Normal People16 Jun 2008 01:19 pm

/dev/twat

By Nelson

A whole new level of pointlessness. Thanks to the work of a bored drunkard, the Twat-O-Tron has become /dev/twat.

Before you visit this link, ask yourself a few questions. Are you wearing a Glastonbury t-shirt from the 1980s? Does it have a CAMRA badge on it? Does your belly obscure your feet? Do you ever find yourself wishing for an accepted standard concerning the range of bar snacks that MUST, MAY or SHOULD be served?

If the answer to any of these questions is “no” then don’t bother visiting this link. You won’t like it.

http://sites.google.com/site/devtwatotron/Home

I have a girlfriend.

13 Responses to “/dev/twat”

  1. on 16 Jun 2008 at 1:37 pm   aSbo BAz

    Oh great! Techie handbag wars. I’m sure if I was a pale and fragile youth living some solitary nocturnal existence, utterly alone except for cyber-contact, then I would understand what the fuck you are talking about. I might even care.

  2. on 16 Jun 2008 at 1:56 pm   Evil Lu

    It’s not very happy with 64bit Ubuntu. That’d serve me right for using something not dissimilar to Vista.

    People on the internet don’t have girlfriends.

  3. on 16 Jun 2008 at 2:02 pm   Nelson

    aSbo BAz: There’s no handbag war. This is techie back-scratching and mutual appreciation.

    You realise this is how HYS happens? You even made the classic HYS mistake of pretty much saying “I don’t understand anything about this but..”

    I wouldn’t want to tar you with the HYS brush though. The thing you haven’t got a clue about it is stupid and unimportant :)

  4. on 16 Jun 2008 at 4:34 pm   Em

    I don’t have a girlfriend OR understand…

  5. on 16 Jun 2008 at 5:35 pm   Beano

    My girlfriend doesn’t understand me… is that relevant? :-)

  6. on 16 Jun 2008 at 5:35 pm   Jordan

    Unrelated, but I like to think that Twat-O-Tron is some sort of futuristic, Irish wanker…
    Well, I don’t particularly LIKE to think it, but I do.

  7. on 16 Jun 2008 at 7:06 pm   fnordianslip

    I tyhought this was great at first, but then I noticed that thwe 0.2 version has now got mutex locks. I hate mutex locks. Mine never work.when I was young we never had to lock anything. What has happened to Solaris these days.

  8. on 16 Jun 2008 at 8:43 pm   Alex

    Have you tried switching it off and then on again?

  9. on 16 Jun 2008 at 9:06 pm   Tom

    Could you explain what the bastard fuck this is for those spanners amongst us who didn’t have a clue what dev/twat is? I went on the link, read some stuff clicked on something else and nowt happened.

  10. on 16 Jun 2008 at 9:52 pm   Mr Clovis

    Tom,
    With those credentials, there’s a job for you in IT.

  11. on 17 Jun 2008 at 4:57 am   The Gnome Secretary

    Could you explain what the bastard fuck this is for those spanners amongst us who didn’t have a clue what dev/twat is?

    On many non-Microsoft Windows pooters (like the Mac, for example) /dev/ is a folder containing interfaces for the devices plugged into the computer. Such as the keyboard, mouse, hard drives etc.

    So this nut job wrote some software that creates a fake device: /dev/twat-o-tron which, when you run a certain non-Microsoft Windows-ey 1337 command on it (not for n00bs!!111oneone), spews some HYS bile.

    If you don’t have Solaris (or don’t know what it is) then just stick to the good-ole Web version. You’re not missing out on anything, mostly the object of this post is just showing off to their fellow geeks.

    I for one will await the Linux port, before getting excited. And if there’s anything wrong with the above explanation of /dev/ it’s probably because I was simplifying it. Don’t correct me: I’ll get MI5 to go through your wheelie-bin; then order them to steal your washing in the name of NationalSecurity(tm).

  12. on 17 Jun 2008 at 9:56 am   James

    Mr Clovis- it means you can have a tiny Topsy Turvey inside your typewriter-tellybox machine.

  13. on 18 Jun 2008 at 2:24 pm   Em

    There, there, Beano - try the barmaid ;-)

    Or, if all else fails, her sister