If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours. Stolen shamelessly from WebMonkey Across the surfaces of a typical computer's printed- circuit boards stand columns of small rectangular boxes, with metal legs descending from their sides. They might be some odd strain of caterpillar bred for mathematical ability. In fact, each of these boxes holds inside it another box, as it were - the intricate integrated circuitry known as a chip.
Some boards are colorful and most finished ones please the eye.
A computer's boards seem to show order triumphing in complexity. They look as if they make sense, but not in the way the moving parts of an engine make sense. The form on the surface of a board does not imply its function. Reverse engineering is the name for that art. I had forgotten over the last week or two that as a Web boy, I'm supposed to have a goatee.