How about the bishop's manual for the Mormon church? Nothing secretly evil or sacred, just procedures on how to handle things sensitive, like someone confiding in a bishop that they are being abused. Yet it is posted on there, for the sole purpose of "OOOOO, look what we got!"

I can testify of the flammability of steel wool. Don't listen when you are told to use steel wool to clean the excess paint off a power outlet. :)

Sometimes you have to do that actually. I have done the same thing for a quite cryptic (and number heavy) BSoD.

Personally I have had a number of Abit motherboards, and they have all failed me rather spectacularly. First the USB ports go, one by one. Then the networking, then the sound...

Actually, the analogy I was getting at is that most people already have sunglasses. They already have hardware firewalls. Most of them do not know it, but hey, that is a different matter

Its quite laughable actually. Any moron with a hardware firewall immediately kills this idea. My $40 Linksys router will block such things by default.

Bah, proxies are for jocks, SSH is the geek way.

My own father actually ended up one class short of his BS in computer engineering, yet with many years working in the field he has been able to get a good job.

A degree HELPS though, and I will be getting one myself.

As a matter of fact I do agree that this would be a good Friday story. I never read the mailbag, I do read these threads even though I have no experience with the subject (blackberries, vim, emacs, linux, well, I will be learning linux later) they are still interesting threads to read.