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See the T Shirt

http://www.cashncarrion.co.uk/products/16064/682/

(No I'm not affiliated with them)

I think your crystal ball is a little cloudy. Mainframes will be with us for a very long time to come, but that "legacy" code is exactly the reason. If we learned anything from Y2K (besides the fact that a concerted effort can head off a disaster), it should be that we're not going to re-write and replace those old programs and systems unless we absolutely have to. So, the next time your job goes to India and all you get is that lousy t-shirt, start looking at mainframe shops and go convince the managers that you've got a lot of skills and just need some training. They expect to have to train people, so they're always looking for folks who can learn and become productive.

and have a look about half-way down the page for the "glow in the dark" keyrings. Quote:

"Inside each GlowRing is a single sealed glass tube which contains a minute amount of active gas that permanently reacts with a luminescent coating."

Translation: "active gas" == tritium.

I've got a couple on order at the moment, for geek-type Xmas presents. They limit sales to UK customers only.

"Please note that due to international regulations regarding this item THIS PRODUCT IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO UK RESIDENTS AND CANNOT BE SENT TO ANY ADDRESS OUT OF THE COUNTRY."

Not being a UK Subject, I probably shouldn't buy the TShirt, but here in the US we've got our own problems with the RealID act giving us a real national ID card real soon unless we stop it.

Oh please, I've got one of these, And it's filled with tritium. And I'm still alive, and I still have 10 toes, 8 fingers and 2 thumbs.

This "Nuclear is bad because they made big bombs out of it" is getting old. You can make perfectly good bombs/explosives without using any nuclear reactions AND it's far far easier.

Of course, you can't buy them in paranoically advantaged countries like the US, but a couple of years ago I bought a bunch as Christmas presents for all the members of my family --- they're surprisingly useful.

I like the one available now fromt the Register http://www.cashncarrion.co.uk/cnb/shop/cashncarrio n. There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those wo don't.

You mean something like this t-shirt?

I think it's ironic, but I'm not quite sure.

Perhaps OSDN should send the defendant, accused in 2001 of reading users emails in order to find out what they were interested in purchasing from Amazon, a T-shirt from ThinkGeek?"

Can someone point me to an easy-to-read article that explains the problems with IE, what alternatives like Firefox exist, and how to switch? I want to send it to everyone I know, urging them to switch away from IE.

Here you go!

Seriously, though, this article from Forbes is a little dated, and doesn't mention security, but isn't bad. It's worth trawling through Mozillazine's archives - I couldn't find them just now, but I seem to remember a while back they had a whole bunch of "why switch?" articles.

Well atleast you can get one of this favarate Tees from The Register's Cash'n'carrion online store

My job went to India and all I got was this lousy T shirt.

Well atleast you can get one of this favarate Tees from The Register's Cash'n'carrion online store

My job went to India and all I got was this lousy T shirt.

They link to a product called a USB watch...

Apparently the plug is on a cable that slides out of the watch. I can't imagine using a USB storage device that physically tethers me to the computer.

I prefer to psychologically tether myself.

All the UN needs to know about spam is right here. >:-)

The companion book seems, uh, interesting too. :)

The thing is, I wish the real O'Reilly would print Pratical UNIX Terrorism. I would pay good money for that book, just for the bragging rights of simply owning it.

Delivering Clue to Users An o'reilly book never written

I would definatly recommend a Swiss Army Cyber Tool. It has been the most useful bit of kit I have for working on PCs and you can do a lot of things just with it yet it still fits in your pocket. Granted its no substitute for a proper tool kit but a good quick tool.

He could have linked back to El Reg or at least credited them.

Is a swiss army knife.
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