The totally off-topic thread

[notzac]

I don't mind nano, nice and easy to use :mrgreen:

OUT. NOW.



vim is wonderful, so long as you bother to memorise most of the commands .. and it's absolutely miserable if you don't.

 

[Flashback]

OUT. NOW.



vim is wonderful, so long as you bother to memorise most of the commands .. and it's absolutely miserable if you don't.

Exactly! Can't be bothered learning it given I don't use it all that often

Also .. SCO? Come on, really?

 

[medhead]

BRB, off to get some tissues for various people...

Im sure you won't need them, all the vi, emacs, edt, etc. ad nuseum fans probably don't realise English lacks the pre defined singular syntax usage that they find so appealing. Which might explain their inability to maintain sight of context, and instead focus on "operators" like "the same as".

 

[serfty]

Edt on a Vax is where it was at

C'mon, at least EVE is more usful.

FWIW, Notepad is fare easier to than vi although vi is nicely geeky.

 

[Mal]

Oh and notzac. Solved my cert problem.

We tend to create them via openssl and then lodge the csr with one of our three cert registries. In this case i created the private key but it was somehow in the wrong format for the well known large enterprise appliance. Ended up using openssl to add a password to the priv key and then remove it and funnily enough it was then accepted.

Strange world.

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[Mal]

Going back to unix days... At uni we were using pine. Uggh. Anyway being dropped into a unix shell had its advantages, i could use the 'finger' command to track down people and see if they used email or add details i didnt have etc. Good fun. Just very hard to explain to people what you did...

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[Princess Fiona]

Since the awful summer weather is almost over here is my top summer pic :


Actual picture taken by a dear friend at Bar Beach.
Only in Newcastle

 

[JohnK]

I must have accidentally stepped into a parallel universe where people are talking in gobbledygook.

It is simply amazing the rubbish the human mind can invent....

 

[oz_mark]

Going back to unix days... At uni we were using pine. Uggh. Anyway being dropped into a unix shell had its advantages, i could use the 'finger' command to track down people and see if they used email or add details i didnt have etc. Good fun. Just very hard to explain to people what you did...

It was easy. You just told people you fingered them.

 

[medhead]

I must have accidentally stepped into a parallel universe where people are talking in gobbledygook.

It is simply amazing the rubbish the human mind can invent....

Only the superior people who invented the interwebs can understand it. Not mere mortals who are supposed to live in awe of these superhumans who walk among us.

 

[drron]

Since the awful summer weather is almost over here is my top summer pic :
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Actual picture taken by a dear friend at Bar Beach.
Only in Newcastle

I dont know.I saw a very similiar set up at Mersey Bluff beach in Devonport 2 weeks ago.
Mind you they probably were visiting Novocastrians.

 

[Flashback]

Going back to unix days... At uni we were using pine. Uggh. Anyway being dropped into a unix shell had its advantages, i could use the 'finger' command to track down people and see if they used email or add details i didnt have etc. Good fun. Just very hard to explain to people what you did...

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It was easy. You just told people you fingered them.

We used to write scripts to respond to finger requests on IRC with things like "Oh boy, that tickles!"

 

[JohnK]

Only the superior people who invented the interwebs can understand it. Not mere mortals who are supposed to live in awe of these superhumans who walk among us.

I am only jealous of the money they are raking in not their achievements.

 

[markis10]

Anyone else get an invite to join the BA Exec club, rather odd, have they changed the rules?

 

[Princess Fiona]

Anyone else get an invite to join the BA Exec club, rather odd, have they changed the rules?

Nothing here. Not aware of any rule changes. Mind you I still have an official UK address so could technically apply for it

 

[notzac]

We tend to create them via openssl and then lodge the csr with one of our three cert registries. In this case i created the private key but it was somehow in the wrong format for the well known large enterprise appliance. Ended up using openssl to add a password to the priv key and then remove it and funnily enough it was then accepted.

I've absolutely seen weird cough like that before, though it's the first time I've heard of it with OpenSSL. Interesting!

 

[Mal]

I've absolutely seen weird cough like that before, though it's the first time I've heard of it with OpenSSL. Interesting!

Yeah. Weird. The difference was 'begin private key' vs 'begin Rsa private key'. I thought it was something to do with win 7 and admin priv when creating the key, ie it couldn't access certain things but also replicated the issue using admin escalation . Very strange. Anyway one for the memory bank to check in the future.

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[drmikki]

Anyone else get an invite to join the BA Exec club, rather odd, have they changed the rules?

Yep, I did... thought it was related to a recent BA flight I took (EDI-LCY 20th Jan) but thought it was a little odd since I linked to my QF membership at the time of booking, and listed my Aussie address etc. An effort to steal away QF elites, perhaps? Their internet in the lounge was much faster than anything I have encountered in a QP before, although that said I've not been in a domestic QP for 7 months...

 

[straitman]

Anyone else get an invite to join the BA Exec club, rather odd, have they changed the rules?

I got it also and I've had nothing to do with BA for years. ?

 

[ozbeachbabe]

As a proper noun, no. But as a collective name for a connected networks beyond an intranet, probably yes.

The Queen : the queens of Europe. The Internet: The internets of OW, *A and skyteam.

On the subject of plurals etc I notice in the latest QF inflight safety briefing that features a Captain & F/A at the top of the stairs to an a/c the F/a says "the crew is here to help you..." but shouldn't it be the crew are here?

I know generally the word crew means more than one person but it's one of those words that can be single and plural.

Take the word fish for example, if it was a single fish you could say "nemo is here to help you" however if several fish were helping you the correct terminology would be "the fish are here to help you". That's why as QF crew comprises more than one person IMHO it that instance the spiel should be "the crew are here to help you".