While I think outsourcing is generally a byproduct from the papermill MBA doctrine of the 90's, I wholeheartedly agree with you on the arrogance bit. The days of the BOFH-all-users-are-stupid mentality has no place today. If you don't communicate early and often to your users and generally act like an arrogant ass someone else will do your job for you. Granted, technically they could be inferior but at that point does it really matter? I'm sick of the arrogant fiefdoms some IT pros and SA's think is cool to promote. I can't stand the negativity that mentality creates. I'm a Sr. SA in a small, global team of Linux sysadmins supporting a fortune 50 - negativity and 90's-esque god-complex BOFH has no place in an environment where things just need to get done and things have to stay up and running (and improving).

The military justice system is a whole different world than that of civilians, it will be interesting to see if any of the circumstantial evidence will even matter.

I can't help to think this is why more emphasis on QA and staging changes appropriately and testing thoroughly and less focus on agile, devops type methodology would have helped. It's a well known fact that Facebook developers work on live production data.

Reboot a webserver nightly?
You must be doing something wrong I'd that's required.

Looks Like Oracle is no longer supporting OpenOffice as of Friday the 15th

http://www.neowin.net/news/oracle-drops-openofficeorg

I couldn't agree more, they have a track record for doing the right thing.

You can download a 60-day trial of RHEL here, just make a free RHN account first.
https://www.redhat.com/wapps/eval/index.html?evaluation_id=1008

It doesn't time out and you can use it forever you just won't receive updates after 60 days. You can also compile your own updates from the freely available SRC rpms like all the other RHEL clones do should you choose.

> I never liked(/got?) the Desktop metaphor: I run everything I can at Full Screen, and Alt-Tab between my apps, whether on Windows XP or FVWM2 on Linux.

That seems to be the way GNOME3 forces workflow, folks I know that prefer to work this way are fans of it and everyone else is not.
Personally, I prefer XFCE + Compiz + Emerald theme manager on Fedora - I find it's simplistic enough to stay out of my way but provides the expose-like window management features for multi-tasking lots of different things. To each his/her own I suppose, choice is a good thing.

There is quite a lot of truth to this statement.

FTFY

seriously, who runs their web servers on Windows anymore? (read: ever)

In my experience on XFCE 4.6.x and Fedora (11 to 14+) it is much faster than GNOME on several different laptop/desktop hardware configurations. Average startup from login to usable desktop is 1/2 the time it takes GNOME at least, and that's with compiz + emerald running.

It boils down to what you are after, the galaxytab is quite small (7" or so) and I could get the same functionality out of a phone. I opted for something a big larger (11") with an NVidia tegra chipset so I could play HD movies. Do you want something with good hardware and size (350USD+) or something small and more economical? (200USD+)

I have the Viewsonic gtablet[1] and it's quite nice. The default firmware/rom that it ships with is horrible but you can use an alternate ROM like TNT Lite[2] and it's really slick. I am able to watch 720p/1080p HD movies on long plane rides (after i've re-encoded them with ffmpeg to fit native reso and mp4 format) use Skype and any other Android apps with an 8-10hr battery life.

[1] - http://www.viewsonic.com/gtablet/
[2] - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004

no, it was stated in the article x11 tunnelling featureset would still be available. The better question to ask is why your server admins rely on graphical admin programs.

Have you taken a look at Fedora Directory Server? Red Hat also sells/supports an enterprise version.

http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Screenshots