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I program a system for massive remote monitoring of Windows machines.

SMART.

― Holy Crap! Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I can build an analog delay pedal or fix a vintage pedal that has stopped working.

COOL.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Analog is for the birds.

― Holy Crap! Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

And the VCM stuff you were so interested in appears on what digital effects or synths?

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

VCN?

― Holy Crap! Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

birds are dinosaurs.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

http://nascarulz.tripod.com/draptors.jpg

― Holy Crap! Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I use a Mac at home. I hate tcsh so I avoid the command line whenever possible. I tried to get a bunch of packages using fink but my gcc compiler links are broken and I can't be bothered to fix them. I have a liberal arts degree, like seriously, my degree says "liberal arts," no "history" or "linguistics" attached at all. I've never bothered to install SoulSeek or BitTorrent clients on my box and I pay for all my software and music.

My name is TOMBOT and I work in the IT security industry making $80,600 a year.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

UH OH THE DOUCHERY ESCALATES

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

tom, do you use Checkpoint at all in your job?

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

VCN?

Heheh... I am writing something on Voltage Controlled Modulation which is why I typed "VCM." What I meant to say was "CV."

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

You know, not ALL file sharing is criminal. Also, the default shell changed to bash in Panther. I reccomend changing:

http://www.macdevcenter.com/mac/2004/02/24/graphics/preferences.jpg

― Nick Burns (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.animationstation.net/posterimages/R/Revenge_Of_The_Nerds_II.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 06:36 (nineteen years ago) link

The extent of my nerdiness is my .plan file:

\\$ finger tforbes
Login name: tforbes In real life: Tracy Forbes
Directory: /home/tforbes Shell: /bin/bash
On since Aug 4 17:47:45 on pts/58 from fastethernet0.fw.mel.off.connect.com.au
No unread mail
Plan:
I wouldn't know a cunning plan if it jumped up on a table and sang
"cunning plans are here again".

(now you all know my last name, haha.. whee wtf ever)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 06:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Dude my Solaris shell is 2 mins ahead of ILX. Waahh!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 06:45 (nineteen years ago) link

(any jokes about fingering will be met with a punch in the head btw)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry AdamL but this was too easy:

How dumb are mac users
Listen to what I am going to say very carefully: I. Poured. Beer. Into. My. Powerbook!

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I dread the day I accidentally spill something on, and ruin, my notebook PC. Its already riddled with ciggy ash. I'm a slob.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 06:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Request: Norton Utilities

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 07:16 (nineteen years ago) link

\\$ finger tforbes

hahahhaha

sorry trayce

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 07:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Pics plz thx

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I used to have a crontab on a machine on my school's Solaris/IRIX mailserver that would poll my accounts on other machines and update my .plan there.

.plan writing was a HUGE phenomnenon in my college! there was even a script written to monitor people's .plans for changes.

Sadly, as people moved from pine to webmail, this has faded away

― Holy Crap! Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

a crontab

This sounds like some alien warrior race with a carapace.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

What is Crontab?
Crontab is a program that allows users to create jobs that will run at a given time.

Also, I had a crontab that scanned my mailspool for PACKAGE RECEIVING notifications and txted me :D

― Holy Crap! Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

So crontab is pervy, then.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link

i still use pine sometimes

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Jon - hah yeah same at my uni - all the cute lil asian kids had .plan files a BAJILLION lines long that were shitty ASCII pics of hello kitty or pandas or some shit.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh and *punches KenC in the head*

(I did warn ya!)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

http://www.lostbrain.com/assets/images/happyweed.gif

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.metroplexhealth.com/aromatherapy.jpg

― Shatterproof Glass (dymaxia), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow here I was having a good laff at the UNIXnerds posting here and then I saw that i posted here too. Argh.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 March 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Apple developing two-button mouse

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 17 March 2005 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link

classic thread

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 17 March 2005 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link

boners

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Thursday, 17 March 2005 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link

the company is feverishly working on a two-button wireless optical mouse that it intends to release.

Feverishly! hahahaha

"Oh my god! How does this work?! How do we do this?! WE'RE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS HERE, PEOPLE!"

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, 17 March 2005 07:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Insiders warned that anticipation may continue to build for months as the company perfects the product.

What. the. fuck.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, 17 March 2005 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I think this all raises the question: How dumb are Mac users? I mean, if they haven't already bought a non-Apple-branded two-button mouse for their Mac?

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, 17 March 2005 07:56 (nineteen years ago) link

"Jaws will drop," said one insider.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 17 March 2005 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link

never felt the need for two buttons, but that's because I can use my left had on the keyboard at the same time as my right is on the mouse, and I can remember a handful of standard dkey combinations.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 17 March 2005 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link

But context menus and a scroll wheel PLUS dkey combos and LH usage must be even better right?

― mei (mei), Thursday, 17 March 2005 11:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Same as Ed, I don't really like using the mouse.

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Thursday, 17 March 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I couldn't use the one button mouse for Unreal - so I've got this mouse now that has about 15 buttons.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I LIKEY SCROLL WHEELS.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

SCROLL TRACKPAD YET THEY CAN'T FIGURE OUT MOUSES???
http://www.apple.com/powerbook/

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Windows is pissing me off because i can't assign the shoulder buttons to my MS mouse to page up and page down.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah that's kind of annoying. I just used the scroll all the time on my mouse instead of trying to do anything like that, it was kind of fun after a while.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

What constitutes being smart as far as computer usage is concerned?

Is it enough to know ASP, SQL, PHP, X/HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flash/Actionscript, PhotoshopIllustratorQuark, Premier, AfterEffects and have artistic skill in and knowledge of print, web and motion graphics design?

Or does one need to creating applications to be considered smart? Because I bet a software developer would look like a fuckin' dumbass pitching ad concepts to Nike.

― Eleventy-Twelve (Eleventy-Twelve), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

You need to know all of those things, including ad pitching.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

All the best people have bad lungs and brittle bones. It's all frightfully romantic.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, 17 March 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

I'm a UNIX user, faggo.
-- Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Tuesday, August 3, 2004 8:38 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

Ah, it is to lol.

― libcrypt, Thursday, 17 April 2008 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link

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