Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @gothick ever

July 12th, 2011

@MizzWorthy @tsunimee Anyway, m’dears, I must head for bed before I pass the point of sleepiness and head for insomnia.

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@tsunimee @MizzWorthy Jokes that rely on language tricks are a bit risky with this crowd.

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@tsunimee @MizzWorthy Also, unlike you bouncy awake types, I’m ker-knackered.

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@tsunimee @MizzWorthy I can’t remember any more jokes that are appropriately Twitter-length.

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@MizzWorthy @tsunimee What noise does an exploding monkey make?

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@tsunimee You are actually bouncing up and down, aren’t you?

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@jbrownridge Sark. Sark. Took me right back to a particular episode of this: http://bit.ly/qCeDhf but I can’t remember which one, damn it.

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@emmafurious @RamonYouseph Someone may have missed out on the “when in hole, stop digging” advice.

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talkie_tim Just happily killed 40 minutes waiting for the train by reading old Harry Harrison crime stories over here: harryharrison.wordpress.com

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@RamonYouseph @emmafurious So, looks like he would have been okay until he pretended to be someone else to defend himself. D’oh.

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@RamonYouseph @emmafurious He was suspended today, I believe.

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RichNeville Haven’t seen any news in 2 hours, so I assume at the present rate of developments the queen’s been arrested and we’re at war with Australia.

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@BlackDogDays I know nothing of the circumstances at all. Who knows, maybe it’ll re-open…

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@parryphernalia It is not going, so far. I did get out last Thursday for the first time in ages. Planning on getting out again tomorrow.

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It’s a duck in a cup. This is the internet, after all. I have a quota to fill. http://bit.ly/nJwzSq

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@daycoder Suitably snappy, I’ll give you that…

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@simondebrux Awkward to say. But maybe that’s just me.

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My suspicion is that the current revelations will continue until a suitably snappy word has been found to suffix with “-gate”.

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Adam and Eve pub closure confirmed by sign in locked entranceway :( http://instagr.am/p/Hgsu…

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Playing with Synthcam combined with Swankolab. http://lockerz.com/s/119…

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@EmmyThomps Oddly, I randomly sang that exact line out loud to myself just after waking up this morning. HMHB mind-control ray?

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@panic No screencast yet, but I dropped you an email after I figured out what was going on.

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@daycoder No probs. I got my degree at a unix-heavy Uni (Warwick), and then carried on doing it for twenty years :)

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@daycoder Well, I’ve blundered around on Macs with admin privilege for a few years now, and not broken anything.

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@daycoder In my experience, most Mac-using old-school unix geeks use an account with Admin privs day-to-day.

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@daycoder (And does your user definitely have “Allow user to administer this computer” in user prefs?

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@daycoder You said you promoted yourself to admin, right? Did you log out and back in again afterwards? Might make a difference.

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@daycoder Hrm. By the looks of the default /etc/sudoers file, any admin user should be okay. I’m not specifically mentioned in mine.

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@daycoder But really, *be careful* when you’re root.

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@daycoder Having enabled it, though, you don’t actually need *its* password to su to it. Try “sudo su -” from a terminal, and give *your* PW

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@daycoder Follow these instructions to enable the root user: http://hints.macworld.co…

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@daycoder You don’t need root PW. First off (one time only) enable root account.

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@daycoder …but 140 characters is not the best medium for stuff like this!

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@daycoder Depending on the method, I’d install 2.7 in /usr/local (as root, using sudo/su), then try to install packages to match.

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@daycoder Some, but that seems like odd things to be looking at if you’re using Apple’s pre-installed python…

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@daycoder Ah, sorry; I know OS X fairly well, but not python.

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@panic Seeing some crazy cut & paste behaviour in Coda 1.7.2. Any known issues? (Pasted text changing after paste, undo-able.)

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@soba_girl Well, his own would be his “crew”, I believe.

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@MrMattAnderson I wonder if these gorillas could have been self-funding if they’d had a coin slot in the top!

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@BenPark Nope! Not much preparation, from what I remember.

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@BenPark Hopefully people aren’t judging me by the book list! Mostly these are “okay, but won’t read again” books…

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@BenPark Not something I’d ever want to try out; feels creepy. Interesting book, though. Book by Mr L about not buying anything for a year!

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@BristolBuddies Well, it sounds like one to me, if you’ve got somewhere it might fit.

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@BristolBuddies How on earth… Wait. This is going to need more than 140 characters, isn’t it?

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