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Greetings,

I hope that I find you this week full of enthusiasm for a weekend of gaming, dungeons and dragons, reenactment society meet-ups, operating system testing and chess competitions…nah, though not! Not all computing people like all those things but we are all indulgent in at least 2 of those I am pretty sure. I think that the modern geek is more of an all rounder with a tendency to bore people about technology that we assume everybody knows about. It’s a tough life!

Without further ado…

Cult stuff:

bare metal: n.

[common] New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase programming on the bare metal, which refers to the arduous work of bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new machine. Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot proms and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new machine a real development environment.

Please send:

Coolest weird bikes – I’d be happy with any of these cool bikes or even all of them

The optimus keyboard – ultimate heavy user keyboard

Dell monitor – wow, how cool is this? I’m a fan of the transparent thingy

The ultimate game chair – oooooooh, send me one of those and fast!

Lexeme of the week:

“liveware”

Slang for people. Also called wetware or jellyware, as opposed to hardware, software, and firmware.

Code of the week:

my $search_key = $something_else;

foreach (keys %some_hash) {

if ($_ eq $search_key) {

do_something($_);

}

}

Geek tweet of the week:

“It looks like nobody thought we might want to change the reporting system when they wrote this code. #coderhell” @Nenad

Time-sink of the week:

Frogger made by Neave Games

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