So Ballmer is now getting an effective payoff for having been so crappy for so long by Nadella simply not being Ballmer and the stock inflating based on Ballmer leaving. That hardly seems like a good compensation scheme.

@Dashrender that doesn't do much. People work their local daylight regardless of the time. There is no good answer. The new world is simply one where sleep must be enforced.

@Reid-Cooper probably not but it might be interesting. I use phpMyAdmin so rarely. I tend to work from the MySQL CLI client nearly all of the time.

I've been in Linux Administration since the late 1990s and I've never seen a shop that compiled their own kernel. That would seriously be an odd and not business-oriented Linux admin task. Only the most special of cases would someone do that. I can't fathom any enterprise shop allowing something like that. Totally goes against all best practices and normal management techniques.

@Bill-Kindle said:

By harder I hope they mean that it will be harder to boot camp these tests.

The description makes it sound that way, at least.

It's just an excuse to party - it includes everyone who works in IT 🙂

Very true. It is already quite amazing that Blackberry still exists at all.

This is what I remembered...

http://www.nextpowerup.com/news/5595/microsoft-to-discontinue-windows-rt.html

CEPH certainly promises to be pretty important. Is anyone in the SMB market using it yet?

That sounds right. They make two completely different products.

@Carnival-Boy Oh that makes sense.