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Arrogant bastards, sure, but Godless seems a might strong.

Ha ha ha. The first part of the descriptor is more characteristic of PC users who can't conceive of any other operating system. For instance, today in lab meeting, when I announced that I had ordered the PC, called by some in the lab a "real" computer, someone asked, "Oh, we're getting a Mac, too? But nobody in the lab (10 people) uses Mac. Well...except for aruanan," she said. "And Bill (the principal investigator who's paying for it all)," I said. "And Don, and Betty, and Dalida. Looks as though we have some selective perception going on here." "But why do we need a Mac?" she asked. I said that we had to have something that would run Photoshop 7 the way it was supposed to be run (for instance, the entry level model 800MHz G4 is over 25% faster at the standard battery of Photoshop tasks than the 2.0 GHz Pentium 4.) The one most typical thing I've seen in PC users is the complete certainty that the PC is the "real" computer combined with the almost total inability to do anything either on a PC or a Mac than to use a program.

I've actually written a "daemon". Most Unix machines have them. Will the horrors never cease? :-) Of course I'm replying on a Mac running OS X.

Trivial information alert. For those curious about "chmod 666", the Unix command "chmod" stands for "change mode" which changes the way a file can be read. Each file has 4 octal (base 8) number associated with it. Each octal number represents 3 binary bits such that 000 is 0, 001 is 1, 010 is 2, 011 is 3, 100 is 4, 101 is 5, 110 is 6, and 111 is 7. The first of the three bits is for "read", the second bit is for "write", and the third bit is for "execute" meaning that it is a program that can be run. If the bit is on or "1", then you can do the thing that it represents. There are 3 octal numbers representing the rights that the owner of the file has, the rights that the files group has, and the rights that everyone else has. A 4th octal number can specify some other information about the file that is much more complicated but most people just deal with the 3 octal numbers. Got it? So if you want to set a file so that the owner, the group, and others can read or write the file, you use the octal number for 110 which is 6 three times. You see the number isn't six hundred and sixty six but (6 * 64) + (6 * 8) + 6 = 438, hardly a demonic number.