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To: BP Ritchie who wrote (19106)	12/14/1997 7:14:00 PM
From: Don Earl	Respond to of 42771

Hi BP and All, (off topic humor) An e-mail buddy of mine sent me these and I figured some of the folks here might get a kick out of them. Hopefully it will still be in verse form when I hit the submit button. "NEW LYRICS TO BEATLES SONGS" ----------------------------- YESTERDAY Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, There's not half the files there used to be, And there's a milestone hanging over me The system crashed so suddenly. I pushed something wrong What it was I could not say. Now all my data's gone and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay. Yesterday, The need for back-ups seemed so far away. I knew my data was all here to stay, Now I believe in yesterday. ============================================ Songs to program by... Eleanor Rigby ------------- Eleanor Rigby Sits at the keyboard And waits for a line on the screen Lives in a dream Waits for a signal Finding some code That will make the machine do some more. What is it for? All the lonely users, where do they all come from? All the lonely users, why does it take so long? Guru MacKenzie Typing the lines of a program that no one will run; Isn't it fun? Look at him working, Munching some chips as he waits for the code to compile; It takes a while... All the lonely users, where do they all come from? All the lonely users, why does it take so long? Eleanor Rigby Crashes the system and loses 6 hours of work; Feels like a jerk. Guru MacKenzie Wiping the crumbs off the keys as he types in the code; Nothing will load. All the lonely users, where do they all come from? All the lonely users, why does it take so long? =================================== Unix Man (Nowhere Man) -------- He's a real UNIX Man Sitting in his UNIX LAN Making all his UNIX plans For nobody. Knows the blocksize from du(1) Cares not where /dev/null goes to Isn't he a bit like you And me? UNIX Man, please listen(2) My lpd(8) is missin' UNIX Man The wo-o-o-orld is at(1) your command. He's as wise as he can be Uses lex and yacc and C UNIX Man, can you help me At all? UNIX Man, don't worry Test with time(1), don't hurry UNIX Man The new kernel boots, just like you had planned. He's a real UNIX Man Sitting in his UNIX LAN Making all his UNIX plans For nobody ... Making all his UNIX plans For nobody. ================================== Write in C ("Let it Be") ------------------------ When I find my code in tons of trouble, Friends and colleagues come to me, Speaking words of wisdom: "Write in C." As the deadline fast approaches, And bugs are all that I can see, Somewhere, someone whispers: "Write in C." Write in C, Write in C, Write in C, oh, Write in C. LOGO's dead and buried, Write in C. I used to write a lot of FORTRAN, For science it worked flawlessly. Try using it for graphics! Write in C. If you've just spent nearly 30 hours, Debugging some assembly, Soon you will be glad to Write in C. Write in C, Write in C, Write in C, yeah, Write in C. BASIC's not the answer. Write in C. Write in C, Write in C Write in C, oh, Write in C. Pascal won't quite cut it. Write in C. ========================= Something --------- Something in the way it fails, Defies the algorithm's logic! Something in the way it coredumps... I don't want to leave it now I'll fix this problem somehow Somewhere in the memory I know, A pointer's got to be corrupted. Stepping in the debugger will show me... I don't want to leave it now I'm too close to leave it now You're asking me can this code go? I don't know, I don't know... What sequence causes it to blow? I don't know, I don't know... Something in the initializing code? And all I have to do is think of it! Something in the listing will show me... I don't want to leave it now I'll fix this tonight I vow

To: BP Ritchie who wrote (19106)	12/14/1997 10:53:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Respond to of 42771

Korean crisis is far from over and there is more not less to come This question in Korean is default. In fact I have read several articles in which a debt moratorium is considered as the only way out for the country. Look at Korea as basically insolvent at this point. It cannot pay its foriegn loans and cannot get foreign credit even for routine import/export transactions. Japan holds a great deal of Korean short term debt. Japanese banks will be asked to roll it over. But Japanese banks have their own bad debt problems and do not look willing to loan good money to bad debtors. Finally you have the beggar thy neighbor devaluations, the trade war that will heat between Asian countries for western markets, and the economic decline in Japan. Japan is slipping down into the pit. If it falls in (Watch the Nikkei slip below 15000 and the yen/dollar) then one of our largest trade partners isn't going to be buying anything. The IMF money isn't going to be enough. The question is will the western countries come up with another mechanism or will Korea be allowed to default.

To: BP Ritchie who wrote (19106)	12/15/1997 12:52:00 PM
From: dwight vickers	Respond to of 42771

BP, Agree with everything Paul has to say about the Asian problem, but want to make a couple of other comments. The "officials", if they ever have a clue, are the last people to provide any serious analysis of crisis situations. Every collapse in history has happened amid a chorus of "things will be fine". The money being used in Korea and SE Asia is assets that would be better spent elsewhere by the world economic community. The fact that it will not be better spent is also contractionary for the world economy. There is also the China danger. Their economy is slowing. While still growing they are unlikely to settle for slow growth when their goal is to take their place among the upper echelons of economic powers. That means if they find themselves becoming uncompetitive tradewise, they will also devalue. Where does that end? We are fast becoming uncompetitve ourselves with a new breakout against the Yen this AM. There are a whole Imelda's closet full of shoes yet to be dropped, in my estimation. Dwight