Advanced search...wtf

So can we no longer search for 'threads started by' a poster?

Techs aren't allowed blue
apparently they aren't important enough for blue they just run the place

My cat died Nice of you to bring it up

I may have learnt FORTRAN at school but I am totally lost now .

Always thought the advanced search was a real faff anyway - needs upgrading tech

Ah i forgot that word has two meanings. If the cat fits wear it?

WHO exactly is CHUNDERING??

Val They are just chundering about different programming languages. All you need to know is that different languages in programming are used for different things. Basically what they have said is that they can tell different types database what to do and how to do it, they can get a website to run a database, and importantly get microsoft programs to work properally but telling it what they want it to do rather then let microsoft tell them how they want it to work.

I lost you at code release.

[wunk]

(PaperV, some think it's sperm-like in it's simplicity )

~D looks like a computer mouse

HQ once explained that the techs didnt get the blue colouring. Cant remember the reason behind it - something about anyone being able to stick tech on their name or something. I believe i gave rise to a whole load of mnner techs who ran riot for a bit.

Very glad to get search working again properly

Perhaps not 'blue' enough to work inside MN Towers... :)

The ~D is a mini fencing foil!

Why is Damien not in pale blue like the rest of MNhQ?

Is he just an ordinary poster?

Wish I had had chance to learn it at school... but clearly not for everyone... still, guarantees you're young !

Oh dear... too much rust getting in here, too, as it must have been Algol 66, and F 77... didn't want to shout FORTRAN (= Formula Transltion, for those unaware) after I had already done so for COBOL (which may still be in use in some big firms :) )

However, I bet you would regret being up-to-date if it meant no DC in your life!

Oh, that's weird, I just posted on a thread yesterday that the most useless thing I'd learnt at school was FORTRAN.

Not often you come across FORTRAN users these days . I broke my teeth on Pascal and moved to FORTRAN 77 (with Systel). Some aeons ago though

Have flirted with C++, VB and that ilk in the past, but my most recent incarnations have been in the MIS arena - Oracle, SQL Server, Crystal, Business Objects

Getting rustier by the day though (damn kids)

That's what we like to see, 'elevenses' at 15:45, so you will be working until midnight or later, eh, DamianTech. like me :)

Ah, I got stuck into Algol 60, COBOL, Fortran 66 (and Fortran IV before it) plus Pascal and some others (12 dialects of BASIC, PLAN [for ICL 1900 family], etc) but that was 25-30 years ago... Play with PHP, Perl, etc a bit now, plus MySQL, dBase, Access and sometimes Oracle.

Thanks NG. I'm resisting the urge to say I did know that (have been a code monkey in the past), but my pride won't let me

but I guess other people won't have known it, so it was helpful - thanks

The name is ironic

In linux / unix (and even hidden in those 'pretty' OSX Macs) ~username is a short-cut way to describe the 'home directory for username' (ie a directory path, much shorter to enter, and less prone to error than some description like /hda3/Users/NetGuy ... ~NetGuy means the same).

Daemons are background processes doing particular tasks, but sound like 'demons' so since we so often characterize a demon with a tail, I just used poetic licence to suggest it...

Best for me to make no comment on the 'given name' however as I don't want to be banished by the power of the Tech God :)

Never apologise for being a geek

PoWoo - that's a new one. Better than 'Perv' which some people insist on