The solution is obvious, tie it in with your electronic toll-road pass. If a city has no (or is not near to another with) toll roads, it probably doesn't have *that* big of a downtown parking problem, either.
Dislocated right middle finger Friday, so touch typing (in Dvorak, on a DAS Keyboard) is a bit interesting. Amazing how many words use R, N or W...
Learned cursive in the late 60's, L.A. public school, 4th grade. As the only lefty in the room, I followed teacher & classmate's lead, straight across, none of that upside-down stuff I've seen other southpaw's employ.
Result? Absolutely horrid handwriting, constant smears on palm from dragging it over the just-laid-down words. By 6th I'd resigned myself to a form of blocky printing. These days, the only time I use a pen is for signatures or birthday cards.
Side note: Grampa's cursive was fair, but he had to use his right hand as they tied the 'real' one behind his back. At least 60 years had improved our society's educational policies that much...
If you're not used to socializing with other people, that's the place to start. Sure the end-goal may to find a mate, but at first you need to be able to chat in general, whether the other party be male, or female.
Find a place that has Guinness or some comparably palatable beverage on tap, sit at the bar with your latest favorite book (a murder-mystery, something light, NOT a manual!), and be prepared to get sidetracked by those around you. Afternoon's (around happy hour) would be a better time than night. Who reads in a bar at night? The light's not good.
It'll take awhile, but before long you'll develop some gabbing skills.
More likely the salt is following the magnetic flow, rather than the other way around.
Don't recall the show, just saw something on one of the science channels wherein some scientists made a planetary model (a big rotating ball of liquid sodium around a free-floating iron ball), their theory being it is the rotational difference between the outer molten core and the solid inner core that causes our magnetic field. In the model, once the thing came up to speed, it generated a field similar to the Earth's magnetosphere.
Also, the field has reversed itself (pointing in to the planet, allowing radiation in, rather than keeping it out) many times. Just check out cores from any long-standing lava flows. We seem to be starting another flip, partially evidenced by holes in our magnetosphere ( ahref=http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/17/2352243/rel=url2html-31969http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/17/2352243/> ).
If this rotational difference is in fact where our magnetic field comes from, tinfoil had mode says exploiting geothermal energy is ultimately a no-no. Go solar!
It's always the punch tool (a Palladin I've had for years, but there are many good ones out there. Do *NOT* use a five dollar punch tool!) into either jacks with surface mount "biscuits" or straight into the patch panel, and pre-made patch cables. Then the Fluke gets his turn, just to make sure everything's kosher from end to end.
My local 'puter store has 5' to 10' pre-mades for just a few bucks, hard to beat.
Discounting the wire, even if you go to your local building supply mega-store, you're looking at less than $10 for a jack/biscuit/pre-made patch cord, and the knowledge when there's trouble that your cabling isn't part of the issue.
Plus, if for some reason the extension needs to be a bit longer (moving a rack, whatever), you just substitute a longer patch cable. With ends put directly on the wire, you're always limited by the amount of cable you initially ran.
We here in Austin have been paying close attention to the upcoming 'trial'.
One must wonder what they're smoking in the board room at TW, as their proposed per-gig prices are radically higher than all other nationwide competitors, and sure to drive business away from them if they're ever really put in place.
gives a breakdown of pricing between some of the bigger providers. If you go with their lowest package (an insanely paltry 1 gig a month - why not just go back to dialup?) TW is nearly 90 times more expensive than their next major competitor (Comcast), and over 150 times higher than their lowest (ATT). Go de-regulation!
Now, the numbers above assume a hard cap of 400 gigs for the competitors, as they have theoretically "unlimited" plans. However, even going to TW's 10 gig package, which is more in line dollar-wise to the competition, you'd still be looking at roughly 25 to 45 times the price of the same competitors' offering. Even at their maximum (which works out to $175/mo, not $150, and assumes the largest package with the most overage fees), you're still four to eight times higher, but that's coupled with the fact that your monthly bill has quadrupled from what you'd have with a different provider.
According to the new pricing scheme, I'll be allowed about 2 gigs LESS for the same price than what I already consume on average, and have been faithfully paying for over 11 years now. No gaming, no file sharing, no music or movie downloads here, but what with 2 VoIP lines, remote backups, email, etc., our house still goes through about 10 - 12 gigs a month. In today's ever-evolving data-heavy world, that's not excessive.
Oh, they'd get my voice business too, if only I could have the land line also ring the cell whenever anyone calls. It's so convenient only having to give out one number. All three of the VoIP providers I've used in the past five years offered this feature ("simultaneous ring", or "find me/follow me"), not sure why they don't. I've asked.
Though I swore off ATT years ago, it'll be U-Verse for me should these idiotically sized packages ever actually get put into practice. It'll have to be, as neither Verizon or Comcast has any physical presence in Austin, and Grande is concentrating on business. So once again, go deregulation! Competition, what's that?
Speaking of business, if you use RoadRunner at your shop you pay 2.5 times more than what you would for a residential account. If these caps really come into place, you can just about forget any such thing as complimentary WIFI at your local restaurant, bar or other establishment.
And this is how we're increasing our broadband presence in America? Shame on you, TW. How unpatriotic can you be?
Perhaps this article was posted too soon. A quick trip to the web page states you can download a trial of the software; the full version is thirty-five bucks. No mention of source code anywhere.
This is an absurd chain of logic. Blurring buildings is only going to make them stand out. You might as well just blur all roads that lead to them as well. While we're at it, just go ahead and blur the entire region. Yeah, that'll work.
I second a recommendation for Flatland by Edwin Abbot, sure, being written in the mid-1800's it's dated as all get-out, but still a good read. My high school trig teacher turned me onto it when I was about the age of your students.
John Allen Paulos is a good writer of lay math books, Innumeracy was the first I'd read of his.
A recent book steeped in math is Neal Stephenson's latest, Anathem. A good read, but kinda out there, and oh yeah, it runs to over 900 pages.
From a corporation's point of view, it merely wants staff who will maximize profit, and some staff, due to their skill set, will do more to increase said profit. So, just because they're not native citizens doesn't mean the company should have to let them go first.
On the other hand, America has held out its hand for quite some time now, and it would only be civil of those whom we have helped over the years to in turn offer a hand back. So, in the spirit of patriotism, and self-preservation for our country as a whole, obviously the company should do everything in its power to help citizens before visitors.
The conflict is, corporations are not people, and have no sense of patriotism per se. That is very sad. Even sadder is that those who run corporations are people, yet many of them also seem to lack this basic empathy. I believe this will eventually be their downfall, as they look to short-term profit over long-term survival.
On a different note, since a company like MicroSoft does not for the most part produce tangible goods (no, the H1-B guy's don't have jobs pressing CD's, building mice or soon-to-be RIP'd Zunes, all of which are most likely actually constructed out of the country anyway), I'm surprised they haven't done an end-run around the whole problem and just sent the H1-B's back to work from 'home'.
MS employs people around the globe; how many beyond our soil are being let go?
MC has been my friend since it was NC. I hope Peter Norton is proud of his creation, and what it spawned.
These days on 'nix, it's been just as an invaluable tool as it was on DAS platforms.
I just wish they'd add secure FTP. My kludge is a script that mounts remote systems via fuze-ssh prior to calling MC, but of course this only works where I have access to the remote side's private key.
I concur, Process Explorer is an excellent replacement for Task Manager. It's the first thing I load up (in safe mode) on an infected machine, to see what's going on. (Though often you'll have to reboot in normal mode to actually see the bad guy in action.)
Also, check the user's temp folder sorted by date, to see recent files. Make sure you're set to see *ALL* files (even system), and that you're in detail view. Any funny-looking executable (like xgeyrz4ee.exe) is a red flag that you may be infected.
Look in HCLM/Software/MicroSoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run for any auto-run files that look out of place (such as the above red herrings, though they won't always have the same name).
Often times you can "manually" delete a virus by just going into safe mode, deleting offending registry entries and everything in temp. Just be careful about deleting the registry entries, export a backup if you're not sure.
Would seem that MicroSloth could actually do something good here. If this approach to combatting Storm is on the level, they could purchase or license the method and bundle it with 'doze, using their own EULA to cover any possible complaint of 3rd-party tampering. It would become just another level of network security added to the operating system.
This approach would have the widest effect, as it would eliminate the need for people to manually download the package and agree to potential intrusion, should the need arise by their machine becoming infected.
The good publicity sure couldn't hurt, either.
Gosh, never thought I'd actually say M$ could do good by buying out the little guy.
Hard to imagine DD-WRT not being on any FOSS project top-ten list. Although begun in 2004, v24 was released this past May, and is already up to service pack 2. It's very much under active development.
Perhaps Canonical can graciously give up one of its two slots and let Brainslayer et al share the fun.
Professional lawmakers are typically more expert in crafting rules than understanding their effects. This is natural, because, while they are comprised of a cross-section of society (Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers, etc.), those skills become secondary to their current job of telling us how we must (or may not) act.
Combined with the "market will fix itself" mentality so pervasive in both the Executive and Legislative branches, it's no wonder the letter of the law is so out of touch with the spirit.
The problem with the space elevator is drift; just picture kids playing crack the whip while skating.
A much more ambitious, but stable plan would be to build a "wheel" around the planet, and anchor it at several (at *least* four) locations to the equator.
This way the wheel would provide most of the stability. You'd still need some propulsion contrary to the direction of planetary orbit, to keep the thing from wanting to "bulge" the other way, but a simple solar sail array at each spoke would easily take care of that energy requirement.
The rim would then become one huge space station.
Our current International Space Station, in low Earth orbit, is only around 200 miles up. With elevator cars moving at 250 miles per hour, that's less than a one hour trip. Folks could actually commute to orbit or vice versa.
Of course, a trip around the rim would take a little longer - at the same 250 MPH, around 4 days.
We could also use higher speed "rails" on the rim to help ships begin their outbound journey, using the inertia of the planet to give them a big boost. If we were *really* tricky, we could employ the reverse to help them dock, similar to the way fighters land on aircraft carriers.
It's really all about energy conservation, in the chic current, and Newtonian classic, sense.
One issue that hasn't been discussed is, whenever this thing *does* get built - and it should, from an energy perspective it's just the most sensible - how are we going to protect it from other debris currently in orbit? Huge "cowcatchers" surrounding the stalk, in the form of gargantuan beach balls? Armies of 'bots who swarm out and redirect the trash? Big flexible octopus arms that swoop out and deflect the debris? Onboard staff with high-powered laser rifles?
Another one bites the dust. We just lost Ursula K. Leguin last month, Robert Asprin this past May, Arthur C. Clarke in March. No more chances to chat with them at cons anymore!
The term "sci-fi" was an alliterative way of honoring Hugo Gernsback, one of the early SF editors, who was also very much into radio and coined the term "Hi-Fi". Forry was trying to come up with a catchy title, and he did.
Most TruFen - hard-core science fiction enthusiasts - would pronounce it "Skiffy", though.
Depends on what you call a degree.
I've known since the age of six I was going to be working with 'puter.
Nearly 30 years ago, not too long after Viet Nam (when it was not as socially acceptable to do so), I enlisted in the Air Force (as a mainframe operator) straight out of high school, for four main reasons, (not necessarily in this order of importance):
Being thoroughly, completely, utterly bored with the public school system.
Keeping Dad from having to pay for college, as the divorce was expensive enough.
Learning more about my chosen profession.
Wanting to serve my country.
Four years was enough, I never planned to make the military a career, but these days I'm still in the field I knew I'd be in as a kid. Some onsite work (routers, telco installs, break-fix, etc.), some sysadmin for small businesses, some coding, some webwork & hosting. Don't like cubicles, so no desk job per se, but happy with the meld of vocation and avocation.
I've also maintained an attitude throughout the years of rather knowing how to actually do things than collect pieces of paper. So, I may not have a 100K+ desk job, or a wall full of certs, but I'm busy, and happy.
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I'd like to see this robo-hand on Iron Chef...
The solution is obvious, tie it in with your electronic toll-road pass. If a city has no (or is not near to another with) toll roads, it probably doesn't have *that* big of a downtown parking problem, either.
Purchased an E-book from Manning publications and they embedded my email address in every page.
Had I known they were going to do that, I never would have bought it.
Not that I intended to share the "book" either electronically or in print form, but my email address is private, not theirs to display.
They could have embedded "Personalized for xxx" or done something else than blare my personal email address on every page.
Will never purchase from them again.
Hear hear!
WP 5.1 All The Way!
The best typing program ever produced ran rings around Word. If only the good people of Provo, Utah had snapped to that "Windoze" thing...
Dislocated right middle finger Friday, so touch typing (in Dvorak, on a DAS Keyboard) is a bit interesting. Amazing how many words use R, N or W...
Learned cursive in the late 60's, L.A. public school, 4th grade. As the only lefty in the room, I followed teacher & classmate's lead, straight across, none of that upside-down stuff I've seen other southpaw's employ.
Result? Absolutely horrid handwriting, constant smears on palm from dragging it over the just-laid-down words. By 6th I'd resigned myself to a form of blocky printing. These days, the only time I use a pen is for signatures or birthday cards.
Side note: Grampa's cursive was fair, but he had to use his right hand as they tied the 'real' one behind his back. At least 60 years had improved our society's educational policies that much...
If you're not used to socializing with other people, that's the place to start. Sure the end-goal may to find a mate, but at first you need to be able to chat in general, whether the other party be male, or female.
Find a place that has Guinness or some comparably palatable beverage on tap, sit at the bar with your latest favorite book (a murder-mystery, something light, NOT a manual!), and be prepared to get sidetracked by those around you. Afternoon's (around happy hour) would be a better time than night. Who reads in a bar at night? The light's not good.
It'll take awhile, but before long you'll develop some gabbing skills.
Baby steps. Good luck!
More likely the salt is following the magnetic flow, rather than the other way around.
Don't recall the show, just saw something on one of the science channels wherein some scientists made a planetary model (a big rotating ball of liquid sodium around a free-floating iron ball), their theory being it is the rotational difference between the outer molten core and the solid inner core that causes our magnetic field. In the model, once the thing came up to speed, it generated a field similar to the Earth's magnetosphere.
Also, the field has reversed itself (pointing in to the planet, allowing radiation in, rather than keeping it out) many times. Just check out cores from any long-standing lava flows. We seem to be starting another flip, partially evidenced by holes in our magnetosphere ( ahref=http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/17/2352243/rel=url2html-31969http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/17/2352243/> ).
If this rotational difference is in fact where our magnetic field comes from, tinfoil had mode says exploiting geothermal energy is ultimately a no-no. Go solar!
The link is bad. Try: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-future/
I have never trusted my crimper.
It's always the punch tool (a Palladin I've had for years, but there are many good ones out there. Do *NOT* use a five dollar punch tool!) into either jacks with surface mount "biscuits" or straight into the patch panel, and pre-made patch cables. Then the Fluke gets his turn, just to make sure everything's kosher from end to end.
My local 'puter store has 5' to 10' pre-mades for just a few bucks, hard to beat.
Discounting the wire, even if you go to your local building supply mega-store, you're looking at less than $10 for a jack/biscuit/pre-made patch cord, and the knowledge when there's trouble that your cabling isn't part of the issue.
Plus, if for some reason the extension needs to be a bit longer (moving a rack, whatever), you just substitute a longer patch cable. With ends put directly on the wire, you're always limited by the amount of cable you initially ran.
We here in Austin have been paying close attention to the upcoming 'trial'.
One must wonder what they're smoking in the board room at TW, as their proposed per-gig prices are radically higher than all other nationwide competitors, and sure to drive business away from them if they're ever really put in place.
This link:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/the-price-gouging-premiums-of-time-warner-cables-data-caps.ars#
gives a breakdown of pricing between some of the bigger providers. If you go with their lowest package (an insanely paltry 1 gig a month - why not just go back to dialup?) TW is nearly 90 times more expensive than their next major competitor (Comcast), and over 150 times higher than their lowest (ATT). Go de-regulation!
Now, the numbers above assume a hard cap of 400 gigs for the competitors, as they have theoretically "unlimited" plans. However, even going to TW's 10 gig package, which is more in line dollar-wise to the competition, you'd still be looking at roughly 25 to 45 times the price of the same competitors' offering. Even at their maximum (which works out to $175/mo, not $150, and assumes the largest package with the most overage fees), you're still four to eight times higher, but that's coupled with the fact that your monthly bill has quadrupled from what you'd have with a different provider.
According to the new pricing scheme, I'll be allowed about 2 gigs LESS for the same price than what I already consume on average, and have been faithfully paying for over 11 years now. No gaming, no file sharing, no music or movie downloads here, but what with 2 VoIP lines, remote backups, email, etc., our house still goes through about 10 - 12 gigs a month. In today's ever-evolving data-heavy world, that's not excessive.
Oh, they'd get my voice business too, if only I could have the land line also ring the cell whenever anyone calls. It's so convenient only having to give out one number. All three of the VoIP providers I've used in the past five years offered this feature ("simultaneous ring", or "find me/follow me"), not sure why they don't. I've asked.
Though I swore off ATT years ago, it'll be U-Verse for me should these idiotically sized packages ever actually get put into practice. It'll have to be, as neither Verizon or Comcast has any physical presence in Austin, and Grande is concentrating on business. So once again, go deregulation! Competition, what's that?
Speaking of business, if you use RoadRunner at your shop you pay 2.5 times more than what you would for a residential account. If these caps really come into place, you can just about forget any such thing as complimentary WIFI at your local restaurant, bar or other establishment.
And this is how we're increasing our broadband presence in America? Shame on you, TW. How unpatriotic can you be?
Perhaps this article was posted too soon. A quick trip to the web page states you can download a trial of the software; the full version is thirty-five bucks. No mention of source code anywhere.
That's not open source, more like openly brazen.
Perhaps this is a pre-April Fools gag?
This is an absurd chain of logic. Blurring buildings is only going to make them stand out. You might as well just blur all roads that lead to them as well. While we're at it, just go ahead and blur the entire region. Yeah, that'll work.
So we're in the car, traveling to one place or another.
My honey's behind the wheel, and asks if I'll read from that latest trash detective novel I picked up at the used book store the other day.
To whom do I cut the royalty check?
I second a recommendation for Flatland by Edwin Abbot, sure, being written in the mid-1800's it's dated as all get-out, but still a good read. My high school trig teacher turned me onto it when I was about the age of your students.
John Allen Paulos is a good writer of lay math books, Innumeracy was the first I'd read of his.
A recent book steeped in math is Neal Stephenson's latest, Anathem. A good read, but kinda out there, and oh yeah, it runs to over 900 pages.
Good luck!
I see two sides here.
From a corporation's point of view, it merely wants staff who will maximize profit, and some staff, due to their skill set, will do more to increase said profit. So, just because they're not native citizens doesn't mean the company should have to let them go first.
On the other hand, America has held out its hand for quite some time now, and it would only be civil of those whom we have helped over the years to in turn offer a hand back. So, in the spirit of patriotism, and self-preservation for our country as a whole, obviously the company should do everything in its power to help citizens before visitors.
The conflict is, corporations are not people, and have no sense of patriotism per se. That is very sad. Even sadder is that those who run corporations are people, yet many of them also seem to lack this basic empathy. I believe this will eventually be their downfall, as they look to short-term profit over long-term survival.
On a different note, since a company like MicroSoft does not for the most part produce tangible goods (no, the H1-B guy's don't have jobs pressing CD's, building mice or soon-to-be RIP'd Zunes, all of which are most likely actually constructed out of the country anyway), I'm surprised they haven't done an end-run around the whole problem and just sent the H1-B's back to work from 'home'.
MS employs people around the globe; how many beyond our soil are being let go?
MC has been my friend since it was NC. I hope Peter Norton is proud of his creation, and what it spawned.
These days on 'nix, it's been just as an invaluable tool as it was on DAS platforms.
I just wish they'd add secure FTP. My kludge is a script that mounts remote systems via fuze-ssh prior to calling MC, but of course this only works where I have access to the remote side's private key.
Best of luck with the continued development!
I concur, Process Explorer is an excellent replacement for Task Manager. It's the first thing I load up (in safe mode) on an infected machine, to see what's going on. (Though often you'll have to reboot in normal mode to actually see the bad guy in action.)
Also, check the user's temp folder sorted by date, to see recent files. Make sure you're set to see *ALL* files (even system), and that you're in detail view. Any funny-looking executable (like xgeyrz4ee.exe) is a red flag that you may be infected.
Look in HCLM/Software/MicroSoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run for any auto-run files that look out of place (such as the above red herrings, though they won't always have the same name).
Often times you can "manually" delete a virus by just going into safe mode, deleting offending registry entries and everything in temp. Just be careful about deleting the registry entries, export a backup if you're not sure.
Would seem that MicroSloth could actually do something good here. If this approach to combatting Storm is on the level, they could purchase or license the method and bundle it with 'doze, using their own EULA to cover any possible complaint of 3rd-party tampering. It would become just another level of network security added to the operating system.
This approach would have the widest effect, as it would eliminate the need for people to manually download the package and agree to potential intrusion, should the need arise by their machine becoming infected.
The good publicity sure couldn't hurt, either.
Gosh, never thought I'd actually say M$ could do good by buying out the little guy.
The list did seem to be a bit distro-heavy.
Hard to imagine DD-WRT not being on any FOSS project top-ten list. Although begun in 2004, v24 was released this past May, and is already up to service pack 2. It's very much under active development.
Perhaps Canonical can graciously give up one of its two slots and let Brainslayer et al share the fun.
Professional lawmakers are typically more expert in crafting rules than understanding their effects. This is natural, because, while they are comprised of a cross-section of society (Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers, etc.), those skills become secondary to their current job of telling us how we must (or may not) act.
Combined with the "market will fix itself" mentality so pervasive in both the Executive and Legislative branches, it's no wonder the letter of the law is so out of touch with the spirit.
One has to wonder how many times Dr. Wurman has read Bruce Sterling's "Heavy Weather"...
The problem with the space elevator is drift; just picture kids playing crack the whip while skating.
A much more ambitious, but stable plan would be to build a "wheel" around the planet, and anchor it at several (at *least* four) locations to the equator.
This way the wheel would provide most of the stability. You'd still need some propulsion contrary to the direction of planetary orbit, to keep the thing from wanting to "bulge" the other way, but a simple solar sail array at each spoke would easily take care of that energy requirement.
The rim would then become one huge space station.
Our current International Space Station, in low Earth orbit, is only around 200 miles up. With elevator cars moving at 250 miles per hour, that's less than a one hour trip. Folks could actually commute to orbit or vice versa.
Of course, a trip around the rim would take a little longer - at the same 250 MPH, around 4 days.
We could also use higher speed "rails" on the rim to help ships begin their outbound journey, using the inertia of the planet to give them a big boost. If we were *really* tricky, we could employ the reverse to help them dock, similar to the way fighters land on aircraft carriers.
It's really all about energy conservation, in the chic current, and Newtonian classic, sense.
One issue that hasn't been discussed is, whenever this thing *does* get built - and it should, from an energy perspective it's just the most sensible - how are we going to protect it from other debris currently in orbit? Huge "cowcatchers" surrounding the stalk, in the form of gargantuan beach balls? Armies of 'bots who swarm out and redirect the trash? Big flexible octopus arms that swoop out and deflect the debris? Onboard staff with high-powered laser rifles?
Another one bites the dust. We just lost Ursula K. Leguin last month, Robert Asprin this past May, Arthur C. Clarke in March. No more chances to chat with them at cons anymore!
The term "sci-fi" was an alliterative way of honoring Hugo Gernsback, one of the early SF editors, who was also very much into radio and coined the term "Hi-Fi". Forry was trying to come up with a catchy title, and he did.
Most TruFen - hard-core science fiction enthusiasts - would pronounce it "Skiffy", though.
See 'ya on the other side, Forry, we'll miss you!
Nearly 30 years ago, not too long after Viet Nam (when it was not as socially acceptable to do so), I enlisted in the Air Force (as a mainframe operator) straight out of high school, for four main reasons, (not necessarily in this order of importance):
Four years was enough, I never planned to make the military a career, but these days I'm still in the field I knew I'd be in as a kid. Some onsite work (routers, telco installs, break-fix, etc.), some sysadmin for small businesses, some coding, some webwork & hosting. Don't like cubicles, so no desk job per se, but happy with the meld of vocation and avocation.
I've also maintained an attitude throughout the years of rather knowing how to actually do things than collect pieces of paper. So, I may not have a 100K+ desk job, or a wall full of certs, but I'm busy, and happy.
Good luck!
It may be time to take a break from 'puter.
I thought this discussion was about legacy code.