Not to mention, Spam-zombies are end-user systems (virtually always PCs running some version of Windows) ...

Well, Andrew - are we on schedule for !-Doze < 12/31/05?
(And WTF will your mom n'pop cos do -?- when you toss in the trowel and become Culinary Editor for the IEEE.)

Wonder how many of those "80%" have those CDs and regularly burn CD copies of the daily new patches for their Late-model Doze - and what % of those-few, could even follow the drill from wiped disk --> onwards. 5% ? 1% ?

IT mirrors the rest of the country, digitally imploding, with bafflegab as the catalyst >>> _\ufffd
Soon Terry P. will be hired/Shanghaied to construct (with help from the Cheese Eaters of Quirm + The Young Mens Pagan Association) a network of Clacks Towers, (run by imported workers on Puce Cards, natch).

This is almost as much fun to watch as.. a Tee Vee preacher!
Maybe even hilariouser is: the fact that No One Can remember all this crap; few have the time/inclination/smarts -- even to have written down all the tweaks and BS needed to have once gotten their copy of Orifice limping along, churning out more faxes from The Paperless Orifice.
Hilariousest of all: Cheaper to Buy a new Dell than to vacuum clean the sucker!

Guffaw

YPB :(




Time to corner the market on still-living WW-II semaphore Pros. These can train the imports - as Consultants. Of Course. 50-percenters.