How to to really irritate your successor sysadmin on a Solaris machine:

Set the machine's hostname not by changing /etc/nodename , but byhand-editing a ' hostname foobar ' into the /etc/init.d/network startup script.

Of course, you won't want to keep the machine current on patches either;otherwise, your successor might take a much longer time to find this,and have a much less exciting day.

Important caution: for the safest results, insure that you

I've recently had the experience of installing Ubuntu from one of their live CDs, and I now have tosay that this is a genius idea that should be widely imitated, and assoon as possible.

For me, the genius of a live CD installation is three-fold, and is onlytruly compelling when the machine has a network connection:

• I can Google around to figure out what I want to do next, understandany peculiar questions the installer is asking me, and so on.
• if anything goes