BlackIce, were you prior military? Well, I can't get this or don't know how to get this quote thing to work and I'm afraid if I do what I was about to do I'll resubmit this whole forum. But yeah, it sure is a shock going back to school after all these years. It's like every where I go I keep thinking, wow, civilian life, everyone seems so laid back, on their own program, doing whatever they want to do, dressing how they want to dress, no rules and regulations, dragging their feet when they're walking, walking slouched over and mumbling when they talk. LOL, and when I see this, I mean I heard it before, but it is like everytime I see this, that is when I realize how really brainwashed I have become. I don't know, probably just the military's thing, or at least the Corps thing on anti-individuality. But it's cool and still shocks me when I see this cause I am still in a state of disbelief to the ammount of freedom I have and am like, Wow, you mean I can just go and do that? I don't have to request permission and I won't get my ass handed to me? If I don't want to do something I can just tell them no? lol But my first opinion of college was, and still is cause I been going there talking to career councilor and advisors and took the placement test, it looks just like Fin high school cause you got your homies hangin out with the homies, the freaks hangin with the freaks, and your pretty girls hangin with the pretty girls, and I was just like, jesus, I guess the sh dont change.

But anyway, yeah, that is what I am going to have to do, start back with refresher courses for math. I took the practice placement exam for the school I'm going to that I got offline and was like, damn, I lost more than I thought I would have since I last been in HS, cause the only algebra or formulas I have done since leaving HS was for adjusting impacts of artillery rounds and hight-of-burst. But I did a lot better than I thought I was going to do when I took the actual test. So, I am having to start off in elementary algebra, but hey, at least I aint starting off with one plus one's and two times two's, lol.

So basically math in computers is like learning a foriegn language, which is one thing that comes fairly easy for me. At one point I knew four languages real well, including how to read, write and speak in Korean, and started learning to read Arabic over in Iraq thanks to a translator, so, I think I will be able to pick up programming languages, too. I guess in a way it is the same concept in the sense that it has set patterns and rules, and if those rules are borken it would cause the computer to mess up, because the computer wouldn't be able to understand what it's being told to do, does that sound about right?

But how would you actually apply straight math and algebraic equations to fix a problem? And what kinds of problems could it fix, for example. Like if there was something wrong with a computer, how would you determine it needed an algebraic equation to fix it, and are there set equations for each problem or area or groups of problems, or do you start with a general idea of what that equation might or should be, then start tweaking numbers and stuff then trying to apply and reapply the solution you came up with until it works. Or do they have software that will tell you what the equation should be, and you try it, and if it doesn't work go back and mess with it till it does work? And where in the computer would you acutally go to and type in this equation or formula to make it work right again? Does it actually look like an algebraic equation like ab(c3 X xy) +2= 14, and do you enter it in as such, or does it look something like those number and characters you get when you open a corrupted file or something? Where in a windows OS would I go to do this. I mean, I'm not gonna go entering stuff or messing with crap I don't know, I've crashed a couple computers before at that internet cafe I had, lol, and had to have our techs come bail me out, so I've learned that lesson. I was just wondering where it is and what it looked like on a windows OS.

I did send those emails out to the CIA and NSA, tried looking for anything, any address I could contact the FBI for an inquiry, ran around their website and links to local agencies, but found no address specifically for the FBI whatsoever. Finally found a link to the Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory, which I guess is a part of or works for the FBI, found an email for the RCFL, so I sent them an email add. So, now I guess I gotta wait for them to respond which I can only guess how long that will take. When you want something or need something from the gov., they'll take their sweet ass time, but if they want something or need something from you, man do they run.