0.5. Because you can point fingers to Oracle when it crashes.

0.9. Because "No one was fired for choosing IBM".

So, moving a /var/log (not just /var) on separate device connected to distinct controller port is a big deal.

If you're running, say, mail server, you should separate /var/spool and /var/log and /var/db/mysql if any.

Partitioning, serious network card (think Broadcom) and big CPU caches are good things to begin with.

Even Oracle providing much more good advices, let alone some individual pros.

Good starting point: http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle10g.shtml

Update: Oh, yes, I understood. Newfags doesn't know what Oracle is. MySQL = RDBMS, I see. ^_^

You can use something as a storage of critical data, or as a runner for some garbage. Even at Microsoft they don't browse porn-sites from their servers.

First - the windows firewall which in no time involved into one button [ALLOW] because millions of stupid users were bombarded customer support.

Lets try to establish a privilege separation everywhere, so all users will work as administrators. Lets make code bloated and slow, only because it is a proper way of doing security.

btw, do you know, which is best security solution for Windows? The low-level full restore from a copy of just installed system form the second hard drive. Most of public PC providers are using this strategy.

So, the answer is fast, easy and idiot-prof re-flash procedure.

If you're more comfortable being isolated and feel a pleasure by doing difficult tasks - go further and do some programming or research. You will probably succeeded above average, because focusing, concentration and avoiding distractions is the most important things.

If on the other hand, you feel uncomfortable and sometimes have an urge to be with people (mostly girls) - then you should change yourself, develop a new habits and smooth communication skills. In this case just go out and learn by doing.

Many introverts are trying to avoid unpleasant practices by reading tons of book on subjects. That is a mistake. Information cannot replace actual experience. Knowledge of a theory is not a substitute for a personal realization.

If you have spent billions and billions of borrowed dollars and got nothing, but interest payments for your increased debt, it surely seems like you've made things worse.

Every educated software engineer know, that by respecting and following a fundamental programming methodologies, such as data-abstraction, modularity, encapsulation of details, and other basic techniques for managing the complexity of large systems, you will get maintainability and programmer-friendliness for free.

The problem is - most of in-house back-end developers and their public teachers doesn't have a even a basic engineering education.

People who have managed to understand the ideas on which the SICP book is based upon, let alone MIT graduates, never write such long but empty posts.

Now You should accept the facts, step out from it, relax and fall in love with something still unknown and unexplored, and doing it just for fun. Or just fro lulz in a newspeak. ^_^

Today Open source is just another name of business. The next evolutionary step toward literally nothing. So, accept it and relax and try to find something that you could love.

I'm, for example, going trough MIT and Berkeley online courses after 15 years of being UNIX sysadmin and system engineer, without any ambitions to shake the world, just fro lulz.

btw, your question itself contains a big bold cue - just fins a new love. ^_^

You may also try to search in a realms outside CS, but I wouldn't advice you to do so. After so many years spent, it is better to stay in the field.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

Seem like everyone on HN is either a teacher or a prophet nowadays. ^_^

HN is already in a third stage. ^_^

You'll be down-voted if you even try to say that Ubuntu, or Java or PHP (or any other target of a mass-hysteria) isn't cool or superior to anything.

Recently I got that just because I didn't agree that Ubuntu is the greatest and coolest Linux distro ever.

How many of my down-voters can build a distro from scratch or at least recompile PHP with all its modules and their dependencies, or, OK, know how to build a package from its sources? It is a rhetorical question. ^_^

So, everything eventually become reddit. It is just a relation to a number of unique visitors.

And when you have a lot of unique visitors then you'll have all those technology narcissists, who're promoting how cool they are in finding a security issues in an amateur code, or how they so clever in explaining obvious things or making easy things easier.

Everyone is a teacher nowadays. ^_^

There is a "standard" JRE. OpenJDK is already included in any distro.

You think we should include all up-to-date crap with all dependencies? No. It is not our problem.