isn't this just the sort of thing that just might have been going on in well known car manufacturers that led to bad emissions data being published?

30 years ago I rewrote the monthly payroll for a client who was waiting for some real work to come in and wanted to keep hold of me (I was...

I would lurrv to work on that system, for exactly that reason.

Couldn't agree more, but you have to accept that to make this work you need to invest time at the beginning and it isn't always available - or at least...

I never keep data on my laptop for all your reasons, Steve.

besides, if you keep everything on the network, it's regularly backed up - with no effort on my part.

if...

if you don't bill for it, they won't respect it, and soon, neither will you....

This is GREATadvice. I would go further and say my best solutions to difficult technical problems often come when I'm asleep! wake up in the morning and the...