#TodayILearned that @jsnover is another ex-MUMPSie
I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone that worked in Mumps that didn’t either work for hoskyns or one of our clients
(From @concentrateddon ‘Shell of an Idea’, which I’m enjoying very much)
Jeffrey Snover @jsnover Feb 15, 2022 I wrote the backend of the world’s first MUMPs compiler. I was at Greystone technology and I also wrote ALL the database code (I think we had 3 DBs), the mgmt interfaces, the debugger (that was fun!), and loads more
RT @tim_rolls: Every Bilko episode. On YouTube. Now. Arguably the funniest sitcom ever.
Twitter STILL don’t let you report a tweet on the basis that it’s a Wordle spoiler
@NadineDorries needs to get them to sort it out
My word of the day today is ‘nebulous’.
Started watching Don’t Look Up.
Given there’s so many famous people in it, it’s nice that it starts with a quote from Bob Monkhouse
RT @ArtyBagger: Does anyone know why Italian restaurants don’t trust you to grind your own black pepper?
It’s not just London that’s blue #ClubWorldCup #CHEPAL #ChelseaFc
Ennis Blues > Palmeiras Dublin
#ChePal
Point of information.
Surely a fish would rot from the head sideways, not from the head down?
#bbcaq @tweeter_anita
Bognor Butlins Pop Quiz champion first week of August 1988
Max Rushden 💛🖤@maxrushden Question for radio.
What’s the worst/least impressive trophy you have on show in your house?
#TodayILearned that Nadhim Zahawi founded YouGov, and his family only just escaped Saddam Hussein
It says here that it’s 10 years since the late, lamented Word magazine
What the absolute flip?
#NicheGrumpyOldManTweet www.patreon.com/wordinyou…
My dragons den idea:
Like wordle, but once installed if you fail to get the word then your phone self-destructs
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
My word of the day today is ‘frothy’.
More on #Powershell language modes here:
Errors might be
Cannot invoke method. Method invocation is supported only on core types in this language mode
Cannot set property. Property setting is supported only on core types in this language mode
Importing *.ps1 files as modules is not allowed in ConstrainedLanguage mode
#TodayILearned* that if your Powershell on a company laptop gets stuck in constrained language mode then it may be that a Software Restriction Policy has changed then you need to change your TEMP and/or TMP environment variables to a permitted folder
*tbh, #TodayIReLearned
#TodayILearned that you can disable a service in Powershell like this:
get-service -computername SomeComputer -name ‘SomeService’ | Set-Service -StartupType disabled
#TodayILearned that ‘macaronic’ means songs or writing or talking which switches between plus d’une langue en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maca…