If your performance is that critical to you, then all of that should be taken care of by your SAN.

Or you can join a club of sorts that does an activity that you enjoy. Curling, dodge ball, or martial arts, for example....

Hmmm. Maybe try the simpler PS1 that I posted above?

Re: note 1: don't ever change root's shell unless you really, really know what you're doing.

Wow, that's really long. I just change my PS1 by putting something like this in my .bashrc —

'sudo bash' will do the trick (it will start a new bash shell as root, but without sourcing root's dot-files or global equivalents (.profile, /etc/profile, etc), so remember that when using anything that might have been aliased in root's profile (e.g. 'rm' will not be aliased to 'rm -i' like it often is, etc).

And often you aren't privy to their schedule, like the trains that I grew up having to wait for (traveling to/from a navy sub base).

There are plenty of good, reliable used cars available for under $15k. What are you looking for in a car?

There's no reason to have a wad of cash if your money could be in your checking account instead (assuming you have a check book).

Maybe I've just lucked out with the recipes that I use of theirs. I don't remember exactly which of their cookbooks I use most often, as they were bought by my wife before we were married; I know them as "the blue one" and "the red one". =D

A lot of good, recent cookbooks list measurements by both volume and weight. One of my favorite lines is the Cook's Illustrated one - [www.amazon.com]

I use synergy... it works great. One keyboard and mouse shared between my win7 and Fedora workstations at work.

If you ever figure it out, let me know. I play drums.

I've helped convert two teachers with history degrees into *nix sysadmins at their own request. IT is definitely a field you could venture into. Depending on your specialties, you could do project management, be a manager, do technical writing, or do the technical stuff... it's really up to you. You just need to…

Just because it's not implied doesn't mean that it doesn't, either. ;-) Which reminds me of [www.xkcd.com]

For those who want to encrypt their own files but are intimidated by man pages:

I would keep Time Machine backing up your Dropbox folder. If for some reason your local Dropbox folder was ever out of sync with what's on their servers and that doesn't get backed up, you're out of luck.

At first glance, I almost thought you guys had convinced TheFu to write something up. Then I saw the 'chmod 777' and knew that I was mistaken. ;-)

If you're on a PC, you could also use MediaMonkey to rename files and create folder structures for your media based on ID3 tags. You can even define how the files/directories are named/structured, if you are so inclined.

Most browsers store the data unencrypted on your hard drive, just waiting for some malware to send it elsewhere.