Vim:
Time to actually peruse the documentation; I
managed to somehow encrypt one of my web pages by accident
with "vimcrypt". Not that it was too big of a deal; Google is my (caching)
backup device. ;-)
Solaris:
I've almost managed to get one of my Linux boxes
serving as a network boot server for my old SS2; hopefully
I'll actually get Solaris 7 loaded on that beast this
evening. I am now quite ready for the network installation
section of the Sun
Certified System Administrator exam. Which I really need
to finish studying for; I should have picked up that cert
(well, the 2.6 version of it, anyway) four years ago, but
I've just been too lazy.
Acronymania, Keyworditis:
I've been perusing a few job boards lately, just for
fun, and I'm amazed at the copy that the headhunters get
away with publishing; they're rivalling the last round of
spam I received for grammar and punctuation abuse. But the
key feature of all of these is the overuse of cryptic
acronyms and industry buzzwords; it doesn't take much to
realize that most of those are written by recruiters with
absolutely no understanding of the positions they're hiring
for. It worries me that these are the gatekeepers for most
new entrants to the business; it's akin to the U.S. Patent
Office trying to determine the validity of patents on
industries they can't possibly know the details of.