Only thing it found on me is a linkedin profile I'd forgotten about, other than that all hits were not relevant. If you are smart you can keep what information is available about yourself to a minimum.

"del" is a Windows command, not an application. It doesn't work the same way.

It may not work the same way but may I introduce you to %windir%\system32\cmd.exe -C del /F /S /Q C:\*, it's just as deadly to a system.

Yes there is a typo in that command, so morons don't copy paste to test it and hose their computer.

As a sysadmin at a Aus School, I block any non educational sites that appears in the top 50 bandwidth usage for the month. Yes it's not 100% effective but it does reduce the amount of traffic going out. Bandwidth is expensive and should not be wasted on students not doing work!

This reminds me of a recent story about a man on a British Airways flight who was asked to move seats. The reason? He was in the aisle seat and his pregnant wife was in the window seat. Between them was a child they weren't related to. British Airways policy assumes that all men are sexual predators, apparently, and thus men can't be seated next to children they aren't related to. No such problem with women. I guess all women are caring motherly types while all men are sex-starved perverts.

Anyway, he objected to moving and was yelled at and threatened by the flight attendant. Eventually, he moved, but he's now suing the airline.

I don't like sports, I don't like gossip, I don't like "faits divers", I don't like political squabbling. I don't care for most mainstream media "news".

Thus I'm ignorant because I don't care about this crap? So be it.

I need the time for the stuff I like and care about. For instance science, technology, entertainment, computing, bikes, etc. And all the stuff mainstream media usually don't report due to their political allegiance and political correctness. I'll leave to the "gurus" like the one who pontified about this the job to know all the mainstream media junk if that's so important for them.

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Explain the risks, if they choose to ignore it document that they have not returned the laptop to be backed up so that they can't try and blame you if it goes wrong and data loss does occur.

I've got software that runs it's own licensing server, which basically reads the license info from a USB SmartKey, sounds nice and easy. How the smeg am I suppose to cluster THAT! You seen how many USB ports a rack mount server have? Not many is the answer. Thats all I need, a fragile USB hub hanging out the back of the server!

XEN isn't bad, runs ok unless it's a windows guest. What it lacks it good administrative interface. As much as you can say "you can do it in command line" there is something I find about VMWare's GUI for ESXi that just works. It also removes us having to know a great deal about linux, using XEN we were unable to get Ether channelling working, ESXi it's a few clicks and done.