Paid time off for training plus certs I would consider tantamount to vacation time, and would appreciate it.

Last training I went to was for SunCluster, and there was some neat hardware to play with in the lab, and the instructor was actually pretty solid. Got to do some extracurricular HBA tweaking as well as one of the other students' systems wasn't recognizing the one in his workstation.

Plus, A5000 arrays, which I just think are neat even though their capacity can be matched or exceeded by desktop drives these days.

Wifi can be handy as a 'core' network if you live in an apartment and don't want to (or can't) drill holes to run copper throughout. An extended 802.11n 5GHz-dedicated works well enough to feed 1080p from my upstairs NAS to my downstairs home theater. Still, if I owned, or had an apartment with ethernet wall plates, I'd take advantage of that..

Is there a SugarCRM module for running a medicinal marijuana biz?

This crap is basically what Richard Pryor was doing in Superman III, shaving off the difference between bid and ask, millions or billions of times a day.

Also, if you want to see more fraud, check out dark pools and fake bids..

My question is, how do you get picosecond performance with any networked system? Wouldn't you need a CPU clock to resolve that finely first at a bare minimum?

What, no Cyberiad reference? Maybe it's folded into a reply or under my threshold...

I'd turn it into an opensource 'App Store' that catalogs opensource software, provides downloads for all platforms, source and documentation, as well as interactive help wikis or other sorts of user-generated docs and troubleshooting help. Add a search engine or mechanism that lets folks put in the name of closed-source software they wish to substitute and have it come up with a list of well-supported opensource alternatives.

Or, sell it to American Express for a healthy profit and use the proceeds to fund OSS development.

The faster this channel can be made dead the better, they've been out of my Tivo channel list for many years. Fuck them dead with a fuck tool.

I guess Iceland's made its peace with geological instability (one would think you'd have to, by definition), but other geothermal efforts around the world are being halted or seriously delayed because of earthquakes they are believed to have caused:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/science/earth/11basel.html

Real admins don't make mistakes.

Or, at the very least, they have full backups.

sudo bash

Agree, plus the abortion that replaced SunSolve is clunky, buggy and quite horrible. There's a few decades of sunsolve and docs links that are now borked, which makes life a bit less pleasant.

Thanks, Larry...

I won't take any new currency seriously unless it's denominated in credits. Or possibly quatloos.

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to the late, great Madeline Kahn?

Actually, if you read your history, you'd know that they were driven out or forced into dhimmitude when Mohammed conquered Jerusalem.

Additionally, Medina was originally a Jewish city, its name was Hebrew, and Mohammed murdered every Jew there.

Oh, BTW, Mohammed was also a fucking degenerate child rapist.