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I'm in a bit of a mood today. It could have been far worse! 
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Arrrgh! It's Friday afternoon. Let's just forget the bright lights in Q&A and prepare to enjoy the weekend.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Works for me.
[Edit] 10586
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 29-Apr-16 15:32pm.
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Which the company I worked for purchased the source from a company in Germany.
And while running it on a test machine a file named "errorlog.txt" appeared on the root of C drive with only the following text:
In installdarpanviapropriettycode function Anybody else see the acronym "darpa" in there (right after "install")? (And couldn't they spell propriety correctly!)
Now the acronym "darpa" refers to a US Agency: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
So, code from a private company references DARPA? Maybe DARPA/NSA had someone on the inside put in a backdoor?
Wouldn't surprise me.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: And couldn't they spell propriety correctly!
Oh, the irony! 
The word you're looking for is proprietary:
Nonstandard and used only by one particular organization...
not propriety:
Correctness in behaviour and morals; good manners, seemliness.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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LOL. But maybe they meant "correctness in behavior".
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Whatever man, it is just the error log. Or, they want you to believe it to be.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Can't you look in the source and tell where that file was written from ?
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Indeed, I can. That won't tell me who put it there, though. But, I can look to see what it's doing.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I've been in the (US) government for a while and its hard to hire contractors on our existing service contract so I finally found a contract vehicle that would allow us to get either a consultant/programmer if we can find this person but now I need to know how to find a qualified individual for the type of work we need.
We need an embedded Linux programmer (I'm not one but we do have one on our team who is doing other work). Be able to advise, review our design, and be able to code, etc. Must understand or be expert at kernel level programming -- device drivers, network/networking IP, ARP, unicast, etc. Basically, we're rolling our own streamlined linux onto a remote network distributor (or redistributor/IP message forwarder). The subsystem will have a main/alternate redundant data paths, control what path to switch to, is bidirectional for some messages but mostly unidirectional. Will need to know which path is online, obtain performance measurements, capable of running a built in test while operating and a fault isolation test when in a maintenance mode to isolate any problems. This device will be the interface to other devices on the network allowing remote access for configurations and also acts as a controller/manager providing status and information for remote monitoring purposes.
Personally, we have a small team of C programmers (expert at their area of the system)and only one knows linux and kernel level programming. Of course, he's a know it all and may be pulling the wool over our eyes sometimes because none of us know embedded well enough to challenge him. He seems competent though has a large ego. Anyway, I've did some preliminary looks online at the guru.com type of sites. Wow. That didn't seem very productive. The government can't post a job on one of those sites. And, I tried a couple of informal direct contacts to no avail.
Anyway, was hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
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This is the US government.
So no matter where you advertise, no matter how you recruit, no matter where you look for a good, highly experienced embedded Linux programmer, you will get a COBOL coder who wears socks and sandals ... and has "worked" for the government for his entire life... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: COBOL coder who wears socks and sandals
You mean he will be British?
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LMAO at this one. 
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True that !! 
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Doesn't munchies_matt, aka fat_boy specialize in this area? He may know someone.
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so munchies_matt is fat boy. I wondered where fat boy went.
Anyhow, fat boy does do low-level kernel programming, if I recall...could be wrong though, It has been a while and my memory sucks. 
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length of contract? clearance needed?
I'd be looking for unix developer groups. I'd talk to you, but my driver level stuff was PCI and graphics accelerators....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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If you eat Beryllium, Gold, and Titanium are you soon BeAuTiFul?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No, you are soon DEAD!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You mean to say that it's like Krypton to him?
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If he gets a good undertaker, he could be both beautiful and dead you know! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Quite. It never pays to go elementary on your alimentary!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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O, U SiLi PErSON!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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LOL!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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