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I am setting this thread up as my new test facility. Thereofre I need to test it.
Test.
Umf
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[...]the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time. - Veblen
BTW, can we, as a test, have a top 10 by number of posts in this thread in this thread? Just testing an idea...
Test (is that nick in use already?)
Umf
Join MURCs Distributed Computing effort for Rosetta@Home and help fight Alzheimers, Cancer, Mad Cow disease and rising oil prices.
[...]the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time. - Veblen
Originally posted by Umfriend BTW, can we, as a test, have a top 10 by number of posts in this thread in this thread? Just testing an idea...
Test (is that nick in use already?)
Umf
Byock did it earlyer, but the thread was only 2 or 3 pages long.
If you want to do it it's fine by me
wave a dead chicken v. To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed software or hardware that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied that an appropriate degree of effort has been expended. "I'll wave a dead chicken over the source code, but I really think we've run into an OS bug." Compare voodoo programming, rain dance; see also casting the runes.
A man was driving down a quiet country lane when out into the road
strayed a rooster.
Whack! The rooster disappeared under the car in a cloud of feathers. Shaken, the man pulled over at the farmhouse and rang the doorbell. A farmer appeared. The man somewhat nervously said, "I think I killed your rooster, please allow me to replace him." "Suit yourself," the farmer replied, "the hens are round the back."
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless...
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