Sounds like this is the Martian way!

I think you're quoting http://bash.org/?2832 "-Global- [Logon News - Dec 29 2001] Welcome to Evolnet! Where the men are men, the women are men, and the boys are fbi agents. but some of the men are really women. Enjoy!"

AD is useful for providing policy control over objects (eg for rolling out configurations to a particular set of devices), providing a directory with nested groups for granular access to network resources (file shares, web based systems, desktops, networks, anything that integrates with AD). AD also provides a lot of logs so you can see wtf happened after an event, or when performing regular auditing. If you're running a Windows shop you can't deny that AD is your most powerful tool, I've not yet come across anything else that can do what it does. I inherited Samba4 domain controllers and while they worked, switching to AD brought with it increased stability and a full integration with the clients that we could have only hoped for under S4.

Sometimes it's a good idea to have an incident management process that overrides controls to achieve aims within agreed timeframes. Triggering of the process has to match defined criteria, eg "we got compromised".

"but we might need this stuff later, so i took a copy on my personal usb device and kept it in my glovebox because nobody would find it there"

Services running from multiple hosts... load balancing? Wow, what an achievement.

The last corporation I worked for had their entire estate of developers running a mixture of CentOS / RedHat on their developer desktops. You can't tell me 5000+ employees of this corporation are 'fanboys', can you?

The current business I work for has all of their systems administrators running Linux on their desktop (Fedora and/or CentOS). If you're a serious user of the Linux technology stack, you'd better not be using Windows as by comparison it's shit.

... and JBoss also kicks ass - from someone who's had to support multiple clusters of application servers distributed around the globe. RedHat + JBoss make this dead easy to manage and monitor, thank god!

P.S. it's now called WildFly.

FTFY

I have recently implemented RStudio for a customer. http://www.rstudio.com/ It's a web interface for R which appears to be clean and easy to use. Installation was straightforward from RPM, you only need R-core, R-devel xdgutils and the rstudio RPM itself.

Oh god! This is a terrible post. It's like comparing apples and oranges. These are two totally different cases... Slashdot, you are quickly becoming the worst tech news site on the Internet :(

How does this play with SGE / OGE? Can you centrally configure each node to mount a share? How about install a custom kernel, modules, packages, infiniband config and Lustre mount? If it can do these then it's going to be useful for real clusters.

THIS.

I didn't do the maths and just installed an SSD as my OS disk... in 2010. It's still there now despite being used daily and having been re-installed a couple of times (yes, Windows).

I'm struggling to see why this is my problem? If I work in a job that doesn't pay enough for me to survive, I find a new job. Why should these people be treated any differently just because they're self-employed musicians?