Could be fragmentation. How full is the drive?

Definitely image now. Get to a recoverable state before looking at anything else.

I like the three planning points idea. Write out your plan now. Start thinking about how to get to point A. Does that require a new cert? Get working on that cert. Does it require learning a new skill, get working on that skill. It will help to keep you from flapping between ideas that might prevent you from achieving a short term goal.

Excellent, that would be a really nice prize.

@Carnival-Boy said:

Ashamed of that My Little Pony game you bought?

No one is ashamed if My Little Pony.

Congrats and good luck. Hope that we keep seeing you around here. We are a fun bunch (of mangoes, like bananas.)

In my experience, fewer longer days are better than more, shorter days. You get way more free time in a clump to do things, even if that just means relaxing.

A resident Bronie magically appears.

Is ServerMonkey going to send someone in to replace you here? It will be hard for them to maintain a presence on par with what you have been providing.

According to the Register, Russian hackers have been exploiting Sandworm.

The chat is completely useless at this point.

Hopefully they get someone to come in and be active. Since they are not active "over there" any longer, it is that much better of an opportunity to be busy here!

@ajstringham that's a pretty big compliment! Thanks.

Hard to go wrong with DBAN. For testing them, just getting them onto a machine with SMART tools and doing something basic like building a filesystem on it should be enough.

This one just went up on SW, thought that I would link it here since there are a number of Dallas people in this forum.

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/596845-looking-for-level-ii-help-desk-technician

eWeek covers the latest on what is coming in Firefox 34 which we can be expecting to be available pretty soon. Likely we will have this update in late November.

Has anyone played with the relatively new Deepin Linux distribution? It looks really cool but have not had a chance to play with it anywhere yet.

A lot of eyes on this thread, definitely the hot topic of the day. I think that it is a good discussion. A lot of good points coming out for anyone considering and thinking about job opportunities. What makes a good value decision when looking at a job? What factors are influencing you to take or not take important risks? How do ambitious people approach these decisions?

The Debian Project has announced the availability of their latest release, Debian 7.7.

Has anyone played with Byobu? Just discovered it this morning and it looks pretty interesting.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Metrics by Andre Arko Wednesday, Oct. 22nd at 9AM PST. Looks to be interesting. Andre is from teh Bundler team.