[quote user="KrakenLover"]Rep:  Yeah, we keep getting a lot of requests for it, so we decided to release a new version that works for companies not based in the U.S.A.  I should be making a lot off of those commissions pretty quick; you did a really great job on that US version.[/quote]  Erm.. they're making ...

[quote user="joe.edwards"]A machine greeted me and asked me to please hold for the next available representative. I wonder how that's working out for them.[/quote]  This practise is being stamped out in UK - a machine is wardialing and then connecting an answered call to any free salesdroid in the pool, the intention being ...

[quote user="pjt33"]Pick up, say "Hang on a minute", and then leave your phone in a quiet place until they hang up? Or do you get charged for incoming calls?[/quote]  I tend to do that with my home phone (or keep stringing them along). After a bit I get added to the "don't bother with this time-wasting ...

[quote user="gilhad"] "We can set-up it in 5 days, our suplier can deliver such amounth of servers in 2 months, so HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE YOU TO  GET PURCHASE ORDER APPROVED to finish this operation?"[/quote]  +1. Trying to make people understand it's dependent upon actions they themselves have responsibility for ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"]cron only sends out mail when there's output. So you can just add >/dev/null 2>&1 to the end of all of your cron entries and they won't send email.[/quote][quote user="PJH"]Or you could simply tell cron to simply stop sending the mail in the first place if you're not interested ...

[quote user="OldCrow"]Oops. Meant to say that /run was mounted as tmpfs. Not /var. That would indeed be crazy.[/quote]  *phew*[quote user="OldCrow"]I have contemplated moving /var/log to tmpfs, but decided that it would defeat the purpose of having logs in the first place. Then again, some logs you don't need to ...

[quote user="JBert"] That's the thing: the proxy automatically dumps the whole thing to a backed-up network drive to let the IT staff make a new (incremental / full) backup every night, so at least in theory I should be able to build our sources from 5-6 years ago completely cut off from the Internet. Granted, I haven't been ...

[quote user="OldCrow"]Personally, I put into tmpfs the /var partition.[/quote]  The WHAT? You mount /var as a temporary filesystem? What the hell do you use /var for - or rather, what don't you use it for? I hope I've misunderstood you and /var isn't tmpfs.

Spectate Ben?

I don't understand it either. And clearly from this thread, I'm not the only one. TRWTF is a confusing WTF that becomes a WTF itself?