We took his soul to heaven and were supposed to leave it in the module, but we brought it back.

I assume you used the VMWare Converter P2V tool to move your servers, which works very well for Windows and not as well for Linux. VMWare Converter fiddles with the underlying Windows configuration so the image will work well on VMWare.

If you had used a Linux cloning tool, such as Clonezilla, you probably would have had a different experience. Of course, some older distros such as RHEL4/CentOS4 also did stupid things like the initrd would only contain the SCSI driver it needs to boot on specific hardware. Sometimes you would have to go back to the original hardware and tell it to store/load the SCSI driver for VMWare.

Sometimes it pays to have better sys-admins.

The next step is to cure the HIV with Ebola.

Ah, then it truly is a Quantum Leap.

Recent Slashdot article: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/03/2116249/Anniston-Alabama-To-Censor-Employees-Facebook-Pages

I think it may be a little more complicated than this. I have been out of school for a while so I am not up to speed on proofs, theorems, etc.

I think the hole in your logic may be that 0.333... == 1/3. I think 0.333... may only be a very close numerical approximation of 1/3, but 1/3 cannot be expressed absolutely as a number (even assuming infinite 3s).

I have read about the issue of 0.999... = 1 several times, but the explanation is much more complex than this.

SSL certificates have two goals, identity/trust and encryption. Self-signed certs establish encryption by default. If you save the self-signed certificate in your browser, then trust/identity is established manually, which is the only selling point of of a cert signed by a CA. Once you have the cert saved an error message is no longer displayed unless the certificate changes.

Firefox has this option selected by default upon bypassing the initial error message. In IE, view the certificate and "Install certificate..." Done.

This most certainly deserves a good old NCIS Gibbs back-of-the-head slap.

What a balanced article title. It makes "positive reinforcement" sound downright evil. I suppose dogs should just train themselves because the trainers just say so and its the "right thing to do."

This thread has peaked my interest.

Wow, Clippy sounds even more evil now.

To quote the animated President Truman:

"If you come in peace, surrender or be destroyed. If you're here to make war, we surrender."

And then Nick Mason will cut you up into little pieces.

Actually, most small businesses should not be paying taxes on profits, at least on a federal level in the US. Most small businesses if they are setup as S Corps or LLCs do not pay taxes except on maintaining employees (payroll and unemployment taxes). All taxes (for profits/retained earnings) are passed on to investers, ie shareholders.

In the end, higher taxes directly impacts investors more than it does small businesses. Higher taxes do mean less retained earnings, ie less for the company to reinvest in its own future. Also, the less money investors have, the less they can invest back into the market and therefore small business.