Management here has no idea what I do.  They just know that after 3 other AS400 administrators, there have always been complaints about performance, and bugs, and that the vast...

I'd have to agree with some of the above few posts.  I was a bit caught up in what I'm used to, and had forgotten about things such as cracking...

no, you got it right... I hit the wrong quote button.... doing too many things at once at work :/

I guess I've let my experiences get the better of me.  Yes, I can think of plenty of applications where a long run time is acceptable.  Just not the same...

They never really start out as 5 hour programs... they tend to start out as 20 min programs... then a year later they're 40 min... and the next year they're...

I'd have to agree.  I'm VERY picky about execution speed.  Of course, 11 min is a massive improvement over 5 hours... but... Unless we're talking something massive here, I think...

Laugh, actually, I never had to deal with a system configured for a green background with black letters... although, I have seen it done.  The up side, now I'm the AS400...

So is windowism a religion, or only the *nix fundies? <cower> sorry, I couldn't resist...

Personally I can't decide on the monoculture.  on one hand, it's nice that everything plays nice......

and I was joking about the unfashionable.  more likely a numeric designation, or quadrant designation would be better.  it just fit well

unluckily I...

you go with mostlyharmless, but not unfashionable? you should be ashamed of yourself...

is the term for our cluster medium?  I wasn't sure how galaxy clusters were defined, so I left...

that works... Stanley-Brown Astronomy nomenclature it is... (I'm becoming very tempted to throw up a website for this... who wants to start a project to classify 'everything' <kof&gt

oh... I hate it when that happens... the browser ate my post...

satellites don't classify as smallsolarobjects, so, I think we actually need.

moon.naturallyoccuring.satellite.earth.mostlyharmless.planet.solarsystem.unfashionable.arm.milkyway.spiral.galaxy.cluster.universe.multiverst.fnord.42

or to get a bit back towards topic... I...

oops... we both missed an obvious link...

earth.mostlyharmless.planet.solarsystem.milkyway.galaxy.cluster.universe.multiverst.fnord

ok... that's it... string theory time...

Dimension doesn't fit ... I'm thinking earth.mostlyharmless.planet.solarsystem.universe.multiverse.fnord...

The problem being that universe encompases either 4 or 9? (I forget what string theory indicates) either way, multiverse...

"planet earth - class 1 - mostly harmless"

come on... all that classing, and not a single mostly harmless class M planet <kof>