What a wonderful site!

Hey guys,

I'm a 28yo IT Manager and being interested in computers since I was 8/9 (Amstrad 464+). I always considered myself fairly knowledgable and with a wide variety of skills, programming/networking/security etc etc. I've been a member/mod/admin on numerous sites over the years and have just joined Antionline.

All I can say is wow! I feel as if I'm back as a kid with my eyes wide open with the prospect of such knowledge widely available through the medium of this site's members.

I am currently just lurking and reading with the odd post but just thought I'd put my "thanks" forward in advance to the site and it's members, glad I found it and look forward to being here for quiet a while!

Cheers,
Wolfe.

You are welcome, I invented AO. Well not I didn't not even close hah. Welcome to the forum buddy. Enjoy your visits and make sure to share your knowledge as well! :-)

Hmmmm................

Them: JPNyc and Intmon need watchin.............;)

Welcome as said. Please remember that we are a forum, so everyone has an opinion and may express it, even though they do not agree with me and are totally wrong. Scam, spam, illegal, impolite, and you are history!

After all, I am only one of those who strides across the battlefield finishing off the wounded.

So resigned Johnno :D ..."resigned"............ hmmm........... possibly more "slumped behind his Lite .50"

:eek4:

Ok not gonna even try and understand that:

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So resigned Johnno ..."resigned"............ hmmm........... possibly more "slumped behind his Lite .50"

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But look forward to lurking for a bit before posting.

Wolfe,

Please contact a recruiter now?.....................

http://www.marines.com/page/M82-Sniper-Rifle.jsp

;)

That is the Barrett Lite 50.................. it fires the Browning .50 cal round?

Welcome to the forum, and feel free to jump right in. And in case you're worried about it, studies show that normal polarized sunglasses will prevent the forum yellow from doing any permanent damage to your retinas

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Welcome to the forum, and feel free to jump right in. And in case you're worried about it, studies show that normal polarized sunglasses will prevent the forum yellow from doing any permanent damage to your retinas

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LIES it's all LIES.. :D

anyhow to the OP welcome to AO, there's plenty to read and when you are taking a break why not hit the AntiOnline Tools & Toys section and waste a few hours;)

http://www.antionline.com/tools-and-toys/

Cheers guys, and thanks for the link nihil. :-)

Teabags....................

Go tell it to the Marines

:p:D

Don't got marines over here - just the rangers!

Shrekkies huh? (green faces) ............ Wolfe, whilst we are a serious site, some drunkards still stalk the place :D and we do have a sense of humour ?

Wolfe Tone ............... the Irish uprising of 1797............ the British were going to hang him............ but he was a brigadier general in the French army, and Napoleon threatened reprisals .............. of course it must have been the devil himself who put the words of "those" songs into my head? ............. or maybe it was "Dublin granny"

:drink:

Very good nihil - very quick!!!

Eh, what's this sites IRC?

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LIES it's all LIES.. :D

anyhow to the OP welcome to AO, there's plenty to read and when you are taking a break why not hit the AntiOnline Tools & Toys section and waste a few hours;)

http://www.antionline.com/tools-and-toys/

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You can still see, can't ya? ;)

Hi Wolfe,

We don't have an IRC, just private messaging. There was IRC in the past, but, as I am sure you understand, it just cannot be moderated 24/7, and some totally unacceptable stuff got posted?

" Oh give me a parabellum and a couple of dozen shells,
and lead me to the Murder Gang, I'll blow them all to hell.............."

Have you ever walked along Talbot Street?

;)

http://www.antionline.com/faq/faq.ph...aqnr=49&prog=1

Just because it is on the menu, doesn't mean that we are serving it tonight ;)

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Hi Wolfe,

Have you ever walked along Talbot Street?

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Maybe once or twice!

Sorry - usually post quicker but running Darik's Boot and Nuke on a laptop here and installing Backtrack/Slackware on another PC while trying to watch Prison Break and having a :drink:

"And the radio said was another shot dead,
and he died with a gun in his hand'
but they never said why Billy Reid had to die,
he died..............."

My teacher went to school with him..............;)

How times have changed, I was pretty young when it was taking place, so only have the vague memories. Both sides made some pretty bad moves during the troubles and a lot of innocent people got hurt, but thankfully it seems to be moving in the right direction now.

It must be hard going at the moment for you with the latest threats such as Glasgow and the recent pipe bomb in the car last week.

Hey Wolfe, I agree entirely............ I spent a few weeks in Belfast in the mid 70's. Harland & Wolf shipyard............. I said to the finance director: "by the way I am a Roman Catholic, does that matter?" I shall never forget his reply: "of course not Johnno, you are English" :eek:

There is a lot of hypocrisy here my friend?

British MP: "We will not surrender sovereignty" [ But we would get rid of it tomorrow because it is costing each British taxpayer £400 per year]

Dublin TD: "We want the 32 counties" [ not really because we would have to increase taxation by about €5,000 per head]

Belfast Unionist: "No surrender" [ But if we join with the 26 counties we would have enough TDs to hold the balance of power......... and we are politically irrelevant in Westminster]

Belfast Republican: "United Ireland" [ But we would lose our social security benefits and the Unionists would hold the balance of power]

I guess that what they say and what they mean are different?

Not that I am cynical me bucum :D

Pretty much agree with your sentiments, it is improving and there is no where near the same amount of hostility as there used to be, but there are still housing estates that you would not enter, either from a republican or unionist perspective.

I think the real problem in the North was a lack of weed in the 70s!!!!

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I think the real problem in the North was a lack of weed in the 70s!!!!

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Interesting!................. flax grows there quite well so hemp should do likewise? :hippy:

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Hi Wolfe,

We don't have an IRC, just private messaging. There was IRC in the past, but, as I am sure you understand, it just cannot be moderated 24/7, and some totally unacceptable stuff got posted?

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IIRC, IRC was discontinued when Jupermedia purchased the website. There were threads around at the time with discussion on this topic. I remember the main point being made about advertising in IRC, and how it was not really possible, and so no point in spending resources keeping it going.

Shame really.

Also, welcome to WolfeTone!

I don't think that was the main point. The company would be inclined to do anything that would make the site more popular, advertising or no. The big problem is there is no way to police it. Anything that is in our name requires that we maintain some type of behavioral standard

Would it not be useful to have an IRC channel that is locked unless one of the MODs or Admins are present, be useful for discussions on the community or lectures.

I do not think so.

1. IRC is very much passe as far as today's net is concerned.
2. There have been numerous attempts to recreate an AO IRC but all have died due to general apathy.
3. This is an international site, so anything that was not open 24/7 would die very quickly.
4. Professional IT sites don't have chatrooms............ this is AO not AOL :D
5. IRC is ephemeral, and therefore, irrelevant. Professional discussion sites must have some permanence so the contents get indexed and can be looked up.

:)

Yeah fair points.

So if a major change has to talk place for AO, how do the admins/mods discuss?
Just trying to understand the community a bit more.

Hi Wolfe,

Communication is via the forums or PM or the good ole telephone............hey Tyler....... have you forgiven me for waking you at about 03.30hrs your time? :D

Your questions have made me think about the newer technologies of "webinars", conferencing, and suchlike.

I still see our multinationalism to be a problem............. like when we have 12.00hrs our American pals have between -5 and -8 hours and my Indian mates are +5.5 hours. Australian cobbers would be +9.5 or more?

The only solution as I see it is for JupM to buy me a beach bar in Hawaii?

Then I would be GMT -12 and permanently p1$$ED

:drink:

We use mostly e-mail, unless it's time sensitive

Ok, fair enough point, but I think nihil is on to something with the beach bar!!! :D

Indeed he is, and we're going to meet in Blackpool next week to discuss it further!

Are you really going all the way there JP??!!

You can stop over in Ireland for a pint of the black stuff on the way, visit me and Ennis and any other Irish in here!

Yes indeed I am. Actually nihil is also traveling, since he's on the East Coast of the country.
WolfeTone, Ireland will be next year. This year is the Northern UK and especially Scotland.

Oh very good, business/please/both?

Scotland, go to Edinborugh and Glasgow (only parts of it)

Pleasure entirely. I have three good friends who live in England; one in the south, one in the mids, and one in the north, but this trip I'll be visiting the one in the north. We rented a flat in Edinburgh, right on the Royal mile. But before we drive up to Edinburgh, I'll be meeting nihil in Blackpool. I was there last year also

Nice to see all the miles don't stop friendship in the online community!

Absolutely. This friend and I met because of his fondness for American baseball, and I had the privilege of facilitating his first trip to the United States, and taking him to his first ballgame. A very very long time ago he was stationed in Germany and met a couple of American servicemen from Brooklyn, Dodgers fans, and they got him into baseball

How small a world it truely is!!

I've always noticed that people who considered themselves "hackers" years ago and who have turned away from that description now due to the how the world views anybody attached to that title, in essence what I would call an "old school hacker" 99% of the time seem to be openly friendly and quiet willing to facilitate anybody from anywhere once they share the same "old school" philosopy on life - whether they were of a computer background or not.

That make sense??

Actually I'm a web developer, security, and breaching it, are not my areas of expertise. But I admin 30 forums for this company, covering every topic that there is in the world of I.T., so it would be pretty tough to find someone expert in all of them. And if you found them, odds are they'd be unaffordable.

But yes that does make sense.