The midday brown-outs during summer months here in VA contradict your conclusion.

I've done this hunt at least three times and came up short every time. Someone please find something I've missed.

Thank you. Gulfport was ground zero. It was not pretty, even a year later. So weird standing on a beach and seeing no structures for miles in either direction when you know the foundations are there....just no buildings.

You know the situation better than anyone else. Are there competent people you trust to get you the information you need? If not, make system access part of the condition of accepting the position. One the nice (or painful) aspects of a job like "Enterprise Architect" is you should have the latitude to define the job to a large extent. Just remember that every hour you spend at a command prompt is time you can't spend doing the main aspects of your job. There's also the possibility of you being blamed for whatever goes wrong next, whether you were involved or not. There's an opportunity cost to system access.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu...

silly canine

I'm going to weep when they get this power. Because it's Goldman Sachs and you know they will.

How long do you expect this to last before it's needed? DVDs and USB drives are common, but I see DVDs heading out at this point. Paper has the advantage that in 40 years it'll still be readable. Of course if your passwords change you'll have to update this information anyway. Assuming you update passwords occasionally because of a) good practice or b) some company gets hacked, I'd send it electronically and encrypted, so the person needs to actually enter a password to get to the data. Unless the recipient gets a keylogger installed, you should be safe. A text file encrypted with pgp is good for the knowledgeable recipient. For someone less savvy, I'd send them an encrypted tiddlywiki. Obviously give them the password over the phone, in person, or via snail mail.

/me points to kubuntu and xubuntu. I have a choice, even within the "*ubuntu" family. Users of Windows 8 do not.

It's actually worse. It's the same 75 lines of code over and over and over and over and over and over .... That being said, both my kids did it :)

Alt-F2 -> konsole :D

...they treat us all like morons. Their business practices have been predatory in the past and unecessarily nasty - and that comes in a close number two reason. But I can't stand using their products because they are always "helping". And now they're gonna screw with SEARCH RESULTS? Their OS is bad...Office is worse. THIS is insulting.

I voted "within 20 years" however having 2 kids in the public school system, it seems that 50% of what they do would qualify as day care rather than education....so I'm changing my vote to "Never" since in order to survive in 20 years, both parents will have to be working and there'll be no $$$ for separate child care.

http://unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html

It was nice of you to use your genius to save them all that time! And from thousands of miles away, too.