We did look at it, or specifically SmartOS but ran into an issue with support for our Athlon based hardware.

I don't do nearly as much sysadmin anymore so I don't really get a say. The guys seem happier with their Linux o' the month.

...a special transatlantic flight to get him out of the country

Yep. ZFS was killer. We had a couple boxes that we managed the OS but a customer ran a couple applications on. I never told but I automated hourly ZFS snapshots. Twice I got panicked phone calls "We damaged a bunch of records in the database!". Bump them off line, zfs restore from snapshot, restart their services,…

Christ I miss having our servers running on Solaris. Something just doesn't seem right about the network, write up a DTrace script and boom you've got all the info you could ever want. What process had what port open, what process made what system call to send data over the wire, log all system calls involving sending…

Ostertag used to try the same line on the girls at KU.

And just think, there is a sizable number of people here in the States that insist the EPA should be disbanded and environmental issues are nothing but a bunch of lies spread by the left so they can hand this country over to the UN.

You put an accelerometer in the helmets, preferably on a strap or some other point that is in close contact with the player's skull. The player takes a big hit and is slow getting up when he gets to the sidelines you get the data from the accelerometer. If the guy's head experienced anything above some threshold, he's…

Punt Keselowski out of the chase. Let his mechanics stew on the fact that all their hard work for the entire year went to waste because their driver's actions. I wouldn't be surprised if Brad turned up in a ditch along some lonesome stretch of Carolina backroad with a wrench shaped hole in the back of his skull.

That…

Forget the ribs and forget OK Joe's... lets all get down to Big T's for some burnt ends.

Could be worse. Last name could be Sheriffsbadge.

I wonder if Rousch will be able to get the new Mustang close to the Z/28.

Bodily fluids? Africa? I'll take "Oh-hell-no" for $200 Alex.

Is that a barf bucket for the defendant, you know, in case the verdict doesn't go their way?

Greenberg was talking about this earlier. Something along the lines of in the South African court system, reading the verdict(s) in a case like this can literally take days.

Now that he's been cleared of the most serious charges, he's got a little spring back in his step.

Have the rules of what constitutes a "racing incident" changed? I thought the rule of thumb used to be an overtaking car with the inside line needed to have a front wheel at least even with the driver of the outside car before he could lay claim to a corner. Considering Rosberg was never anywhere close to that…

Oh I agree that Ward's actions were incredibly stupid, and Stewart had no idea the kid was going to run at him. I just think Tony put himself higher up on the track and closer than necessary to Ward. Hell even if he never saw Ward why did he pick a line so close to a stopped car? If he had taken a safer, lower line…

Regardless of if he was at fault it is unthinkable that Tony was going to race today. Contrary to a what a lot of the rather hostile comments here say, he is not without fault in the death of another human being. I can't believe that in the brief time since the accident Tony gave any thought to getting in the car.…

Thanks Stephen A. for chiming in.

Yes the kid fucked up. Seriously fucked up by trying to confront someone in a moving car on a race track. Some people are saying that Tony might not have ever seen that Ward was out of the car. I don't believe that was the case, but it is within the realm of possibilities.

Given Tony's amount of experience he should have expected the other driver might react. Knowing that, if he was leaving emotion completely out of the equation he would have taken a line as far away from Ward's car as he possibly could.

It's a shitty situation all around. I feel terrible for Ward's friends and family…