[Bubba]

God it's slow in here today......which isn't helping my boredom levels.

Here I am, running XSL benchmarks on a pc that keeps crashing every hour. New one comes tomorrow though - with a CD burner, heh heh!!!

Massive broadband + CD burner = sore temptation to download everything I possiby can from everywhere.....

[dave]

Ditto - next week i get a new work PC, new monitor, mouse, keyboard, CD burner, DVD playa, plus i'll have administrator rights on it so i can put QT etc on it.
 :worthy:
MI SAY BO SELECTA

[Bubba]

Ain't it fun! I'll have admin rights but not sure if the proxy servers will allow me to install winmx - in fact, if I try I'll probably have the security peeps dragging me down to security for a good kicking. Bit tight on security at this place  :cry:

Still, I could still be a mainframe programmer starting at a dumb terminal with no web-access, so it could be a lot worse.

mmmmm... an afternoon of xsl here we come...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

[Bubba]

Oh no, I'm a fookin' GEEK!

[dave]

If you wanna be a geek then help me out with this one - my dad sent me this question, and knowing him its something to do with programming languages, or something like binary or hex or something like that:

Fill in the missing number:

10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  20  22  24  31  100  ...  10000

Its probably really obvious but i can't see it yet.....

?? :?:  :?:  :?: ?? :uhoh:

[Bubba]

Well..... I cheated but the answer is: 121

I just used google, but it's basically like this:

start on 10 (base 16/hex)
which is 11 is base 15
12 (base 14)
13 (base 13)
etc etc
121 (base 3)
1000 (base 2 / binary)

Oh dear, I'm really digging a hole now, aren't I ?  

[dave]

Nice one geeza! I tried using google but got sweet FA.

I suppose its quite easy really but i never would have thought of it. I'm pretty old fashioned really, cos i generally count in base 10.

Like the old saying goes, theres only 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.

[Bubba]

theres only 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.

Now that's an impressively geeky joke - congratulations sir, you're well on the way to geekdom!