Jeb had given him the very same siren song. "This time, we’ll really straighten it all out." No. No one could ever promise that about computers, because that was never the truth. It didn’t matter how good you were, how smart you were. Nobody ever "fixed" computers. You just threw the old computer out and got another one. Any genuine reform was impossible. The only thing you could do was layer some fresh mud on top of the cracks.