I often verb Amazon, google and lastminute; though as a unix geek when searching I tend to "grep" rather than "google". One interesting thing about the net is the jargon you use tends to indicate how long you've been online, which has the unfortunate side effect of revealing if you're an old, long-time geek or a newbie
New words from the net?
I was talking to someone last night about the book I sent my mum for Mother's Day, which I saw in a shop but I didn't buy at the time because I wanted to check if she had it already, and I realised I'd finished by saying 'Anyway, it's easier just to amazon it than buy a copy and post it.'
Thinking back, I realised that I quite often use amazon as a verb, and sometimes google, which I use as a noun as well ('doing a google'). Does anyone else do this, or have any others that they use like that?
Thinking back, I realised that I quite often use amazon as a verb, and sometimes google, which I use as a noun as well ('doing a google'). Does anyone else do this, or have any others that they use like that?
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by Callum
unix geek
What is unix anyway, I remeber on waynes world 2 garths girlfriend had a unix book never could figure out what it was s'pose to be?
It's a computer operating system, generally used for "serious" work (industry, research, critical systems, infrastructure), been around for about 3 decades in a variety of forms, most of the big names have put out a version at one time or another, though the main ones these days are probably Sun's Solaris, HP's HPUX, IBM'AIX and the open source "free" varients such as Linux.