Same for version numbers, too! You have experience with AIX 5.2, Solaris 10, Red Hat Enterprise 5, but the ad asks for AIX 6.0, or Solaris 8 or Red Hat Enterprise 4.5...well chances are, you can handle the job with just a few adjustments, but the HR won't select your resume unless you have those listed as well.

Indeed, it rains in the desert too...a desert is defined by the amount of rain over a year. Wikipedia says:

"Deserts have been defined and classified in a number of ways, generally combining total precipitation, number of days on which this falls, temperature, and humidity, and sometimes additional factors.[8] For example, Phoenix, Arizona receives less than 250 mm (9.8 in) of precipitation per year, and is immediately recognized as being located in a desert because of its aridity-adapted plants. The North Slope of Alaska's Brooks Range also receives less than 250 mm (9.8 in) of precipitation per year and is often classified as a cold desert" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

- 40C? More like -50C, sometimes being below -60C! And dry...the Canadian Arctic is a desert! Most plastics do not survive long in the North, and many other materials behave strangely compared to being in more temperate environments.

Actually, my computers are always in a constant state of re-assembly...my "newest" computer has some components that are 3 year old! And my oldest computer has components that are new in the past year.

It's another bubble, and we shall see who is going to suffer when the education bubble bursts. I know students who would have to work half their lifetime to pay back the "student debt", but the same universities are attending have dramatically cut the number of tenured profs, while "part time" profs and TAs have to cover more and more of delivering the course load...and are purposely kept at "part time" status to the point they school will drop courses to make sure they don't work more than the number of hours the law says you must treat them as full time staff.

Universities, like governments, should not be run like companies, since education suffers when you do so.

Launch a spaceship, of course!

Do I detect a green sheen of envy, mr 135100? :-)

Truth!

I do know all of those operating systems, and many more. But, I was trying to inject a bit of humour too! If you take Linux, or anything (hint *BSD/Debian users...) too seriously, you annoy people, and make them less likely to use your operating system. Slackware (come on, *think* about the name!!!) is never going to be able to take itself too seriously! And that is why I still use it, as well as Mint, Mac OS, and Windows 7 (at least on this system...). One of the few nice things you can do since Apple switched to Intel from Motorola/PPC hardware!

Thanks...:-)

As usual, the newbies are clueless about humour/sarcasm...mixed with a bit of truth.

I've been using Linux since kernel 0.12 or so...and was using Slackware before it was Slackware!

Actually, us Slackware Users us whatever the fsck we want, because we know how to do it all! CDE, KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, raw X, screen, and anything else we can dig up. We not only know how to use it, we customize it so that other users on the same machine have a hard time time using it! What's more, we probably also know how to use Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, SUSE, Debian, Arch, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS (7-10), and another dozen operating systems that most of you haven't heard of! We can even make Windows useful! We Kick OS BUTT!

All single OS users must cringe in the shadow of our awesomeness!

Really!

Well there's your problem!

Windows aims to be a simple OS for the masses...as opposed to Unix which is aimed at computer geeks and engineers.

I would be surprised to see the same comment ending in..."AIX shop" or "Solaris shop" for example.

ttyl
          Farrell

How many hours/days will it be before they are pwned?

That is, pwned by someone other than the NSA...:-)

Books can be very immersive! For example, back when I first read Larry Niven's book Ringworld, I had an interesting experience...

I was bicycling through a bunch of allotment gardens, and noticed on plot had nothing but sunflowers...and I started to panic. SUNFLOWERS!!! Then I realized that it was cloudy that day, so I was safe....then I figuratively kicked myself...I was on Earth, not Ringworld!

That's Immersive!