I'm also an "old expensive" computer professional. It recently took me a total of 18 hours from the time I put my resume online to my first job offer, and 4 days to have 6 offers and to have accepted a new position.

The longest it's ever taken me to find a new position once I've started looking in earnest is 2 weeks. The shortest is 36 hours. Recruiters see my resume and my phone gets 100's of calls a day.

There is definitely a shortage of experienced talent in the marketplace here (Washington, DC).

It sounds like RealBasic might be a fit for what you're looking for. Have you tried them? http://www.realbasic.com/

Um, no. Apple doesn't charge anything for an iOS update. Not $5. Not $1. Not $0.001. Nada. I don't know who told you that you have to pay for an iOS upgrade, but as long as you have a supported model of iPhone, it's free.

You work at NatGeo too I guess.

Sorry, but there was a stretch of several months this year where there were no security updates released for CentOS 5.x while they worked on 5.6 and 6.0.

https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=29685&forum=53

My fiancee speaks 6 languages fluently, like a native, and switches between them with an ease that impresses the shit out of me. They are Korean (she is Korean), Tagalog, Mandarin Chinese, English, Japanese and French. The first time she came to America, Immigration didn't want to let her in because her English was so good they didn't believe that she had never been here before.

So, yeah, there are lots of people that speak multiple languages. Just not, unfortunately, in America.

A quick "cont" in the EEPROM would zip that 16-way server back to life faster than anyone noticed it was frozen.

Cutting the strings.

I understand your evil plot now! By stuffing a 16 bit value into an 8 bit location, you're actually inserting the upper 8 bits into the next memory location. Everyone knows that the value 00000001 when put into address 8676 is the "brick my phone" value. By sneakily tricking the user into memory location 8675, you've bypassed the internal security.

My hat is off to you sir!

Speaking as someone who has done root DNS modifications, Sweden *doesn't do* the modifications. They submit a request, which is verified by two separate agencies, then forwarded on to VeriSign who makes the TLD change. Once the change is made, it is (supposedly) verified by at least 1 other person, and several scripts before being pushed live.

Fixed that for you.