Yea, and us old-hat Solaris Admins are left to mire in the bog that is now Oracle/Sun post-merger with many of our clients sick of their new [lack of] support so much so that we now have to port entire data centers over to RedHat and realize that all those years of Solaris experience on our resume will soon mean nothing... Thanks USA/Oracle!!!!

Nah, I'm old-school. I never claimed expertise in Perl, just use it on occasion. Awk is my weapon of choice because "Back in my day that's all we had, and we LIKED it that way"....

By the way, never seen memory referenced by Kilowatts before - is that the current draw of the vacuum tubes in use?

Sure, I've written lots of tools, but I never had to use a compiler for them. Shell scripts are all you need. Awk & Perl are the closest I come to programming languages generally speaking.

No, it's simpler than that - Developers and Applications people never bother with (or even think about) start/stop scripts, so after a reboot none of the applications are working (or working right because dependent applications aren't running) and they all blame the Unix Admin when after a reboot everything doesn't work right and expect us to fix their messes...

Stupid lUsers.......

Sounds similar to Dell's MediaDirect...