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Thread: Announcing team “foobar”. New to WCG? Don’t have a team? Need help setting up things? |
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Former Member
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Join my new team.
Do something useful with your computer!!! Team web site http://www.foobar.dbmms.com Join me http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=22KT3DN42R1 Thanks, dbmms |
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Former Member
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Welcome dbmms!
Hope you have a great run! Thanks for coming to World Community Grid and good luck with your team! |
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Former Member
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Welcome dbmms! Hope you have a great run! Thanks for coming to World Community Grid and good luck with your team! Hi mate I'll second that Cheers Jacko |
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Welcome dbmms! Hope you have a great run! Thanks for coming to World Community Grid and good luck with your team! Hi mate I'll second that Cheers Jacko welcome to the crunching community good luck with your new team remember it takes time to build a team here dont loose heart at first if you dont get many joining stick with it yorkster |
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Former Member
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Welcome, and good luck with your team. Are you leaving SETI? I checked out your website, and it looks like much of the stats section has been shut down. And just for the record, aliens don't have butts; they are called erlisses and they are located between their antennas.
---------------------------------------- I do like the main picture, though.  Please check out my new website: www.2plus2is4.com. I'd appreciate any effort to promote it since it does benefit the entire community. Thanks. Cheers. Bill Velek P.S. What does "foobar" stand for? I know what fUbar is, but not fOObar.  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 21, 2006 3:29:04 PM] |
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Former Member
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 Foobar is a universal variable understood to represent whatever is being discussed.It's usually used in examples that illustrate concepts and ideas in computer science. For instance, a computer science professor may be discussing different file formats. In this case, he would call the generic-example file foo or foobar, then list the extensions associated with the file formats (e.g. foobar.txt, foobar.gif, foobar.exe, foobar.tar). When foo or foobar is used, everyone understands that these are just examples, and they don't really exist. Programmers and administrators also use foo and foobar in a similar context. Files or program s named with foo or foobar are understood not to be permanent and will be changed or deleted at anytime. Foo, bar, and the compound foobar were commonly used at MIT, Stanford and the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. Other generic variables are used other places, but only these three are considered universal. One last note: hackers never use foobar to mean fubar! BTW - I have one dedicated server for SETI@home but I putting my efforts now in the WCG. Join me - http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=22KT3DN42R1 BR, dbmms |
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Former Member
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Those who like words will be interested to know that foobar is a metasyntactic variable.
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Former Member
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Foobar is a universal variable understood to represent whatever is being discussed. ... snip ... For instance, a computer science professor may be discussing different file formats. In this case, he would call the generic-example file foo or foobar, then list the extensions associated with the file formats (e.g. foobar.txt, foobar.gif, foobar.exe, foobar.tar).When foo or foobar is used, everyone understands that these are just examples, and they don't really exist. ... snip ... Thanks, 'db'. When I was in college in the early 70's, I recall some of my teachers (economics, I think) used the term "widget". And of course I took "Intro to Data Processing" back in 1973 when they were still using key-punch cards  and I don't think personal computers even existed yet, or certainly would have been limited to the rare electronics hobbyist. <sigh> If only I had known then what I know now.Anyway, 'foobar' seems like it was just an arbitrary selection of syllables, so I wonder why someone would create a word that could be confused with 'fubar'. Heh, Heh, ... maybe it was intentional. Cheers. Bill Velek |
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Former Member
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<snip>Programmers and administrators also use foo and foobar in a similar context. Files or program s named with foo or foobar are understood not to be permanent and will be changed or deleted at anytime. <snip> Public i, j, k As Int32 Public foo As Object Public baz as Object Public TF As Boolean ...from this morning's code, and every other code project I've ever written: Traditional loop variables, catch-all foo and baz, and a re-usable pass/fail. Yes, it's all true. Nice site, BTW. Good luck on the crunching! Cheers FB |
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Former Member
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Thanks for the interest.
Join me http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=22KT3DN42R1 Thanks again,  dbmms |
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