RE: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code
- From: "Bobak, Mark" <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx" <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "ric.van.dyke@xxxxxxxxxx" <ric.van.dyke@xxxxxxxxxx>, "troach@xxxxxxxxx" <troach@xxxxxxxxx>, "dennis@xxxxxxxxxx" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:36:59 -0500
I suppose CAFEBABE is better than DEADBEEF.
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Matthew Zito
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:05 AM
To: ric.van.dyke@xxxxxxxxxx; troach@xxxxxxxxx; dennis@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code
In our software, there is a series of event-based functions - i.e. our software
sees that a particular event has occurred, and springs into action to resolve
it. The developers may have refactored this to remove it, but for several
years, those function calls were "Object.GoGoGadget_____" where ____ was the
type of event. So, "GoGoGadget_DatabasePatch" and "GoGoGadget_ConfigureASM"
were scattered all through the logs.
On a slightly related note, for years, even after Microsoft purchased Hotmail,
you could do a host -l hostmail.com and get a list of all the DNS names under
hotmail.com. They were all really boring, mail47.slc.hotmail.com, etc. etc.,
except for one server called rotate-the-shield-harmonics.hotmail.com.
Or every Java class using the hex phrase "CAFEBABE" as its magic number.
I personally find it amusing when these things crop up. As long as it doesn't
negatively impact the product (i.e. why not use Radiohead lyrics when you need
a string?), I'm all for it.
Matt
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-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Ric Van Dyke
Sent: Tue 1/26/2010 9:33 AM
To: troach@xxxxxxxxx; dennis@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code
You'd be surprised (or shocked) at some of the things that have creep
into the code over the years...
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Ric Van Dyke
Hotsos Enterprises
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Roach
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 7:44 AM
To: dennis@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code
I wonder what other lyrics are in the code :)... Could this explain why
Oracle keeps taking more room to install? : )
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Dennis Yurichev <dennis@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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Hi.
strings oracle.exe | grep radiohead
Starting at least at 10.2.0.1, function kfasSelfTest_update() (located
in kfas.o) use Radiohead lyrics to test... something related to ASM
probably.
Schematic pseudocode:
#define STRING "I'm a creep, I'm a winner, what the hell am I doing
here.I don't belong here - radiohead"
kfasSelfTest_update()
{
kfasOpen (...);
somestruct.somevalue=STRING;
kfasUpdate (somestruct);
kfasClose (...);
newstruct=kfasOpen (...);
if (strncmp (newstruct.somevalue, STRING, ...)!=0)
{
// raise error 99999?
kserec1(99999, 1, ...);
kserec2(99999, 1, ..., STRING, 1, ...);
return 0;
};
kfasClose (...);
return 1;
};
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