Of course,  there is another theory that this has already happened.

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Dan Fitzgerald <[email protected]>wrote:

>  ...but immediately thereafter, the universe ends, and may or may not be
> replaced with something even more inexplicably bizarre.
>
> ------------------------------
> Subject: RE: Lurning sum bacic shtuff
> Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 14:22:11 -0700
>
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
>  Zarquon returns twice daily (three times on Saturday) at the restaurant
> at the end of the universe as any true Douglas Adams fan knows!
>
>
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf
> Of *Dan Fitzgerald
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 15, 2010 1:05 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* RE: Lurning sum bacic shtuff
>
>
>
> Oh, I've branched out, as well. I can type zeroes into the prompts now,
> too. Ayup. Ones _and_ zeroes, or I can even flip it around & do zeroes and
> ones.
>
> You know that there are 10 kinds of people? Those who understand binary,
> and those who don't.
>
> Waiting for Zarquon to return, btw, isn't a great idea. I would think
> someone from "temporal-wave" would know that... ;)
>
> I have about 25 years in multivalue. A few years ago, a company hired me to
> do performance tuning in UniVerse on AIX (They had hundreds of clients).
> Then there was 200% management turnover in a couple of years, and since I
> was in the AIX support group (they didn't know where else to stick me), the
> expectation became that I was an AIX admin. It didn't go all that well, but
> I learned. Now I'm a Senior AIX admin at a non-MV site, occasionally
> moonlighting in the MV world, with 100.0% uptime over 2 years.
>
> Moral: learn whatever's in front of you. Make More Money. Have the gender
> of your preference pursuing you. Afford Oregon Pinot Noir.
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> Subject: Lurning sum bacic shtuff
> Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 12:47:02 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> I am generally willing to help anyone with anything, but I cannot
> understand why banks would spend so much money on banking software then
> entrust its installation and operation to people that cannot do much beyond
> type ls at a command prompt.
>
>
>
> If your job is to look after T24 and/or a jBASE installation, and if your
> company will not pay for some training for you, it seriously behooves you to
> find some online training guides (which are always free), maybe buy a book
> or two (and read them) and just generally get up to speed on UNIX. When you
> can download a free version of any number of Linux installations that will
> run as virtual machines on your Windoze system, there is absolutely no
> excuse for anyone in the world not to train their selves in the basics of
> Linux, much of which (scripts, environments, compiling programs, etc) will
> translate across to the operating system at work such as AIX, or (Zarquon
> help you), HPUX if your company is silly enough to go for that.
>
>
>
> I wanted to make a career in computing because it constantly gives you
> puzzles, challenges, things to learn, problems to be solved. I really like
> solving problem, fixing things, getting things to work. If you do not, then
> I cannot for the life of me think why you would enter into computing other
> than you think that it is your best chance to make money. However, you won’t
> make very much at all if your idea of being in computing is cutting and
> pasting an error message and sending it to this group without 10 seconds of
> attempting to fix things; so get real and get trained.
>
>
>
> I am really good at my job, not because I am a super genius (though anyone
> who says I am not is fired ;-), but because I try to learn everything there
> is to know about the things I am dealing with. Everyone can learn more or
> less than others, but not trying to learn anything at all and just expecting
> other people to sort things out will get you absolutely nowhere unless
> everyone else in your company is exactly the same.
>
>
>
> Here are some resources:
>
>
>
> Free virtual machine software:
>
> http://www.virtualbox.org/
>
>
>
> Free pre-configured images that will run on Virtual box (already installed
> ready to go in 10 minutes):
>
> http://virtualboxes.org/images/
>
>
>
> Free Linux training:
>
> http://www.linux.org/lessons/
>
>
> http://education-portal.com/articles/10_Sites_Offering_Free_Linux_Courses_Online.html
>
>
>
> Free AIX training:
>
> http://www.certification-crazy.net/aix.htm
>
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/training/
>
>
>
> Where to go when you need parsers and compilers for DSLs (which you all
> need but do not realize ;-):
>
> www.temporal-wave.com
>
>
>
> Next, read all the jBASE manuals. When you have done all that, you will be
> competent to deal with T24 or any other large application in this space.
>
>
>
> I don’t mean to beat up on anyone, but change your attitude and change your
> prospects! Just think how valuable you will be to your company if you can
> solve just about anything without coming here. Then come here when something
> really is tricky.
>
>
>
> Jim
>
>
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