Except any "large corporate environment" should have commoditised the desktop PC long ago, with a managed desktop image, roaming profiles, etc. making rebuild (or even re-image) the only software-based repair that ever needs doing to a desktop; hardware repairs would be completed under warranty by third party engineers.

I just can't believe that anyone wasted 2 fucking years of their life trying to "disprove" it.

Rebuild one of the computers they give you. Do whatever you want to secure it. Give it back to them for the kids to use. If your build is any good, when they see how it runs, they will ask you to sort out their other PC, and the kids won't interrupt you.

> b) It has never been known to be transmitted from swine to humans.
Actually, shortly after this article was printed, there was a case in Soviet Russia where...

Funny how TPB is still up, eh?

It's like teaching a programming class in D--yeah, the language is nice, but it's not what people use.

This is a lousy example that works against you. As many programmers have, I learned one programming language (Java) at Uni and have *never* used it since. I have since, however, worked in asp, c, c++, c#, asp.net, perl, sh, vb, vbscript, ruby, python... and probably more that I can't remember; none of these ever presented any problems to me, nor should they to any real programmer, regardless of previous experience.

The point, as many other people have been saying, is that if the principles are taught well, rather than procedure, then the platform becomes absolutely irrelevant.

What's an Off button?

I had to write right handed for a week.
How do you think I feel? I've been made to do it for 25 years!