We do have shrimp as well as prawns, it's just that while they're the same basic animal prawns can get really big, bigger than marron sometimes, and shrimps are necessarily small, about thumbnail size.

No wonder I don't feel very full after eating "Shrimp on the Barbie" here at Outback in the states :) They've been holding out on us, eating all the prawns themselves. Bastards!

Another reading of Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" is in order here :)

I don't think you quite understand. They're not religious holidays. They are recognition of the passing of the seasons and the cycle of life. And yes, there may have been multiple deities involved so I suppose you could consider religious in some fashion. But not in the modern sense of Christianity. These holidays were already being celebrated before Christianity and those trying to show folks "the way" incorporated these celebrations to do so as the local population weren't going to give them up. Best to co-op them and basically Christians said: "this holiday means this" where "this" conveniently tied into the whole that was being preached.

Don't mean to offend anyone, Christians or not, but let's recognize that these holidays have been around for a long long time. Longer than Christianity. (Note, not talking about Thanksgiving, as that is not a "religious" holiday although the celebration of a good years harvest goes back many, many years.) This was directed at the comments concerning Christmas and Easter.

From the summary:
" Potential attackers would, of course, first have to establish which games are installed on the target computer. "

Create a list of games by popularity, you're bound to find one of them somewhere. In other words, they may not be able to target a specific computer but the odds are good that they'd find many they could target. Even a specific computer, if you know anything about the owner, quite likely might have popular games x,y and z on it based the owner's preferences.....

Also, a lot of people are mentioning HVAC. It might be a good idea to have a slightly higher (1psi) air pressure in the server room than the rest of the plant. This way contaminants will tend to flow away from the server room, instead of towards it.

This! I've had a number of clients build new facilities and they always wanted to hide the server room in a place away from the office space in order to have more office space available. Link in a room off the warehouse. I'd make sure and tell them they'd better make sure airflow into the room is filtered and that the air pressure is greater in the room than outside or they'd be sucking all kinds of dirt into the server room

This is also a problem with exhausting outside. Air flowing at a high rate to the outside has to bring it in from somewhere. Restaurants use what's called "make up air" returns in the kitchen so as not to pull the A/C or heat from the dining area. Basically the make up air was a separate vent to the outside located within exhaust hoods over grills and what not.

Fortunately, many of these were HVAC companies doing their own installation and they took my advice.

The old photos all show the unrestored version, and all photos of the restored version are recent and copyrighted. It's an ugly practice and needs to be outlawed.

Ugly indeed. As an example, I give you this:

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/23/church-masterpiece-restored-as-mr-bean-would-do-it/

If I had a choice of working where the software was the product the company was selling (and I'm not quite sure that this is the case in your current job, but seems to be more so based on what you said) or working where IT and software development is a cost center, I'd pick the former every time. I once worked at at place (Dir. of Software Development) and guess who was treated the best and made the most money: Sales or IT?

We were a necessary drain on the company, at least that's how upper management viewed it. They couldn't see that with no IT infrastructure, including the code we developed that the whole company ran on, there would be no sales.

Just food for thought there......

I'm not surprised that Apple has rejected an App that has the purpose of getting people interested in the author's own political agenda. Not that I agree or disagree with it what he's trying to do. Just that Angry Birds may be angry, but pigs aren't representing countries, political affiliations or sensitive topics in general.

I'm not saying there is not a place for this type of App. But think about it, Apples App store is frequently referred to as a "Walled Garden" It's not a place to rock the boat so to speak. Regardless of whether or not that's "right" doesn't matter. It's Apple's garden, and they can do as they please.

Now personally, I won't buy an Apple product that walls me in from information that could potentially be enlightening to me. And I'm sure Apple doesn't care.

Sorry, read Linux instead of Unix. Same principles apply though.

Best answer I can give you: if you're good enough, you'll be able to tell if they're good enough. When I talk to someone I have a pretty good feel if they're as good at their job as I am at mine. Got a carpenter buddy. He's a damn fine one. I'm not, but I still know he is.......

Believe it or not, there are plenty of professionals out there with significant admin experience with both Unix and Windows. Being a Windows professional doesn't make you some sort of dirt-eating Tauron, nor does it necessarily make you a "fan" who's chosen his side in some nerd-rage fight to the death.

Most definitely. I was a server admin for clients of mine who were too small to have one full time. Ran Linux on my own desktop, also had Windows and Linux servers running on different machines. I could deal with either. I wasn't a "fan" of anything. I was a professional who took care of my clients. Unix, Linux, Windows, it didn't matter. What mattered was my knowledge and making whatever they had chosen to run work. And work well.

As far as how to gauge their skills.... You won't be able to, as the good ones will know more than you do. Pay attention to what they have done in the past, contact their previous employers. Certs don't mean much, I've run across a few that didn't know anymore than was needed to pass the tests.

Maybe pose problems in a Linux domain that you are familiar with, ask them how they would handle that in Windows. Ask them to explain how it works differently from what you're doing. Ask them general security questions that should be known by all server admins. Firewalls, etc.

If you're in charge, you need to be able to assess their work. And that depends on the type of Win servers you're going to run. Outward facing? Database? In-house application only?

So much depends on what the servers do. Someone may be a great domain admin, but suck at the database side of things.

I know, not much help. But please don't call them "fans" :)

Ah, the return of Clippy? "It looks like you're trying to use Windows" or some other inane or obvious comment. Or perhaps Bob? Damn, where are they when you need them.

Those things would not be Color printing. In fact, you could view this process as monochrome too, except when the comparitively long wavelength visible light hits it, it acts in a similar way to a pigmint (well, diffraction isn't exactly the same, but similar enough).

Pigmint, huh. Isn't that the pork rind they leave on your pillow at night at a Motel 6 in the south? :)