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The Oct Dec thing.
Yeah old.
:yawn:
Upvote for making me realise the date today.
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Octal. Hmm, 3 bits huh? Never seen it used my whole life.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Know what you mean, GCSE computer studies we had to learn how to do it (and hex), started programming assembly thinking it might come in useful (use hex pretty much every project) Octal never! 
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You never programmed on any old DEC equipment (such as the PDP-8[^]), where octal was the standard. Any machine that had a 12-bit word typically used octal.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I'm not quite mature enough to have used such a thing. Even so, surely 3 hexidecimal digits would have been more use than 4 octal?
Anything not a power of 2 goes against things rather, but perhaps people were happy stopping at 7 rather than the more obscure 0xf.
When people start taking my idea of a 33 bit processor seriously, then perhaps it will have a resurgence!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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That's a stretch.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I thought it was going to be about corned beef...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Now I am hungry. Let the games begin.
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Hey, if you have to explain a joke...
Or rather, if you have to explain that joke, you're not on CP.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Write a Halloween or scary microfiction, a complete story in only 55 words including title.
Unexpected Visitors
The Thing stepped through the portal, three tentacles picking up Professor Smith while a fourth smashed the emergency override.
“How kind of you to invite us to dinner,” it rumbled as a second Thing stepped through, then a third. “We will have such a delicious time on your world, I am quite certain.”
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Boo!
Boo!
The end.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Smarter than the average bear?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Forogar wrote: Boo!
Boo Who!
Why are you crying?
FTFY
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Quote: Why are you crying?
...because you have just butchered my artistic, minimalist, deep, intellectual work with your crass editing bordering on vandalism!
Not that I care very much really...no, really, I don't care. I dont! Don't try and say I do because I don't, you hear me? Huh? Huh? Huh?  
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Unexpected Visitors
Welcome to Dr Fibula's House of Terror said the limping flunky as he opened the door.
There, sat in his sofa of reasonable comfort was the Doctor.
"I have been expecting you" he said.
"Surely not" I replied, opening my briefcase and extracting the small Hello Kitty Death-o-matic ray gun.
I shot the flunky.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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We're Doomed
The Scotsman rolled his eyes and leaned closer.
"Have you heard the story about the ooooooooold empty barn?" he whispered mysteriously.
"......there was nothing in it."
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I do know things, not much relevant to anything I do, mostly random cr@p as shown 
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 My head is packed with random crap!
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Thought you were going to:
"You know you look like a sheep?"
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The lovely evening
The family sat at home on the evening of October the 31st.
Fortunately as the were in the UK and not American they didn't have to get involved in that ridiculous halloween nonsense and instead occupied themselves with a nice meal and discussing the forthcoming bonfire night on the 5th of November.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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a ghostly voice sailed across the moors...."remember, remember the 5th of november......."
MCAD
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A Tale of Terror
It was a dark and stormy night when the apparition appeared at the door; a ghostly pallor on its hideous, pock-marked face half hidden by rancid locks of lank hair tumbling across the misshapen nose jutting from the angular face.
"Honey, the pizza's arrived!"
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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