Need to work on more songs at some point. Not feeling very creative.
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Quote: chipolata @ June 14 2012, 11:25 AM BSTI can't imagine you doing anything physical, zooo. I think of you as a sedintary person who never leaves her room.
Some days I am!
Quote: zooo @ June 14 2012, 12:40 PM BSTSome days I am!
You must have to service Aaron occassionally - I don't mean that in a sexual sense - I mean, change his batteries and make sure his oil levels are topped up before debugging his hard drive.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ June 14 2012, 12:42 PM BSTYou must have to service Aaron occassionally - I don't mean that in a sexual sense - I mean, change his batteries and make sure his oil levels are topped up before debugging his hard drive.
I heard he loves a good debugging!
Quote: L.E. @ June 14 2012, 12:46 PM BSTI heard he loves a good debugging!
The dirty debugger. 
I did an accidental debug yesterday. Gently wafted away a moth with a magazine and splatted it to death instead.
Quote: zooo @ June 14 2012, 12:50 PM BSTI did an accidental debug yesterday. Gently wafted away a moth with a magazine and splatted it to death instead.
*takes zooo off list of potential baby sitters*
I am only dangerous if you have managed to procreate with a moth.
Quote: zooo @ June 14 2012, 12:57 PM BSTI am only dangerous if you have managed to procreate with a moth.
Lord knows I've tried.
Quote: zooo @ June 14 2012, 12:50 PM BSTI did an accidental debug yesterday. Gently wafted away a moth with a magazine and splatted it to death instead.
Did you know that the term "de-bugging" actually comes from a moth?
A very early computer made of relays wasn't working properly for Grace Hopper and the problem was eventually found to be a dead moth caught in one of the relay contacts. After removing it (de-bugging) the computer worked OK.
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Science/Grace%20Hooper.html
D'oh everybody knows that Bill!
Quote: Marc P @ June 14 2012, 3:11 PM BSTD'oh everybody knows that Bill!
apparently mistakenly so according to the busy editing bees at Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging
There is some controversy over the origin of the term "debugging".
The terms "bug" and "debugging" are both popularly attributed to Admiral Grace Hopper in the 1940s.[1] While she was working on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. However the term "bug" in the meaning of technical error dates back at least to 1878 and Thomas Edison (see software bug for a full discussion), and "debugging" seems to have been used as a term in aeronautics before entering the world of computers. Indeed, in an interview Grace Hopper remarked that she was not coining the term. The moth fit the already existing terminology, so it was saved.
Quote: billwill @ June 14 2012, 3:07 PM BSTDid you know that the term "de-bugging" actually comes from a moth?
A very early computer made of relays wasn't working properly for Grace Hopper and the problem was eventually found to be a dead moth caught in one of the relay contacts. After removing it (de-bugging) the computer worked OK.
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Science/Grace%20Hooper.html
I've learnt something new today! I love facts like that. It's part of what makes me 
Quote: billwill @ June 14 2012, 3:15 PM BST
>_<
Bugger.
Quote: Rob H @ June 14 2012, 3:18 PM BSTI've learnt something new today! I love facts like that. It's part of what makes me
>_<
Bugger.
Do you want to know where the phrase: "Booting a computer" comes from?