Programming Humor

[Joseph Sinclair]

In fact, the whistle-a-phone-number question is based on the real-life case of Joe Engressia - a.k.a "The Whistler".  Born blind, he had perfect pitch, and developed the ability to dial by whistling the number tones as a kid.  A quick Google will get you a lot of other information about the old-school Phreak's and their techniques and exploits (before the criminals mugged it all up).

Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> I was scoring ~ 70% up to around question 200.  Then my dinner brake
> ended.  Logically, if I kept going I would have hit something just shy
> of wizard :)
> 
> But seriously, I would love to meet the person who could whistle a phone
> number :)  I could make my commodore 64 whistle a quarter sound that was
> accepted by most payphones even after an analog transfer to a 4 track
> tape.  But I really doubt a person could do a whole phone number, from
> tone memory.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> jdawg
> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:43 PM
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> Subject: Re: Programming Humor
> 
> Dazed_75 wrote:
>> There has been a lot of this over the years but this collection is
>> mostly good and even the old stuff is still funny.  So take a look at
>> http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/ and specifically at his
>> Saturday August 23 post if you are looking at this at a later date.
>>
>>   
> this brings back a LOT of memories, of when I worked at DEC.
> has anyone ever read all volumes of the BOFH series? I have.
>