DISQUS

You're not exactly qualifying what "going nuts" means, and you're not explaining how exactly this "fix" of yours actually fixes anything. All you've done is suggest to the internet that people can solve vaguely defined problems by pulling daemons out of Apple's boot process and the normal running of the OS.

I've personally run zeroconf/rendezvous/bonjour on networks of many thousands of machines, and it's never been an issue. What you may be seeing is a misconfiguration elsewhere that has mdnsresponder behaving poorly.

And the fellow complaining about syslogd also going crazy: consider that randomly fiddling with daemons might just cause another daemon (do you know how many of Apple's daemons actually use mdns?), like, say, Apache, to complain loudly (yes, I am aware apache has its own log files).

Simply using the terms "going nuts" and "going crazy" to describe the justification for people randomly coming across this page on the internet and issuing commands as the superuser. I personally think you're instructing people here to play with fire, and it's irresponsible.

That last bit really makes me curious:

We need to work extra hard for those those who are leaving and pay special attention to those left behind.

exactly how hard does HR work, in general, on the psychological well-being of its workforce? It's been my understanding over the years that there isn't even a concept of how "healthy" a workforce is; rather, the question is one of adherence, team-playership, and so on.

I'd love to see extra attention paid to those who don't get laid off, but I've yet to see it actually happen. Maybe this time around the hit is hard enough that it will shake some of the lint out of the heads of these people. Hopefully it doesn't take people losing it in the workplace (I suspect this will happen in the next 18 mos or so).

What makes me sad is I've seen so many ads like this, and been through at least two positions that were advertised like this, but when it actually came down to the people running the deal (HR...), it was the same old rotten thing.

In fact, the three most satisfying teams I've ever worked on, those same three teams that were also the most skilled i've ever worked on, were all destroyed in the aftermath of administrative f-ups, largely arbitrated (perpetrated...?) by HR.

Incompetent, ignorant or scared management makes a decision, and it trickles down through these distorted filters, and when it finally hits the employees, it's turned into malice or at best a cold indifference because it's "just business."

Good luck with that one, Frank. You're one of the good guys.

I may be the only person to say this, but think of it this way. The entire market is on sale right now. I bought AAPL for $12 in 2002. 52-week high is $202. Do the math. The only thing that should prevent you from pouring as much as you can into your 401k, especially if your employer is matching (free money, folks, there is no reason to avoid free money, ever), is the notion that the entire world economy will collapse and the stock market will be worthless.

Sure, it happened to the Romans, but I'm not certain there's a Mehmet II knocking at our door just yet.

Right now might not be a good time to invest in the traditional "stable" stocks (stocks with a beta of 1), but it might be a good idea instead to invest in stocks you know will a) not be controlled by the government and b) have inherent value that is presently devalued. An example might be AAPL, of course – they're not going anywhere in the ten year timeframe, but retail's going to hurt this christmas – or TIF for the same reason. Consider also some of the more esoteric mutual funds like FOSFX. Funds that deliberately invest in devalued, risky markets.

But that's just sound financial advice. Invest in, say 50% "reliable" stocks, 25% "growth" stocks, and anywhere from 10-25% "risky" stocks that may drop to zero, or may quadruple in value.

But whatever you do, don't drop out of the market because that is the only way to ensure somebody like me will come along and buy up your stock and cement your loss. When you do get back in the market (and you will), and the prices are "normal" again, you've lost that 40% or more that the stock rose.

Hint: limit orders.

I think this group (the thumpers) are right up there with a group I don't have a name for – they're the folks that, no matter the situation, must stop everything to ascertain who is to blame so that they may wag a finger (or, usually, worse).

Those guys, to use your words, have no place on my team. So frequently, when something has gone wrong, the first priority is to correct the problem, and not to figure out who to behead. It's counter productive and it just puffs up the person looking for the "culprit" (like your thumpers) and inevitably hurts the team, as well, for creating an atmosphere of certain folks being better than certain other folks.

I don't. I'm 6'5", and when I take a plane trip (the most I've flown in a year is about 110k miles), I really hate it when the people in front of me do. I have this irrational hope that if I don't recline my seat, more people will keep theirs upright. Of course they don't. I've actually had a guy bodily smack his seat to get it to "go back further" – when it was resting firmly on my knees. The only alternative to this is flying first class, which is typically pretty expensive.

I can't seem to find a way to resize the box. I've got enough stuff on the calendar that I have to scroll to see what's going on. It would be very convenient if I could just lengthen it. Unfortunately clicking on the corner doesn't seem to work.