I'm talking about the computer I use at work to access the Unix and Linux systems I develop on. I work for a major financial organisation which is not going to roll out Linux on the desktop any time soon so for the time being, I am forced to use Windows on the desktop.

Thanks for the tip of not buying computers running XP for home use but I have been working in Unix since 1985 and still have an '82 vintage IBM PC that can boot Minix and do useful work.

Thanks, Bob.

Thats one of lifes great problems solved. Any chance they can work on Windows stability next?

Bob.

Working life?

I assumed it included those Basic programs I used to type in from 80's magazines. You know it took quite a few attempts to get them to work. That must have pushed the number up quite a lot. :-)

Bob.

Why are you reminding me of my username? I may have been here a long time but I hadn't forgot it.

Bob.

Hannibal Lecter?

I learned the Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate Halloween. I guess they don't like strangers going up to their door and annoying them.

        - Bruce Clark

If they made it the president rather then 90% of the people, Canada and Mexico would have been safe in the Bush years. :-)

Bob.

A lot of nice, thoughtful, intelligent people try this technique and it does work. The only problem is in the long run, it causes a world shortage of nice, thoughtful intelligent people.

Bob.

You mean WTFy.

Bob.

I guess the cables have to come ashore somewhere and you can't plan ahead for where ships will be when gales hit.

Come to think of it, I wonder how many cables go straight across the middle of the atlantic. Is it still possible to pick up the internet and slip the earth out?

Bob.

What I like is that when it starts to fail, it only fails a little bit. Just enough to make them shake about a bit, not enough to through then at a side wall with enough force to liquify them.

Bob.

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Bob.