Beat them.

He's already decided to live near a major piece of infrastructure, that being his building's roof. I lived in a top floor apartment (real apartment, not a condo) in the past, so I know how it is. Lets just say the guy on the top floor reports more roof leaks to management than the guy on the first floor. If the roof leaks all the way to the first floor, you've got real problems. It seems disturbing to have contractors occasionally stomping around on the roof, but its actually less annoying than having residents stomping above your ceiling all the time. Also, even in cities, animals live on roofs. Loud animals that chirp at sunrise and creepily scratch at the roof at all hours, and they build ugly nests out of trash and crap all over your windows.

Another interesting point is about two decades ago I turned down an entry level job of visiting cell sites and running periodic sweeps on the antennas with a spectrum analyzer and TDR the feedlines, along with visual inspection of the antennas and equipment. You'll have a regular "scheduled" visitor, not just repairs and upgrades. I imagine it would be about as annoying as having a water meter reader visit, no big deal, just be prepared for it.

I also felt the same after passing God Emperor of Dune, which I really liked. By the time I started Heretics, I just stopped caring about the story, and the characters (especially an n'th clone of Duncan Idaho again). I did get through Chapterhouse, and still felt the same. I never bothered with any of the KJA/BH additions, I've previously been, told that's been a good idea. I prefered the mini series to the film version, especially the Children of Dune sequel made. A new film is welcome, but I wouldn't expect it to be any different from the previous attempts.

Good points. QoS can be a bitch to lab on Cisco gear, with the amount of variations between platform types, and IOS code. Most labs in my experience are usually made up of older equipment, that differs from production, that don't support the QoS features on the production gear (ie c3550 in lab, vs c3560/c3750/c6500 in production). Getting the PHBs to agree upgrading lab gear, can be harder than getting approval for a lab in the first place.

I guess while the PHBs scour other employees facebook, twitter and myspace pages for dirt, the employees can read up on their PHBs dirt in return.

In regards to U2's album. Some of us may have bought the tracks legitimately, as the album was sold online two weeks before the album's official release date, by their very own label/distributor in Australia. http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/web/look-who-leaked-u2s-new-album/2009/02/20/1234633039937.html