Nose Tone Unturned?

Deskin, Bob Bob.Deskin@Cognos.COM
Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:47:18 -0500


Actually, as I recall, Ron was using Axiant. He wanted to show that he could
get a working form/screen without using the keyboard. He used the mouse for
everything except the last action. At that point, he had to press the Enter
key, so he used his nose.

Bob Deskin              
PowerHouse Web Product Manager and Senior Product Advisor
Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc.
bob.deskin@cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 4205 FAX: (613) 228-3149
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve.Miller@portionpac.com [mailto:Steve.Miller@portionpac.com]
Sent: January 14, 2000 8:15 AM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: RE: Nose Tone Unturned?


Wait...isn't that six nose strokes?  You've got to hit the return key too.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Howard [mailto:paul@synergy.co.za]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 06:24
> To: 'powerhouse list server'
> Subject: RE: Nose Tone Unturned?
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > You can actually do it in 5 nose strokes.
> > 
> > If you have a file called 'a' and you are in quiz type 'dum 
> a' and that
> > will give you the equivalent access a, report all, go
> > 
> > Paul Howard (Synergy Computing)
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Walker, Chris [mailto:ChrisWalker@tateandlyle.com]
> > Sent:	Friday, January 14, 2000 12:26 PM
> > To:	'powerhouse list server'
> > Subject:	Nose Tone Unturned?
> > 
> > Interesting quotation from a Silicon.com mail update (I take no
> > responsiblility for the use of the term "Stateside" to describe,
> > presumably, Canada).  
> > 
> > I've been trying in vain to think of the nose strokes required for a
> > minimal PH program.  Do Cognos offer training or 
> certification in nose
> > programming?
> > 
> > Chris Walker
> > Tate & Lyle
> > London
> > 
> > <snip>
> > Ron Zambonini - the CEO of Cognos - is this week's Agenda Setter on
> > Silicon.com. In this video interview, Ron, one of the few genuine
> > personalities to come out of the UK high-tech industry and 
> make it big
> > Stateside, was asked a question that had never been uttered 
> in our studios
> > before, and probably won't be again.
> > 
> > Silicon.com interviewer: "Is it true you can write a 
> program with your
> > nose?"
> > 
> > Ron (without hesitation): "Yes it is. It was with one of our old 4GL
> > programs... I could create a great program with seven nose strokes."
> > </snip>
> > 
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