...and (gasp) Emacs 8^)
And then there's ed and ex. After all, who really needs to see more than one line of text at a time!
Or xedit! That's a good one, but then it was a big step forward from one of these:
Mark
Posted on 12/06/2006 7:14:46 AM PST by sionnsar
0xbl00d writes "Eweek.com is reporting a new Microsoft Word zero-day attack underway. Microsoft issued a security advisory to acknowledge the unpatched flaw, which affects Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Word 2004 v. X for Mac. The Microsoft Works 2004, 2005 and 2006 suites are also affected because they include Microsoft Word. Simply opening a word document will launch the exploit. There are no pre-patch workarounds or anti-virus signatures available. Microsoft suggests that users 'not open or save Word files,' even from trusted sources."
Underware made the -best- -editor- -ever-!
There are things I could do with Brief macros in 5 minutes, that I still can't do without spending a hell of a lot of time and effort to do in any editor around today. Best of all, a zipped copy would fit on a floppy. It was a part of my emergency toolkit back in the day.
Very interesting indeed since I received my email today from M$ thanking me for participating in their beta program and promising me a complimentary copy of Vista in February (They did not state which version.) I found this hilarious since I chunked every DVD into the trash immediately after the DSL truck dropped it off at my door.
LOL, now THAT's hard core. ^_^
...and (gasp) Emacs 8^)
And then there's ed and ex. After all, who really needs to see more than one line of text at a time!
Or xedit! That's a good one, but then it was a big step forward from one of these:
Mark
Don't you hate it when you catch mispellings as the thing is posting?
But your command changed all the instances in this entire thread where one person is trying to advice someone on how to use global substitutions! :-)
Mark
Pah! Piker! Real "dudes" use "here documents" exclusively, created at the command line using cat!
I remember using a CRT terminal for the first time! You "young-uns" have it SO easy! When I started, we used hollerinth cards made out of rock! Have you ever tried to create a line of code on an 80 column card made out of rock using a tiny hammer and chisel?
Mark
There. Fixed it.
Sheesh. You should have at least had a bullpen of pterodactyls to chip away at the stone cards. Dude, Fred and Barney had those.
Yeah, and we can all nail our testicles to a tree, but that doesn't mean any of us want to.
Well, technically, about half of us would have to nail something else to a tree, perhaps something else beginning with T, but in any case I think we'd rather pass.
Ping
As do so many things, this reminds me of a favorite joke.
A helicopter pilot and his passenger are about to land in the Seattle area when a sudden fog bank overtakes them. Suddenly, they're lost. Cautiously, the pilot picks through the fog, keeping a wary eye on the fuel gauge, and he finally finds himself facing a building where he can see people working inside.
Flashing his lights, he gets the workers' attention, Scrambling through their bags, the pilot and passenger find a marker and a piece of paper, and they make a sign. "WHERE ARE WE?"
The workers lean forward, gesture that they have received the message, and then pull out a white board and marker to send a message back. "YOU'RE IN A HELICOPTER."
The pilot drops down close to the deck, and with a few deft flicks of his wrist has the chopper down and safe about a minute later. The passenger is stunned. "How did you know so much from such a stupid sign?" he asks.
"The answer was clear, concise, completely correct and absolutely useless," the pilot says. "From that, I knew that it could only come from Microsoft tech support. the Redmond airport isn't far from there."
That's my way of making sure the fix stays fixed in case anyone were to quote my original post later in the document.
Yeah... my tinfoil may be on a bit tight, but that is just too much of a coinkydink...
LOL! There is no Redmond airport...
I guess I need better fact-checking on my jokes. Or I could just drop the word "Redmond" from the last sentence.
Oh, it's funny enough. Only locals would be aware there's no Redmond airport. (We used to have more little airports around here, but they've closed them as suburbia spread.)
No...
NOOOOOOOO!!!
Not that, anything but that!! (LOL)
8^)
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