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Well, I just got laid off a couple weeks ago, so no liquor for me in the meantime. I'll probably celebrate with some Macallan when a new one is secured.
Actually, I do think that that question was too localized. 'What's the best way to optimize [this disk] on [this controller] with [this filesystem]?' I would give points for a mostly ( except for the "best" part) clear and detailed question, but it's unlikely that it would be of use to anyone else.
I am certainly guilty of snark, and was recently called out for sending a lmgtfy link. I'm most tempted to do that when I see a question that is easily pluggable into a search engine, and obviously no effort has been put in by the asker. It makes me think that they are using SF as a search engine to boost their reputation. I know that it's wrong to be sarcastic about it and remind myself to try to be helpful. In the vein of being helpful, at work, I often help people solve their problems and show them how I discovered the problem and came to an answer.
I wholeheartedly disagree that anything tagged "virtualbox" is not server and/or sysadmin-related. For one, VirtualBox does provide a service; it's not an application in-and-of itself. Secondly, it is far more likely to be of use to (and used by SysAds than traditional end-users. (Yes, some Power-Users are going to be playing with it.)
I'm actually against the "Desktop Professionals" inclusion. In my experience, DPs handle a localized problems (out at the leaves of the tree), and if the scope of the problem expands, they escalate to a SysAd. DPs that think beyond that scope are usually promoted to SysAds (and in every case, it is a promotion, not just a change in job description.) This has been the case in the Marine Corps, 3 enterprises, and two Software Dev SMBs (though I'm willing to acknowledge that it is not necessarily universal). In my mind, SU was THE place for Desktop Support Pros.
Agreed. That statement basically excludes MacOS Server. Additionally, Apache is still a webserver even if it's running on a machine that somebody sits at. Apache doesn't compile or execute any differently if it's on someone's workstation versus on a rack-mounted server.
I'm not a fan of the "Direct End-User Support" part either. I'm an Exchange Engineer, what should be a strictly back-end job, but I have to deal with the end-users all of the time...
Further, Apple doesn't provide a rack-mount server any longer. They have a guide to transitioning to the new choices (Mac Pro or Mac Mini), and are very explicit about the loads that you can expect to put on a Mini. How many grossly overpowered servers do you have in your datacenter? How many who barely trip over 10-15% (and that's usually at startup?!) Look at your LDAP or Web Servers... Now take a SMB, and the cost restraints that they have. I'm the first to say that server hardware has it's place (HP Proliant certified, after all), but the Mini fills a need as well.
