Re^5: Demo of the 100 Prisoners Problem using Perl

[cavac]

Another motorhead?

Well, i know a lot about transfer boxes, but not much of anything else. I worked for over a decade as sysadmin for an automotive supplier in Austria. We made rear axle transfer boxes/diffs for a lot of different types of cars, including the Mercedes G class¹. My job was to help keep the production lines running. Before that, i worked a few years for a software company that provided custom-made software for those production lines.

I would be the absolute worst choice of person to be trusted with a socket wrench, but if you ever need someone to keep operating systems on life support for 15 after official end-of-life, using nothing more than software hacks and a soldering iron, i do have some experience.

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¹ For a while, my office was right next to that specific line. I could just open my door and take two steps to solve any IT problem. Then some idiot decided we have to move out of our office container in the production hall to some hard-to-reach place on the other end of the building. You know, because our original office didn't have access to sunlight. Guess what, the blinds stayed closed in the new office all the time, because that makes it easier to see the screens...