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My hack was to purchase a 2017 vehicle with a 5 speed manual transmission. I reckon 95% of would be thieves can’t easily drive it away!

Because regardless how you classify them, they are humans who deserve our empathy and compassion.

Sadly, this seems to be the case. Which means we the people, have lost control of our government.

Alfred Wegener as the initial author on the theory of plate tectonics comes to mind. He was a trained meteorologist who observed the similarities between geological formations between the South American east coast and African west coast. He was lucky, in that his father in-law was a prominent geologist and helped him defend this thesis.

Pretty good if they did it in a day. Encountered the same issue and it took me at least three days to resolve. The issue presented itself as a database table not updating.

OP here. These are some really great ideas here and I thank you.

Now that would be a fun hack, no? I bet with the collective knowledge from this thread I might be able to pull it off.

I’m still working for the man, though.

I recall a time that I wrote a program that called for a tape mount and a file to be read where this file spanned 2 volumes. There was a 3270 terminal next to the tape reader. After the job is submitted, I was amazed at the velocity of the read.

The all time favorite raised floor data center story: I worked for a commercial software vendor back in the day where sufficient physical security for the data center was a lock on the building door, but no locks to the raised tile floor area.

One day I walked through the doors of the data center and everything was covered in a fine ash-like powder. Another employee brought their young child with him to the data center. This child pressed the red button labeled “Haylon Dump”.

I was told by the operators on watch that everyone was lucky to find their way out safely.

New locks were installed the next and badge swipes were required for entry.

Amazingly, all the hardware mostly survived.

Gary deWard Brown is the author and hence the name. If I recall, he also describes utilities like IEBGENER, IEBCOPY and so on.

One copy of the book on Amazon was over $100.

Another thank you! I have choices

Thank you!

Great tip, thank you. Easy is relative. Lucky for me, I have kids who can get me going with a twitter account.

This is very helpful. I’m guessing you have a copy of the Brown/Blue => Blue/Brown book.

I’m guessing you also have a book recommendation on the history of the 360 architecture. Excluding Watson’s bio and “Mythical Man Month”, what book should I read next?