Programs like fdisk , sfdisk , and even parted are really irritatingto deal with most of the time because they ask you too many nitpickingquestions. What I want is a partitioning program with a command oriented'shell' interface, with the core command being:

make N SIZE [TYPE]

This makes partition N be SIZE big (with the default units beingmegabytes), optionally making its type be TYPE (which can be in hex orin English). If N is 1 to 4, it is a primary

A recent Slashdot story pointed to this article onone company's more flexible approach to work hours. It hasthe line:

The goal at Best Buy is to judge performance on outputinstead of hours.

My immediate cynical reaction is that this is a marvelous theorybut doomed in most practices. The root problem is the sameseductive thought in management that leads to excessive overtime : 'if my employee is getting all this done in Nhours now, think how much more work she could do in N+Y hours