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We've a guy who is retiring after 30+ years of service.
He's really old school - to the point where when he looks for files on his computer he still runs off to the DOS prompt. He is also very paranoid about backups and because of his mania we've files dating all the way back to the mid-90's. We don't have software that can read those files, but we do have the files.
So now he's cleaning out his desk and his filing cabinets and he brought by a 6 inch stack of paper that is a balancing report from 1995. The interesting thing about this stack of paper is that it represents the balance on a new system after is was converted - a system that we just moved back out to the vendor.
The report has been thrown away which is why I contacted the vendor today and asked them in our next meeting to claim that they've found a small bug in the software and that it would be helpful if they could get a look at a balance report from September of 1995 - the exact same report this fellow has held onto for 18yrs and now has just thrown away.
I wanna see what our retiree has to say to that. 
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The vendor has contacted me and told me that they're all in... 
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Leave the old guy to retire with peace
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He's the kind of guy that would appreciate this sort of thing.
No worries.
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MehGerbil wrote: to the point where when he looks for files on his computer he still runs off to the DOS prompt
Are you saying there is a better way to find files? 
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Yeah, that was my reaction.
Though I use cygwin so I have access to find, awk, grep, and perl.
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Watched a documentary on Stan Lee last night, "With great power." He's 90 years old and was in his late 80s when this was made. And the guy is still a live wire.
Someone asked him about retirement and he said most people retire and say, "Now I can do all the things I enjoy." Stan followed with, "But these are the things I enjoy! Don't punish me by making me retire."
The guy is 90 years old and still a force of nature. Even if I hadn't grown up reading Fantastic Four, Spiderman, et al, he would be one of my heroes for this reason alone.
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LOVE IT!
Can't wait to hear of the  ,  ,  ,  , and, hopefully, the responses from the Retiree!
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Ohhhh you bastard! 
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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that's hilarious but evil. You better do something really nice for him lest the negative karma doesn't bite you....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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You're mean! But that's funny, too!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I just received a Code Project Offers e-mail with the subject line "Kick start your career with new dev skills".
I read it as "Kick your career in the balls".
Where's my resume... 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Kick your career in the balls
Been there, done that.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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When I read the subject, I thought that CodeProject was now offering e-mail addresses, an in <yourname>@CodeProject.com.
Thoughts anyone?
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This sounds like a good idea.
Added bonus that CodeProject is Canadian, and assuming that their servers are physically located in Canada, would be less easily compromised by the data snoopers from the NSA and FBI.
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In theory, the FBI is limited to the borders of the U.S. The NSA charter is to monitor global signals intelligence, so the Canadian border means precisely dick.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My ISP intercepts all online searches or just the ones that google don't find and pops up their own search page. Rather annoying.
So if you tell me the traffic going thru my ISP is not monitored in some way or form.......
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For us Americans, it would make the email MORE likely to be snooped.
In theory, domestic internet traffic cannot be datamined without a warrant. To get around this, the various spying agencies have been rerouting domestic internet traffic to various foreign locations, datamining it there, then routing it on to its destination. Traffic that is actually international does not need to go through this ruse, as the US courts have held that data which crosses a border is not protected, even if that traffic is intercepted within US boundaries.
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Bags bob@codeproject.com ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif)
speramus in juniperus
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Kick your career in the balls
That must have hurt
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Whatever you're drinking, it's time to share.
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Sorry, but due to federal hazardous material handling guidelines, my coffee can't be transported across state lines without prior EPA approval.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's gotta be one badass coffee cup.
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Hampstead shoppers slam Tesco after organic porridge oats disappear from store
What's worse is that they have to live in Hampstead!
speramus in juniperus
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This headline[^] caught my eye in the More News section. I have no clue what it is about, but I couldn't help but click on it...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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