If it's all outsourced to the cloud, guess what? *Poof*, no admin! That's the whole point, remember? Outsource anything that requires any skill or training, and keep a help desk flunky around part time to swap out broken mice.

You must have missed the part where IBM's wholly owned subsidiaries in Germany and Poland operated closely with the Nazi regime to design, create, and maintain the various census and camp-tracking systems.

IBM: Let's build a smarter oven.

Agreed. For MMO gaming, I haven't found anything that can beat the Naga. It takes a few days to get used to, but after the initial muscle memory is created you're golden. My only complaint is the ergonomics, since my hand doesn't quite fit right with the pinky-rest on the right.

You stated that " Stack Overflow does a far better job of getting quality answers these days," which was immediately followed by an assertion that EE is obsolete. The only logical conclusion to your statements is that you believe EE to be obsolete because of Stack Overflow. My only question is regarding how Stack Overflow makes EE obsolete when EE is only comprised of about 10% programming topics. Oh, and in what part of the world does someone need clarification on what Exchange means in this context?

Well the working directory for tcpip.sys is C:\Windows\System32\drivers. etc\hosts is accessed from that same directory. Oh yeah, and it has the same basic format, too. As does etc\services. And etc\protocol(s). And etc\networks. I don't think that it's a happy coincidence.

Stackoverflow is for codemonkeys. It's useless for system, network, and storage administrators.

If there's a great alternative to EE that would, for example, have info on Microsoft Exchange, Cisco routers, and CLARiiON systems, I'm all ears.

So, where is the Exchange section on StackOverflow? What about Cisco? A cursory glance at the category for those two nets ~500 combined results, with almost all of them being related to C#, Java, or VB.net.

Nope.

/etc/hosts is also in Windows, but it's hidden down in the windows directory as c:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. Fun fact: tcpip.sys used to be mostly BSD code.

Right now, you can just scroll down. No trickery needed, even on IE.

Don't even have to hit Cached version anymore, at least on any browser I've used.

Nah, the site scraper ones are pretty obvious because they'll be repeated verbatim across twenty sites with unrecognizable domain names. Often the "answer" will be incomprehensible, in a foreign language, or just plain wrong. I hate those mailing list aggregator sites for that very reason.

The "End" key on my keyboard works wonderfully for scrolling to the bottom of the EE page. It's a problem of whether or not any other sites even have the answer I'm looking for. If I can find it in a more convenient format, I'm generally all ears, but most of the other sites that look relevant in searches are just one of the hundreds of poor copies of email/newsletter digests that are never answered. Those bass-ackwards email aggregators would be the absolute first thing on my list to block.