The last two shops I've been at have tuition reimbursement programs, but they only apply to 2 or 4 year accredited colleges and universities. This leads to a weird situation where they could pay $10500 over 3 years to help pay for a diploma mill MBA but can't approve $3500 to pay for industry coursework from vmware/emc/redhat/etc that actually interests me.

quit being a bunch of dumbasses, but good luck with that. --One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

Hotjava It was slow but I used it as a parity check when NS4.x and IE4/IE5 had differences on how they were rendering the pages I was writing back then.

Planck Time is the most rational base unit for time in my mind. Set the epoch at some arbitrary value further back than any experimental theorized time for the big bang (more than 15 billion years ago should do the trick) and count planck seconds since this epoch.

I hate having to jump through hoops to install debian on dell hardware.

Theoretical, for a single piece of HW Solaris 10 on a Sun Sparc Enterprise T5440, 4 Processors 512GB Ram 256 LDOM's per server 8191 Zones per LDOM 1048448 Total machines in a 4RU enclosure the machines would be severely IO and disk space bound (Only 4x300GB disks in the box), but it could be done Anyone know the theoretical numbers for Linux on Z or a fully configured vmware cluster?

is Adobe continuing their trend of writing awful, inconsistent, ugly, usually-slow UIs?

This came up a while ago, on John Nack (PS product manager)'s blog. Basically they think their custom UI stuff for CS is the beez knees, and you unlucky shmoes who "have to use" CS will be getting MORE not less of their crap in future (including CS5) versions.

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