Well, my experience/usage with/of CFL bulbs goes back to 1989 and in five different houses, using several different brands/price ranges of CFL's, and I can definitely tell you that they DO NOT last as long as a regular incandescent bulb.

No way, and your sample must be rather small to be touting such results, I'll wager that in five years you'll see what we're talking about, the advertised lifetime of CFL bulbs is a LIE.

I still use CFL's where I leave lights on for a long time, but I prefer quartz halogen spectrum lighting much better for reading and tasks like cooking.

So sorry, I'm a bit late to the Party.

Have the Piss-on jokes started yet?

Last night, I was working with an old sys admin and he loves AIX for backend work, and feels that linux has too much a "collegiate feel" to it.

He mentioned that any "experienced" AIX folks would know what this is: "When in trouble scream and shout, wave your arms and run about".

Apparently it's a "hangs on boot", "error" message.