atomic memory operations. Any damn fool could produce a better data format than XML. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream melts and milk curdles. It will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will drink all your credit cards, reprogram your ATM access code, screw up the item tempting them to believe in God..." I HAVE A FILE IN /TMP/ THAT CAN'T BE DELETED, AND HAS NO SIZE. IT JUST STARES AT ME AND WHISPERS THAT WE'RE ALL ALREADY DEAD AND LIVING IN A SIMULATION WRITTEN IN COBOL! Gates likes to read data from six gyros and