At 02:02 PM 12/28/2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote: >"William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at HiWAAY.net> wrote: > > Preach it *LOUD*, brother :-) !!!! > >I call this the "retention curve." > >People complain that UNIX has a poor "learning curve." I >always complain that Microsoft products have a poor >"retention curve" of 5-10 years maximum. And I have to go back and retrieve 10+ year old learning. I still get a chuckle remembering when we were 'learning' PING (gee, I already had Interop's Advanced TCP/IP class and Comer's vol II) and I figured the IP address of our terminal server and I gave it the PING of Death and we got a 15 minute class break while they tried to determine why the terminals all locked up. Yes PING of Death was around LONG before M$ got slamed with it. But how to use VI? I have to pull out my book on that! Thank you GEDIT.