Introduce yourself Alex.

[The_P]

Or could it be just another shy Aspie. Dunno.

I had enough of shy members, for they are BORING.

Shy members, take note.

[El]

We love fresh meat <b>^H^H</b> newbies.

I can usually puzzle out netspeak but that's new to me.  What does it mean, odeon?

[odeon]

We love fresh meat <b>^H^H</b> newbies.

I can usually puzzle out netspeak but that's new to me.  What does it mean, odeon?

^H (Ctrl-H, actually) is an old keyboard shortcut for Backspace from when emacs was the text editor to use and computers often lacked the backspace button. When Usenet was the Internet, you could sometimes see these strings of ^H, meaning that the author had intended to delete something.

Yeah, I know, this dates me, too.

[Calandale]

Some of us can't use emacs - still stuck in vi.

[odeon]

Some of us can't use emacs - still stuck in vi.

Should we have an emacs-vi flame war, for nostalgia and kicks?

[duncvis]

both are tools of the devil, but vi is my kind of evil. 

[In The spaGhetto]

used vi for years but still can't use it properly.

and that ^H ^H thing is possibly one of the nerdiest things i've ever seen.. and worrying that i understood what it was as well.

it's worse than the
>rm /bin/laden
joke
or the old "there are 10 kind of people in the world - those that understand binary and those that don't"

sure there are others..

[McGiver]

you can always download a binary translater for free.

[Calandale]

Some of us can't use emacs - still stuck in vi.

Should we have an emacs-vi flame war, for nostalgia and kicks?

No. I like emacs better - it's just not available everywhere - believe it or not.

[Callaway]

used vi for years but still can't use it properly.

and that ^H ^H thing is possibly one of the nerdiest things i've ever seen.. and worrying that i understood what it was as well.

it's worse than the
>rm /bin/laden
joke
or the old "there are 10 kind of people in the world - those that understand binary and those that don't"

sure there are others..

 

 

[odeon]

and that ^H ^H thing is possibly one of the nerdiest things i've ever seen.. and worrying that i understood what it was as well.

Takes one to know one, eh?

it's worse than the
>rm /bin/laden
joke

That's recent, and therefore the geekiness level is not quite the same.

[El]

Awesome.  I'm gonna start using the ^H joke now.  If it annoys you when I do, feel free to minus me ^H odeon.

[Calandale]

used vi for years but still can't use it properly.

I don't think it CAN be used properly.

it's worse than the
>rm /bin/laden
joke

Shouldn't that be
>rm -r /bin/laden

[odeon]

used vi for years but still can't use it properly.

I don't think it CAN be used properly.

it's worse than the
>rm /bin/laden
joke

Shouldn't that be
>rm -r /bin/laden

Sure, if it turns out that he's just a cover for lots of small bin Ladens.

[Calandale]

Hmm...I see. I guess I was considering him
to be more than a single program.