Mail interface giving you shit huh ;)

Yeah... freaking windoze for mail.. ugh.

Do you say that at work? From the addy I see Military, and I know you guys have some Windows boxes somewhere, unless they were finally taken out. scares me when the Army uses Windows.... Or any other team who protects.

I couldn't agree with you more on that. I admin Beowulf clusters, so my exposure to windows is pretty much only for e-mail and the like. However, I am very vocal about the security (or lack thereof) of windows. Nice thing about being a contractor ;)

And lose my uptime???????? That bastard better hope he grabs the shadow file, at least that way I have one IP in the logs instead of 300 a second. Then I can retaliate. What's he going to do, say he was rooting me and I attacked him ?

Well, in our environment, data loss or a root compromise would be much worse than the cluster's head node being offline for a few minutes. I'd rather reboot a downed system than have to explain to the government folks why someone in Korea or another unfriendly has their data. Downtime is much easier to explain in many environments than a system compromise. And often the data which is on a system is far more important than maintaining a 99.999999999999% uptime.