This is a direct continuation of If I didn't hate you, I might feel pity, as in “picks up on the next paragraph,” so you may want to go read that if you haven't.
This is turning into a saga worthy of Star Wars. Or maybe Office Space.
$FORMER_EMPLOYER's next step was to lay off a bunch [...]
So, I got an email from one of my favorite developers (it's a four-way tie, and if you're one of them and actually reading this, you're probably included) at $FORMER_EMPLOYER stating, in the subject alone, that the New Sysadmin had just resigned.
Let me recap here, for those who don't know the whole story. These people [...]
I had a refreshing reminder of why, no matter how frequently I get pissed off by the dumb-ass, late-80s shit forced upon me by HP-UX (Were you aware that until the very-most-recent minor version you still had to RECOMPILE THE KERNEL and reboot if you wanted to change SysV IPC settings? Well, okay, just relink, [...]