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This is my focus day on Linux. Although my morning has been filled with customer dis-service. I sent a request to Bank of America to investigate a payment June 8, the department to investigate did not even get it till June 16, here we are June 21 and I had to call them to find out what's going on.

But BofA is not alone a customer was trying to send us a wire transfer, they had the international SWIFT code BOFAUS6S, this code is unique for each bank, the customer did not have our bank name so the wire transfer was rejected. The entire wire transfer system should be thrown out and rebuilt, it is a throw back to the "dark ages". In today's world of internet and connectivity, the process of doing a wire transfer is arcaine and banks charge $12-$30 dollars to send a wire transfer, and BofA charges $10.50 to receive one. What a rip-off.

What is needed is a service like Tip-Jar for the corporate world, where I can make a payment (not credit card) to another individual or business that uses the fact that all these dumb banks are already wired together. By the way, I am not talking about electronic bill pay, because most of the time the bank sends a paper check. I want to be able to simply say "take money from here and put it there - now!"

Okay - enough of that, onto Linux

I'm working on setting up the debug environment, Brent told me:

I did learn how to get symbols from Wine -- but I forget now how to do it, and the page on deja.com with the HowTo is gone:

http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=449499787

(They claim not to delete old content -- but it looks to me like their archive is only going back about a year. Maybe some of their databases are temporarily off-line and will be back.)

So if anybody knows where that document is, or a replacement, I would appreciate it. I'll even keep a copy of it here on this site.

Well Bradley Peters filled me in on why it is no longer on Deja.com, maybe I can have 1 out of every 10 programmers from Deja, that shouldn't cause too much trouble, since that's only 10 percent...

• Re: Deja.com Usenet Archives, Bradley Peters, 6/21/00; 12:00:49 PM

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