Greetings,
welcome to another edition of the TWIG. I hope that you have all had a good week and that you’ve enjoyed your time spent computing as much as I have. cough cough…looking forward to the weekend mind! If you haven’t done so recently go and backup your files right now. I have seen many lives temporarily reduced to ashes as a result of data loss. It does happen so be smart! Back up externally and online. If you do that you can skip into the weekend happy in the knowledge that all is safe 
Without further ado…
Cult:
Unix brain damage /n./
Something that has to be done to break a network program (typically a mailer) on a non-Unix system so that it will inter-operate with Unix systems. The hack may qualify as `Unix brain damage’ if the program conforms to published standards and the Unix program in question does not. Unix brain damage happens because it is much easier for other (minority) systems to change their ways to match non-conforming behavior than it is to change all the hundreds of thousands of Unix systems out there.
An example of Unix brain damage is a kluge in a mail server to recognize bare line feed (the Unix newline) as an equivalent form to the Internet standard newline, which is a carriage return followed by a line feed. Such things can make even a hardened jock weep.
Please send…
Durabook ruggedized notebook – this laptop survives water, kicks, drops and that stuff that happens when you’re out and about.
MBS Pro 100 mountain board – this is a great way to get around during the week and at the weekend you can burn down hills in the mountains or use a kite.
Oakley Thump sunnies – they have an integrated digital audio engine and floating speakers
SeaLife ReefMaster Mini Digital Camera – totally waterproof camera for taking nice shots of the fishies
Zii Egg – it’s an mp3 player that runs on Android. It can shoot HD video and playback movies – the screen is huge!
Lexeme of the week:
Seagull Manager:
A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps all over everything and then leaves. (younggogetter.com)
Code of the week:
while ($leaves > 1) {
$root = 1;
}
foreach($lyingdays{‘myyouth’}) {
sway($leaves, $flowers);
}
while ($i > $truth) {
$i–;
}
sub sway {
my ($leaves, $flowers) = @_;
die unless $^O =~ /sun/i;
}
(by Myers)
Geek tweet of the week:
“now I have a problem Barcamp Brighton or Geeks in the Peaks oh if only there was some geek calendar to stop these clashes” (@tnash)
Time-sink of the week:
Add Games to your own site |
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It was a sarcastic tweet as I was fully aware that Where’s the geeks
exists and is a great resource for UK geeks run by a good friend.
Plug finished
thanks for the mention
Sounds like your looking for toys to take out into the surf with you.