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Comment Re:It takes a special kind of stupidity (Score 1) 252

I can vouch for the killing ability of owls. Several years ago we had many feral cats in the neighborhood that were, for lack of a better description, breeding like rabbits. I was outside after midnight and was watching two kittens bounce across my lawn. They paused for a second and during that instant, an owl flew out of our pine tree and grabbed one of the kittens. I believe it was a barred owl judging by the size. Being an animal lover, it was hard to watch and hear a kitten being killed. However, also as an animal lover, I couldn't help but marvel at the hunting ability of an owl in the dead of night.

Comment Re:ask to see a server they configured (Score 1) 453

Agreed. I had one interviewer last year ask for access to previous customer data. I used to work in the Banking and Energy Generation/Supply industries, so I simply told the interviewer that I value my business relationships too much to turn over confidential information to a stranger. If you want to know if someone knows how to configure Samba, give the applicant the criteria you want fulfilled, have them write a smb.conf file, run testparm against it, and then see if it fulfills your criteria. Every admin has their personal preferences how to code and solve problems. If you find someone who can solve yours, let them do what they do best and hire them.

Comment How the mighty have fallen (Score 3, Interesting) 116

As a former IBM employee, I am disappointed to see the company that gave us some of the best typewriters in the world, the mainframe and the Personal Computer, producing this sort of drek after slashing jobs in the US.

I guess it was a matter of time before "IBM India Research Lab" produced something like this. They certainly haven't been producing any real business machines or providing decent customer service to IBM Global Services customers.

Look for more of the same from IBM. IBMs CEO Sam Palmisano has said repeatedly in the past year that IBM will be focusing more on "analytics".

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