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Thanks Sty

You have the most subtle sense of humor I've ever encountered. Todays post really gave me a good laugh.

Jerry

Yeah... I was going to suggest he drive them into the ground, but realized he'd never find the throttle or steering wheel.

LLoyd

That is _really_ great!

Oh, that is quite complicated. TVR (technical Video Rental) has a DVD called "What to do with stakes". But be aware, that there is also a special stryped-edition consisting of 42 DVDs that explain every little step. I guess this edition will help you a bit.

Nick

Heh.. didnt' expect that, made me laugh.

John

The dumbass troll probably bought stakes with the points on the wrong ends anyway.

Yeah that's basically it. You'd better hurry though, many geologists are expecting the Earth's magnetic poles to switch very soon, and that will render your old stakes useless. If you don't think you'll be able to use the stakes you have within a week or so, you should take them back to where you got them and ask to exchange them for new "pole switched" ones. If the sales person doesn't know what you're talking about, get your money back and find a knowledgeable dealer.

... and will ask if someone can make him a sledge hammer with a conical hole on one side.

Nick

"Artemia Salina" wrote: (clip) geologists are expecting the Earth's magnetic poles to switch very soon, and that will render your old stakes useless.(clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I think you are being unduly alarmed. In the first place, your warning applies only to iron or steel stakes--not wood. Secondly, the effect may be minor--remember the huge concern that was generated over the Y2K "catastrophe?" Turned out to be a big nothing.

Besides, Stryped would need to know the difference between North and South. He's already disclosed that he doesn't understand the dif. 'tween up and down...

LLoyd

Yeah, well, what if they're _ironwood_? Did you think about that, Leo?

It could have been bad. IT folks like myself worked our asses off to make sure things were covered.

Okay, but what about stakes that are made out of Iron Oak and/or are new old stock from before 2000? He made need to get stakes that have certs and are Y2K-ready. Just to be safe.

Yeah, but Dave, it was mostly our ASSES we were covering! It was also us early IT folks who figured using a four-digit year date was a waste of Db space...

LLoyd

Oh, speaking of which, thanks for making the web page on your venturi vacuum pump project. Nice job (on both).

To a large extent, true. For me, it was medical devices. To other IT people, it was power production; to others, it was communications gear. By protecting our individual asses, our collective asses were covered.

I am personally responsible for a few implementations that blew up if they were still in use at that time, yes. Were you ever taught to use "9999" as an EOF marker? I know of at least two clients whose stuff would have puked on 9, September, 1999 if they were still using the programs I wrote for them in the early 80s. I thought the "9999" thing was widely known/used, but I only get blank looks from others when I ask them about it.

"High-Values" usually worked better unless you were accustomed to using an all-nines final record as an end-of-data indication. [A '60s "thing".]

Most of the payroll programs I worked with were inherently Y2K-compliant 'cause we had a number of employees (in the '60s and early '70s) that had dates of birth prior to 1900.

Nah... all our older stuff was assembly language, so we used 0FFFFh as the end-of-file in binary files, and a plain-ol' EOF in text files.

LLoyd

you're welcome!

Nick

Nice site. I've been reading it to try to figure out the German names of tools. Gewindebohrer = tap, nicht wahr?

Jim W

Or like our newly graduated civil engineer, when asked by the party chief to order more stakes, got kiln dried, clear pine 1 x 3 with one end square, the other cut at 45 deg., and the hell of it was, he bought 500 of them. Guess who got banished to the carpenter's shop for a couple days. Gerry :-)} London, Canada