Maybe this didn't happen by accident?

all of those hardware platforms are compiled from a single source tree.
there is a lot of hardware abstraction to get all platform specifics under one hood.
which is a big difference from many (*cough* well) other open source systems,
which come with source tree A for platform X, source tree B for platform Y, patchiest C for ...
you get it. That's not the case for NetBSD.

The benefit of this is, if there's a new feature that affects all/many platforms,
there is no need for further propagation to other source trees.

I'm afraid this doesn't only go for Open Source developers.

  - Hubert

so systemd re-invent what now - Kerberos? LDAP? Active Directory? NIS?
What became of the Unix philosophy of "one tool to do one job right"? :(

Given its roots in the BSD branch of Unices, I would love to see tcsh back as the default (user) shell.

BSD based Unix systems have this for along time.
Both in the base system, and for 3rd party software.

Base system example:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdwe...

Then again, there's not much need for "autoconf"-like system environment detection there. The actual build system is also in a lot of Makefile snippets in the share/mk directory:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdwe...

For 3rd party software that's build from a make-based system, see http://www.pkgsrc.org/

Do they tell us a lot about the sciences of Math, Physics, Law, Economy, Languages, Biology etc. at school?
I'd say not - we get some ideas from basic bootcamp, some common applications and more is served if you opt for higher education.
I guess the same goes for "CS" - for me, I'd be glad if I could assume everyone that I work with to have a _basic_ common understanding of this computer stuff, I don't need scientists :-)

... then just use a simple text file. Come up with your own scheme for title, date and time and it will work.
Either as single file with search, or with multiple files and grep(1).

The only really working alternative that I've found are:
  * a paper notebook. easily available when you have only one hand free because you're on the phone, and don't want to unlock an electronic device
  * sending yourself notes via email, and use your favourite email client for management.

If I'd want to live in a Microsoft world, I'd probably use OneNote.
YMMV, I'm curious about other options mentioned here.

  - Hubert

Cases like this show that it's important to make all clock tick the same,
and also to check and ensure they did. Is this check (for NTP, whatever)
in the standard maintenance cycle?

  - Hubert

yes please (for the rocket launcher & moron parts).

  - Hubert

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

www.totemo.ch - somewhat pricy, but very nice handling:

based upon a ruleset, it can send mails encrypted with PGP or S/MIME (if keys are known), as encrypted PDF (sender gets password for manual transmission) or store the message on a webserver and just give login/password to the recipient.
if no prior key exchange happened, the PDF-solution creates a PGP-key and a S/MIME cert and sends both public keys with the PDF, so the recipient can choose whatever they want.
when receiving mails with attached PGP/SMIME public keys/certs, totemo takes the certs and stores them for future communication in the opposite direction.

I've seen other solutions, but Totemo seems pretty mature and works very well for me with several companies.

  - Hubert

... www.gedenkseiten.de where you can make a profile for the late person, and visitors can light virtual candles.
YMMV if this is useful.

  - Hubert

because not everything is Linux & bash,
thank you very much.

  - Hubert