Are you guys running any tests in Seattle at night? DNS lookups regularly fail after midnight and are generally really spotty from midnight on. It's not a connectivity issue because I can always ssh using an ip address even when my web browser can't load pages due to lookup failures.

Woah, you should submit your findings to Nature.

No, I don't want to be premature here, but I think I smell a Nobel in Medicine.

Heh, I was worried about its utter absurdity in 2001.

You have autism. Now pick up those 274 toothpicks. 274, Toothpicks. 274.

The keyword is "yet".

I didn't get pulled over a single time until I was 38, yet I probably broke every traffic rule in the book.

It's a sales tax, sizzle chest.

They moved their servers from China to... China.

That is now of pine dog nevertheless real is play ball scraped?

Yeah, I guess that works.

Give them sudo and they can grab root whenever they want:/i>

First, why would support change the root password? They can sudo su and get root if you let them.

Second, one nice thing about giving them sudo instead of root is that you can disable/delete the user or change the password. This is preferable to changing the root password after they access it, especially if you have the same root password on dozens of machines.

If you give them a non-root user with all of the privileges of root, there's no way for them to know if you've really given them root.

sudo su

Why not just create an alternate account with sudo for them? Why give them root?

Even if it doesn't, that's almost as good as the phone in an iPhone.

You should probably wait for 0.3. Everyone knows sub 0.3 versions are not ready for prime time.

I've had three real jobs in my life. The first was for 10 years, the next for less than a year, and I have been at my current job for 10 years.

Without the humor.