A very wise Network Admin once told me.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience comes from mistakes.

So, you see most of us wise administrators got our experience somewhere else, if you know what I mean.

wink wink, nudge, nudge.

We use to always compare TCP/IP packets to pidgeons.. ..
The joke was send more pidgeons and stop routing them over the pond where the duck hunters are.

Brings to mind the old expression, never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck load of DLT tapes going 55mph.
Or the recover plan of "TOPS" ..... Tapes on Planes

YMMV

When is the last time they were right about anything? .. .. ..
Can't think of one? Yea Me either.

Nuff said

Wow what a shocker... People who meditate do so to focus on ONE point and keep that focus for as long as possible.
Everyone knows that a core problem with people is a lack of focus.... OH Look a Quarter!!! Anyway, where was I?
Oh yes, the lack of attention and focus, And just how much did this study cost us?

The problem is that there are many laws that shield people from being held responisible for their actions. Qualified immunity, sovereign immunity and other types of immunity, these types of protections giving to a select group of people should be stricked as a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Admendment.

        Until all of the selective protection laws are struck down, your rights will be trampled. The people transgressing know they are protected and can and do get away with it.

        We all know this kind of thing is wrong and there should be no law protecting ANYONE who did or think of doing such a thing,
How can someone violate Federal Rights and be shielded in any manor?

        I thought we were crazy about protecting kids in this country, and about child porn. Are we saying they are no such people working as school officals?

If a school administrator strip searched my Daughter or checked her painties, he had better be taken into police custody for his own protection.

BIZZZZZIT.... wrong.......

Our standard model is just in and of itself an assumption... ... We really know very little and assume a great deal about everything. Anyone who tells you otherwise knows even less.

If it is not broken, don't fix it.

If it is broken, and can not be fixed, provide a workaround.

If after the workaround it is still broken, shim it.

The shim is therefore the workaround for the workaround.

Now then, if we Vertulize the Shim, and put it in the forest where no one can hear it crash, does the problem realy exist?

Sounds like a great way to get to five 9's to me.

YMMV

[quote]device that can manipulate and interact with its environment[/quote]

I will stick with the katana .. it manupulates and interacts with the phyical enviroment very well.

Does a good job on people with pesky magic wands too!

No sensors or gizmos needed, and only effects what you point it.

YMMV

On the bright side, due to the colossal stupidity of the public, pork prices are droping.

In down times it is good to have some cheap meat products at the store.

Pork, its what's for dinner. :)

I am critical, but I also have choices about what when and how to use linux. So why be vocal about what you dislike?

"Every endeavour of human stupidity has its champion."

nuff said

That is what we are for. I have made a good living making computers play nice with each other.

Computers are complicated, they are ment to be so and require experts.

This whole, computes are easy to use, is a lie, driven by marketing and greed, and has led us to the insecure, virus ridden, barely functional place we are now.

This is my post the last time.. ..

Now somewhere a deal has been struck.. ..

If you think that this has to do with anything more you are living in a dream world.

Just follow the money.

That is Crap.. .. A man who will work for less then the current market rate is a fool and being take advantage of.

If you sell your skill cheap you lower the market value of everyone.

This should be clue #1 to an employer, This candidate is not very smart or is indentured.

However, Most companies don't cares if they get the best skilled workers or the well being of those workers. It's just about the bottom line and they will take mediocre to save a buck almost without fail.