceptance, after accepting this he asked me to install IIS. (As he doesnt know how to install IIS.)
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I installed IIS, and stopped working on the crucial project.
After that he was doing reasearch, on the project for around 3-4 months. Here is the research that he told us he did :
Tried variuos combinations of IIS / Tomcat / Apache - he has a list of which version of Apache is compatible with which version of IIS and which version of Tomcat and all that.
He wanted to install base for Java Beans / Perl / PHP / Servlets and Applets on the same machine. (its a 512MB RAM assembled machine).
For this he wasted time of many of the IT resources in the company. When he realized, no one is interested to help him on this stupid task, he even dropped mails to people from different business units for help.
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He wanted to do this to help Dilbert, in his project. Dilbert never asked for these all, and never wanted this for his project.
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In the mean time, Dilbert developed the new system, and launched it too, using some other server class machine. The new system is in production and other teams are using it.
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Recently one day he came to me and told : Asok, I'll keep the assembled box with me. "हम उसपे अपना कुछ प्राइवेट रिसर्च करने वाले है हे "
Pls note,
1. He ends every line that he says with an irritating हे
2. He always adresses himself हम

1 comment:

dilbert said...

Very soon he will come up with a magic number. In the years to come it will be referred to as WEB_CONSTANT_OF_SIX.
The boss will also come up with a special function fn which in combination with the Tomcat and Apache version will determine if a set of components are compatible.

The equation will go something like this

MAGIC_APACHE = fn(APACHE_VERSION) + EB_CONSTANT_OF_SIX

MAGIC_TOMCAT = SQRT( fn(TOMCAT_VERSION) - EB_CONSTANT_OF_SIX )

IF (MAGIC_TOMCAT^2 < MAGIC_APACHE^2)
{
#VERSIONS ARE COMPATIBLE
}

He is also working on a similar algorithm for IIS - Tomcat - PHP compatibility.

All the best to the boss!