Babbling 'brook

...Definitely no hijacking there but it wasn't realtime and wasn't as relaxed as here. If people think it's relaxed here then I'm obviously not doing my job properly. :twisted: *goes off to think up some new rules* Dammit! Limey, come back! We'll behave! See what you've done...he'll be checking our...

Grumpy Old Man wrote:

T.C.B. wrote:

Flash Gordon wrote:You've had your brain pierced haven't you?

Eh no. That'd be dangerous.... like making a baloon burst.

Balloon, how did you get 92%

Threats of violence no doubt

jezzer wrote:There you go Flash, bigging up Grumpy. Are you guys bosom buddies or what?

Hes one of his top ten friends

Crash wrote:Don't mind the knockers. It's possible.

Doesn't matter. The chap is getting married, which is major event, and I, for one, wish him well

Darce wrote:
the joke being that COBOL is so established, that it'll be ever present for like thousands of years to come.

Thats true enough, you should have seen the bunfight every year by the likes of ourselves, Accenture, IBM and EDS etc over UL CSIS graduates just because they had experience in COBOL

ruck wrote:

Dave Cahill wrote:Phds etc are very useful, but only one thing guarentees you a job in the IT industry.


COBOL

What level of Cobol? I was fairly handy with that a few years ago.

did nothing but COBOL for about six or seven years

Phds etc are very useful, but only one thing guarentees you a job in the IT industry. COBOL Dave, have you seen the joke about cobol and cobol programmers in Futurama???? RE: Unix, Im doin the Information Systems stream in CA, so we dont get the opportunity to us linux/unix too much. Our best chanc...

DC,, i know im gonna regret asking this but is COBOL the language that banks etc use, please keep answer under 1000 words, I know how you tech heads like to go on!! :wink: COmmon Business Oriented Language is indeed the language that is used by most of the worlds Financial Services industry. Nearly...

Phds etc are very useful, but only one thing guarentees you a job in the IT industry.


COBOL

T.C.B. wrote:Ireland.

Oh no wait.....

Spain

Should be banned. As should photos/pictures etc. Signatures should be limited to (short) texts or quotes. Anyone else agree or disagree? If you are referring to ePaddy's signature then I must point out that it is not a video. it's an image file (Animated GIF). It actually is quite small file size. ...

T.C.B. wrote:

Leinsterman wrote:Fluid mechanics wasn't too bad for 1st to 3rd year in UCD. However, in 4th year Mech - uh, it was a feckin' nightmare.

For a second there I thought my sister was online writing that!

Well has anyone actually seen your sister and LM in the same room at the same time

Hmmmm

Depends on the file size, less than 100 kb, it should be okay, otherwise I agree. If you're using Firefox and the troubling file is remotely linked from another site, you can right click on the vid and select "Block Images from..."

In principle I agree however

Hey, I didn't ask for them... But if they're put in front of me... What's a lady to do? It's impolite not to drink them :) Absolutely! One must never let ones standards drop Indeed... Anyway Babe, I'm off to sleep... Enjoy breakfast on Saturday, think of me when I'm in my exam.. Night Night LL, if ...

Leinster Lady wrote:Hey, I didn't ask for them... But if they're put in front of me...

What's a lady to do? It's impolite not to drink them

Absolutely! One must never let ones standards drop

jeez, what have I become? The SVP of alcohol by the sounds of things

Don't know what he's talking about Dave. Cavan is a wonderful place. I've even managed to enjoy myself at a funeral there. Cavan people throw the best funerals...it might seem like a mad thing to say, but its true Agreed, and I didn't even know the deceased. Not that I look up the death notices for...

Its been a while since I was at a wedding in cavan actually