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Unfortunately, the ReadyBoost concept seems to be patented in the US. Don't know if this patent still applies when the SSD is actually faster in every way than the moving platter disk, however. The clever trick of ReadyBoost was realizing that an USB drive could deliver a small file faster than a hard disk's seek time, so you save time even if the disk has a better sustained data rate over time for big reads.

I hate overlapping windows, and also never minimize anything except pidgin, so my 40ish (stopped counting after 30) open windows are currently spread over 7 dual 1600x1200 virtual desktops. And that's counting rdesktop as one open window.

I wouldn't accept a job where I'd be the only admin. For one thing, the company won't be set to handle my vacation time or any sick leave in a way I'm comfortable with. More importantly, I find that being the only guy who works with something gets old fast. I want someone to discuss ideas with who actually understand what I'm saying and can provide valuable input.

I love it when the boss or project manager takes this role. In addition to reminding people to eat, this person should also be in charge of making people go home to sleep, so we can continue in a useful manner tomorrow and maybe the day after.

When installing road user charging systems, the project manager also makes a fine test car driver.. :)

I'm much more happy with ours after we moved the servers to RHEL (and ~5 years more recent hardware).. We even get proper Gnome now :)

Yah. I know a few people who probably had it, and a few more who got sent home from work for a week just in case, but only one person who actually had it confirmed by blood test.

Personally, I got my vaccine early, claiming "risk group" privileges :)

Actually, failure to smell the milk after I open it has given me grief more times than those other things put together.

We're using ip helper forwarding to two ISC dhcp3 servers (on linux) with a load balance / failover setup. Works just dandy for a few thousand users and 200+ subnets.

Separate pools and subnets per vlan and all that stuff, of course. I'm sure there are howtos on the web..

He explains why DNSSEC fixes one aspect of MiTM attacks, but he fails to mention any reason to prefer it over SSL certificates, or even in addition to SSL certificates. The example he uses (login / banking information) isn't something you'd want to be passing around unencrypted, anyway..

I've read about what DNSSEC does, but I haven't found is an actual reason why anyone should care. Is there one?

Seems to me it kinda-sorta solves a few non-problems, and any actual problems it might touch upon have been solved better by SSL certificates years ago. Is it just that ISC is envious of the SSL cert sellers, and want to create a new action they can have the largest piece of?

Laptop throwing contest.

As I recall, the ubuntu installer is pretty helpful about deleting everything except /home if you install to a previously used "one-big-filesystem". I don't remember exactly how it goes, but I think it asks if this is what you want by default, kind of "this filesystem seems to already have been used for a linux install" kind of thing.

(and in case that bit breaks, I keep 6 months worth of daily rdiff-backup of my home directory on a different computer)

I only change when changing sounds like less work than keeping the old setup.

In 10-11 years of desktop linux use, I'm on roughly my third desktop configuration, and that's counting fvwm2 and gnome-with-fvwm2-as-window-manager as two different setups. (The first one was afterstep, which I used for 5-6 years until the release of 2.0 completely broke my config, and changing to fvwm seemed easier than fixing afterstep).

It's a silly admin who hands out root to edit a file. Both the time-honored practice of fiddling with groups and the more newfangled way of using posix ACLs (setfacl) would be safer for the admin and more convenient for the user. Sudo is for restarting the service after the config file has been edited.

(but yeah, I'm sure quite a few admins can be tricked into giving you root that way. Certain services could be used to gain root, too, if you're free to edit the config file as you wish).