Killer app for sysadmin types

VMWare server. I’ve been using Workstation for a while to test things – I ‘discovered’ it at a Novell ATT class more than a couple years ago – but the Server product is wonderful. I’m setting up a Win2003 server as a host that will run an NT4 server (legacy domain), at least one NetWare 6.5 server and will have horsepower left over for other things, although the other things will also run as virtual machines – I want to keep the host OS as clean as possible. I no longer have to worry about drivers for Netware, etc. and as I get more Linux literate, swapping to RH or Suse as a host OS might be a possibility.

The Maronites

See bullet #1 under my ‘wish for a pony’ post below – the NYT reports:

In an event that would have been unthinkable a few months ago, in this country where politics is locked into religious lines, the Maronite Catholic patriarch — the spiritual leader of the most pro-Western populace — convened a meeting this week of religious leaders of other communities, Shiite and Sunni Muslims and several varieties of Christians, resulting in a statement of solidarity and photographs in Wednesday’s newspapers. Their joint statement, condemning the Israeli “aggression,” hailed “the resistance, mainly led by Hezbollah, which represents one of the sections of society.”

Looks like that plan to turn the Lebanese population against Hezbollah through the indiscriminate use of air power is working not so well. Is Preznit Pendejo’s stupidity contagious?