Amen brother...

We have a forecast of between 29*C in Pretoria (for the top-enders: Google claims that's about 84*F) and 27*C in Johannesburg (apparently about 81*F) today... Pity the water's still a bit to cold for swimming yet, but that should change soon enough... :-)

Either that, or a Shell-script Meister...

Perhaps it's time to become familiar with something better...

<quote><p>Just to elaborate a bit: during the years i have installed hundreds (if not thousands) of instances of Windows, Linux as well as OSX. The amount of questions i have had related to the ability to make bootable disks on OSX vs Linux and Win is comparable to the relative national debt of Vatican vs USA</p></quote>
<p>Oh God, I never realized the Vatican was in that much debt!</p>

Inherited code and scripts. Most of them looking like they'd been regurgitated by a deranged monkey. On LSD.

We'd only started investigating ZFS recently (I work for a VERY conservative company) so all our current storage live on EMC/Veritas/etc...

We use JFS2 (which seems to handle the load fairly well) and GPFS on AIX but most of the Solaris systems are on either UFS or VXFS.

Most of the heave lifting, database wise, gets done by the mainframe so we can still get away with it.

Most of the other Unixey systems (mostly RedHat, but some SuSE and some FreeBSD) are not SAN connected (yet, they will have to be within this year) so we have no worries there.

IBM is pushing PPC/AIX quite aggressively over here; and I'm porting our in-house code to AIX as fast as I can.

Thank $DEITY I've beed coding rather defensively for a while, so most of my C compiles just fine on AIX. Perl/Python is a cinch, but I will admit some of the Shell scripts (most of them written years before I started here) are giving me some headaches. Too many Sun-isms in those...

If it carries on like this we'll be on AIX as our majority platform before year-end (Power7/LPARS/AIX makes a convincing argument) with Solaris being relegated to only those systems where we really have no choice.

Isn't that a bit extreme...

Shouldn't they at least look under the pillows on the couch first? I tend to find my lost remote there quite often...

'Cepting, over here in South Africa we referred to the 3.5" one as a "Stiffy"...

Which nicely lead to a 5.25" floppy, a 3.5" stiffy and a lot of puerile humour...

Huh?!

I thought they already were!

Ah... But there are 11 (binary) types of people! Or put in another way, there are 10 types of people:

Those who understand it,
those who don't and
those who ask: "What the fsck is Ternary?!"

There, fixed that for you... This is Slashdot, after all...

Oh wait, sorry, $1,700 after the OEM Win7 license.

I'm not personally convinced that I'd be able to force myself to use Windows for a mere $1700... If Microsoft paid me $17000, though, I might make an effort to at least pretend to love^W like^W tolerate it for a couple of months.

On second thoughts, no. Still not worth it.

I guess I'll have to just "suffer" continuing using Linux and MacOS, then.... /sigh

s/liking/loving/ and then we can talk...

If you are really sincere, I might be convinced to allow you to become a follower...

s/is an ATM/is any system/

Just sayin'...