I said I'm sorry. I've made mistakes, but fear was never one of them.

Lilah ,'Conviction (1)'


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flea - Apr 03, 2007 5:27:58 am PDT #1132 of 25496
information libertarian

Just as an aside, every time is see "mySQL" my brain goes "My So-Called Life."


Jessica - Apr 03, 2007 9:02:15 am PDT #1133 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Sheep that I am, I just signed up for a Twitter account. Anyone have one of these and actually use it?


amych - Apr 03, 2007 9:08:57 am PDT #1134 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Jess, I do, and then I knew like two people and forgot to ever look at it again.


esse - Apr 03, 2007 9:10:44 am PDT #1135 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

I've got one but I never bother with it really.


Jessica - Apr 03, 2007 11:27:18 am PDT #1136 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I have a bunch of video files that I've just been informed need to use "naming conventions to work within a Unix server environment"

Can someone point me to a simple breakdown of what such naming conventions would consist of?


Gudanov - Apr 03, 2007 11:31:08 am PDT #1137 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping

I dunno. All lower case and with underscores instead of spaces?


Ginger - Apr 03, 2007 11:48:30 am PDT #1138 of 25496
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

That's all I could think of. Unix is case sensitive and doesn't like spaces.


Jessica - Apr 03, 2007 11:49:49 am PDT #1139 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Cool. As long as that's all it is, I'm good.


tommyrot - Apr 03, 2007 11:55:22 am PDT #1140 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Well, there are a lot of non-alphanumeric characters you can't use. Anyone know which ones you can use? Underscore and period, of course....


Ginger - Apr 03, 2007 12:09:39 pm PDT #1141 of 25496
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Oh, yeah. IIRC, underscore and period are pretty much it. No ', ", !, @, #, %,!, ?, etc.