Sorry: I'd misremembered. My is his daughter. I'd always lazily assumed that it was part of the M$-led trend to call everything "my something-or-other": My Documents, My Videos, My SQL - it made sense. It was quite delicious to discover the truth. <°}}}>«<

Interesting bit of trivia: Michael Widenius named MariaDB after his daughter, Maria. He had previously named MySQL after his son, My, and MaxDB after his son, Max. Michael Widenius - Wikipedia[^] I would personally recommend MariaDB over MySQL these days; I'm not a fan of the way Oracle have been handling MySQL. PostGreSQL is also an excellent choice of RDBMS for Linux platforms. <°}}}><

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May we see pictures, please? <°}}}>«

That sounds like a rotten task. Thanks for carrying the load for the rest of us. <°}}}>«<

Thanks: noted ;-) <°}}}>«<

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We have, in the UK, a similar phrase. "Get orf my land" pokes fun at crimson-faced, shotgun-carrying farmers, who stereotypically loathe members of the public using perfectly-legal public footpaths across farm land. <°}}}>«<

Trust the Express to recycle old news :thumbsdown: Professor Catches Cheating Students by Adding a Trick Question to Exam was published in April last year but I'm pretty sure I've seen the story even before then. <°}}}>«<

I'm absolutely with you on that. Also, with PCREs, the /x switch allows you to indent and comment to your heart's content, so you can write perfectly legible code, and there are on-line engines where you can drop your expression and your input and watch step by step while it does its magic. I'm not sure that I do a day's work without writing a regex and I know of no tool with anywhere near the power for parsing text. ~~~~~~~~ <°}}}>«<

DE9 - B denotes the shell size ;-) <°}}}>«<

I still love Perl and use it almost every day - for everything from system administration to web applications. None of the reasons that the industry typically gives for decrying it seem to affect me: I can still read code that I wrote ten years ago. <°}}}>«<

Everything I built as a kid was a bit rubbishy because I didn't have the tools or materials to build professional-looking stuff. With code, I could build stuff that looked as good or even better than the professional efforts. PS - I "invented" the Deltic engine when I was about fourteen and then realised with huge sadness that it was impossible - one pair of pistons would always be moving in the same direction as each other. I still think that the Napier solution to that problem is one of the most imaginative pieces of engineering ever. There's an hypnotic animation at http://www.3d-meier.de/tut16/Napier/Ani1.html <°}}}>«<

I like AEONS <°}}}>«<

You could try running a Linux from a thumb drive. You could then use xev (in an X environment) or showkey (from the command line) to see if any bogus keystrokes were being generated. <°}}}>«<

You literally can't install a windows computer without internet and a pre-existing account unless you've got those steps summarized somehow.

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You don't even need a human. I find explaining things to my cat can have the same effect.

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