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I’m an IT professional living in sunny St. Pete, FL. My specialty\/focus is PeopleSoft<\/a> system\/application\/database administration and development, but I’ve also worked with networking gear, managed servers (on-prem and in the cloud<\/a>), managed mobile devices, and even spent some time providing general IT support (i.e., being Nick Burns<\/a> \ud83d\ude09 ). I love technology, gadgets, and anything having to do with computers. When I’m not tinkering with a piece of equipment, tweaking configurations, or writing code<\/a>, I enjoy spending time with my family, reading<\/a>, watching TV<\/a>, or enjoying the Florida outdoors.<\/p>\n

In *nix-land, ‘chmod 644’ means “world readable.” I have no delusions of grandeur that the “world” is reading this, but it’s an accurate description of a blog’s potential audience thanks to the web. How do you pronounce<\/em> it? Personally, I say “sh-mod” but as is typical of the web, there are several schools of thought<\/a> on this. Say it however you want! [uninteresting side-note: the initials of W<\/strong>orld R<\/strong>eadable also happen to correspond with my online persona, W<\/strong>indR<\/strong>acer.]<\/p>\n

Has anything you’ve read on “chmod 644” been helpful? Enlightening? Life changing? (OK, probably not that last one) but to show your appreciation you can drop some change in my virtual tip jars through PayPal<\/a> or Venmo<\/a>. Or:<\/p>\n