Originally posted by NordlysThat would be an excellent description of a Network Administrator, the only part they left out is that they like to wear T-shirts with "have a coke and a smile" written on them and their trousers don't quite reach their ankles.
Hogwash. This is a troll: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLEo7H9tqSM
Top marks.
Originally posted by Shallow BlueJust because people have decided it can mean whatever they want it to, doesn't mean it is correct.
That's a decade late, at least, and a more specific use than the normal, older one. Check out TJF:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/troll.html
Richard
I think they should be rounded up, flogged and force fed Rich Tea biscuits.
(swap the flogging for marmite if you wish, I myself could never be so cruel).
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Originally posted by WoodgieI think you misunderstand what The Jargon File is.
Just because people have decided it can mean whatever they want it to, doesn't mean it is correct.
These are not people who decide what a word means. This comes directly from the people who invented that meaning of the word, twenty years before you even knew the net existed. Methinks their opinion has seniority.
Richard
Originally posted by Shallow BlueHow could you not see I was trying to be funny?
I think you misunderstand what The Jargon File is.
These are not people who decide what a word means. This comes directly from the people who invented that meaning of the word, twenty years before you even knew the net existed. Methinks their opinion has seniority.
Richard
That was comedy at its best.
Incidentally, In my youth I attempted bringing Email to the Amstrad PCW 9512 a project that ended disastrously.
The good old days of the Zilog Z80 ("64 KB of RAM should do it"😉.
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Originally posted by WoodgieYou are not wrong, there.
Incidentally, In my youth I attempted bringing Email to the Amstrad PCW 9512 a project that ended disastrously.
IME, any project involving Amstrad was a disaster from the start. "Lord" Sugar my projectile diarrhaeic behind!
Richard
Originally posted by Shallow BlueA soldering iron, an Avo meter and a box of crap and the World was your oyster.
You are not wrong, there.
IME, any project involving Amstrad was a disaster from the start. "Lord" Sugar my projectile diarrhaeic behind!
Richard
When the PC Sound card came on the scene, my first idea was to use it as a poor man's oscilloscope, why would you want to play music on your PC when a Sony Walkman was the last word in portable music.