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I'm a nerd. I'm certainly not the biggest nerd, but I think I have some nerd cred.
Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: July 01, 2008 08:13AM
I needed to copy a list of around twenty folder names from Windows Explorer into Word, so I wrote a Perl script to do it.
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Posted by: Lux Interior
Date: July 01, 2008 08:15AM
Open folder, select the folder's whose names you want to copy, ctrl-c, ctrl-v into Word.
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Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: July 01, 2008 08:18AM
When you do so, it tries to copy the object, not the filenames.

At least, that's how it works here in America, buddy. <chawspit>
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Posted by: karsen
Date: July 01, 2008 08:23AM
What Lux said is right, except for the directly into Word part. Paste the names into a text only editor first, like Text Wrangler, and it will work fine.


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Posted by: Lux Interior
Date: July 01, 2008 08:24AM
It does both, but it assumes you just want to paste the names of the folders into a Word document, if that's where you unleash the cntrl-v.

Windows est la même merde partout.
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Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: July 01, 2008 08:26AM
Doesn't work here.

Copy folder names from Windows. Go to Wordpad or Word - Paste. Fail.
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Posted by: Lux Interior
Date: July 01, 2008 08:29AM
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Posted by: mattkime
Date: July 01, 2008 08:33AM
yesterday my roommate sent me an article saying that our internet was down.

i explained that my time lapse camera contacts my webserver every time it takes a pic. if it fails to be contacted for 15 min, it sends me an email.

i knew out internet had been out and restored before the article was written.


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Posted by: microchip
Date: July 01, 2008 08:33AM
Very nice, except I've been working on getting my SGI Origin 2000's booting Irix. I'm not there yet, some issues with ksh are present, but, I did manage to get the MMSC(Screen on the front of them) working after hooking it up to a different power supply.

And in other news, I've written two webapps in the past 2 weeks in PHP, and am working on debugging C today, Woohoo!
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Posted by: cbelt3
Date: July 01, 2008 08:34AM
Yes, you and chip are very nerdy.
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Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: July 01, 2008 08:35AM
'chip is getting an earlier nerd start than I did, so he'll do well.

Except, of course, he'll have to deal with the Indian nerds, who will nerd for one-quarter the price.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/01/2008 08:36AM by Greg the dogsitter.
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Posted by: karsen
Date: July 01, 2008 08:38AM
OK, I guess you are nerdy. I missed the whole Windows part. I read that as windows, meaning a window in the Finder in OS X.


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Posted by: Lux Interior
Date: July 01, 2008 08:40AM
Seriously though, I just tried it and it worked.

Update:

Never mind. It wasn't a Windows Explorer window, but another one whose windows look JUST like WE.

FAIL for me!
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Posted by: rgG
Date: July 01, 2008 08:42AM
Perhaps you guys need to order some of these. smiling smiley






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Posted by: Greg the dogsitter
Date: July 01, 2008 08:46AM
Great, rgG.

How am I supposed to get anything when browsing Google results like:

[honeybeemanor.com]
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Posted by: macbeergeek
Date: July 01, 2008 09:06AM
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Greg the dogsitter
I needed to copy a list of around twenty folder names from Windows Explorer into Word, so I wrote a Perl script to do it.

Wouldn't that make you a Geek, rather than Nerd?
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Posted by: edgarbc1
Date: July 01, 2008 09:19AM
is there a difference between Geek and Nerd?
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Posted by: macbeergeek
Date: July 01, 2008 09:42AM
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edgarbc1
is there a difference between Geek and Nerd?

Nerd: [en.wikipedia.org]

Geek: [en.wikipedia.org]

There are some overlapping similarities, but I suspect most of the folks on this forum would fall into the Geek category.
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Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: July 01, 2008 10:19AM
Speaking of geeks/nerds, one of my favorite shows on TV now is The Big Bang Theory. It's like my friends got their own TV show -- my people finally have a voice!


It is what it is.
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Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: July 01, 2008 11:09AM
LOVE that show!

VERY funny.

(And I seldom type in caps because-- wait for it-- IT JUST LOOKS WRONG. There's a whole "time and place" thing for using caps.)

And I like Penny. She's not "hot", but she's realistically good looking, shows some ta, and is quick of wit.

I've got all the episodes on torrent.

(Filed chronologically.)





I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.
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Posted by: mrbigstuff
Date: July 01, 2008 11:11AM
I was a nerd back in grammar school through high school, but I was a reading nerd. Those sorts of nerds seem to be endangered.

Once the computer age hit, I was left in the dust. That is when nerds became geeks. Well, some did and some did not.


[www.youtube.com]


Hurts like a bastid...
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Posted by: Filliam H. Muffman
Date: July 01, 2008 11:23AM
C:\ps2> dir /b /ad > dirlist.txt

dirlist.txt:
gta3 cheats
gta-vc cheats
gta-sa cheats
gow2 cheats


In tha 360. MRF User Map
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Posted by: deckeda
Date: July 01, 2008 12:25PM
I went to the company cafeteria with 20 pennies and 40 cents in nickels. I exchanged the pennies for two dimes with the cashier and put all of the resulting silver into a soda machine. Pushed the coin return to turn it into two quarters and and a dime.

You might ask, "why didn't you also turn the nickels into the cashier, and have the cashier give you the quarters, etc.? Doesn't that make you a dork, not a nerd?" Yes, I thought you might ask that.
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Posted by: Racer X
Date: July 01, 2008 01:13PM
geeks get some, nerds don't. Simple.
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Posted by: laarree
Date: July 01, 2008 05:00PM
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Racer X
geeks get some, nerds don't. Simple.





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*We are just a quarantined people under an evil sun.*
--- Richard S. Shaver
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Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: July 01, 2008 05:57PM
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Racer X
geeks get some, nerds don't. Simple.

Ah, I remember the night when I went from being a nerd to being a geek...


It is what it is.
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Posted by: laarree
Date: July 01, 2008 05:59PM
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N-OS X-tasy!
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Racer X
geeks get some, nerds don't. Simple.

Ah, I remember the night when I went from being a nerd to being a geek...

Was it teh snappy?



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*We are just a quarantined people under an evil sun.*
--- Richard S. Shaver
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Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: July 01, 2008 06:20PM
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laarree
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N-OS X-tasy!
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Racer X
geeks get some, nerds don't. Simple.

Ah, I remember the night when I went from being a nerd to being a geek...

Was it teh snappy?

Sure felt like it. I sure she thought so, too.


It is what it is.
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