A Conversation for Hexadecimal Rag
A little background
shagbark Started conversation Jan 22, 2011
a little over forty years ago I took a night course in IBM 360 hoping that it would lead to a job in programming.
It never happened.
On the last night of the course they rented time on a computer from a bank and we got to see what we had done in the course compiled.
Without exception none of our programs would run.
The feedback from that computer was the genesis of this song, which I still occasionally sing.
and that is backdrop. Let us hope what we are doing with hootoo will have a happier ending.
A little beat
shagbark Posted Jan 22, 2011
the rhythm on the chorus is short, short ,long
like so
un de FINED key word OP erand
or ex CESS ive key word OP erand
you've got TO speak in HEX adecimal
if you WANT to be UN derstood.
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A T Hun Posted Jan 22, 2011
I like the little poem/song.
I think it's the first mention of some of the Issues I've been having today, here...
A little rejection
shagbark Posted Jan 22, 2011
probably because you used a < to start and a > to end.
the system seems to think everything so encompassed is obscene.
I informed the editors of this in the bug reports two days ago.
A little rejection
shagbark Posted Jan 22, 2011
incase you are wondering < is markup code for the less than symbol
> is the markup code for the greater than symbol. 
A little rejection
shagbark Posted Jan 22, 2011
apparently we can use smileys in this forum.
They were considered obscene in my Journal entries.
A little rejection
shagbark Posted Jan 22, 2011
when I say in the journal < ;erm> ; (without the spaces before the 
it will accept it
but if I say 
it goes to
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shagbark Posted Jan 22, 2011
another curiosity when I read I ve in newhootoo I see apostrophes.
when I read it in brunel it turns them into markup code.
so what do you suppose it would do with acute;
A little rejection
shagbark Posted Jan 22, 2011
in brunel I can say ´ which with a space would be ´ ;
but such codes in newhootoo seem to be verboten.
A little rejection
A T Hun Posted Jan 22, 2011
This socks. I keep getting internal server errors too, alot now... What was that i heard, NooToo?
The preview actually shows the smiley, then same.. From what I have experienced here, now, I hope I can post thiss.
;^)
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