On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:23:02 +1000, hopper
<Troll5layer@on.de.road.invalid> wrote:
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>>
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>>Had a few busy days here but I wanted to stop in and thank you for all
>>of your help =D
>>
>.. no worries, from my corner.
>[translation]
>you are very welcome
>
>> I'm always willing to learn and you have been very
>>helpful. Thank you for taking your time to help us newb's!
>>
>You know what you have done in that final sentence?
>No. of course not.. "mind reading", especially "across
>cultures" is at a skill level at the very top of the pyramid.
>Something I myself aspire to achieve, one day, but
>as yet I experience more spectacular "crash and burn"
>results than any level of real proficiency :=D
>
>I am looking at "newb", MamaT. What you have done
>is introduced a new ^word^ both to my Net interaction
>and indeed to this froup!
Glad I could be of assistance, even if it was unknowingly! hehe
>Never have I seen "newb" used here. In fact I don't recall
>ever seeing it anywhere else in my travels.
>And I reckon it is a brilliant descriptor for the other
>level of newbie we get passing through ABCP.
>Folks who are new to binary Usenet but not new to
>Usenet itself, folks who are new to digitising but
>not newbies in general computing and folks
>who are newbies in sewing artwork but not new to
>arts 'n' crafts.
>In the past I have used "n00b" as a reference to many of
>those presenting for the first time - as someone else other
>than a total newbie - and done so in a comical aspect
>moreso than as a "flame".
>Many however never got the joke<g>
>http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=noob
>Sharing with you (it seems) an eagerness to do new
>things well I went and searched "newb" to find the term
>fits like a glove, to the criteria I was attempting to project
>when using "n00b".
>http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=newb
>Sooo.. scratching out an entry in my virtual dictionary is what
>I am busy doing, changing "n00b" (for ABCP) to that which
>universally applies and adding "newb" using the descriptor
>as you have used it.
As you have suggested it was purely by accident! I "try" not to
slaughter the English language (the one we are taught here in the US
anyway). I do however commonly use "shortcut" words while texting, I
must have thought I was texting while typing that day! HA This old
mind just isn't what it use to be!
>
>No small thing is this MamaT, as one Lady here may attest.
>Herself and I have fought for years over the use of
>"eh" and "ay" as the acknowledging nod at the end on an
>enquiring statement.
>[eg]
>"It is the right thing to do, eh".
>[eg]
>"It is the right thing to do, ay".
>Herself is wrong of course
> /ducks
>But you get that from them "Southern Bushies" in
>our Land Down Under
> /rotfL
>http://www.binsearch.info/?q=Land+down+Under&max=250&adv_age=99&server=2
I have to agree with you on this one, although it may in fact be a
matter of opinion, it is "Eh" that we use here. I know how
frustrating it can be to some people to see the misuse of words
though! My pet peeve is to, too and two! How does one become a
college graduate and not know the proper use of those 3 tiny words!?!?
Even with just my high school knowledge I know the difference! It's
primary education right??
>
>You never knew it when you typed in those four
>characters, had no idea just what you were
>contributing as "help".. but you have, helped,
>tremendously so.
>That is how Usenet works.
>
>ta, MamaT
>[translation] thanks
Thank you so much for the translations. I'm still learning many of
them and get quite a chuckle out of some of them. One of my favorites
(per a friend on Guernsey Island) is when you stay in a hotel there
they ask you..."Would you like us to knock you up"!! We call it a
"wake up call" here and getting "knocked up" is slang for getting
pregnant, BIG difference! I've often wanted to walk in to a hotel and
ask a nice looking, well built young man if he would like to "knock me
up" just to see his reaction...(snicker)
Okay so back to a few questions a little more on topic if you don't
mind.... I've always had an inquisitive mind and want to know the
when, where, how. I've seen it mentioned that you "may" have changed
the ini file in Agent. I understand in some instances they do need to
be changed. If in fact you did change it, I am curious as to why?
What the benefit might be. I am using Agent 5.00/32.1171 and WinRAR
3.62. They are working fine for me (as far as I can tell) but am
wondering if it would be to my advantage to switch to the releases you
have included with the tools? What might the differences be for me?
Thanks =-)
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