++ for that.

As I said in the chatterbox, there's a line to be drawn between offtopic as in discussing Star Wars or the latest Britney Spears single, and offtopic as in discussing, in this case, server management related tasks. There are many things that while not Perl related themselves, are tangential to a task that involves Perl in some way or other. As such, and this was definitely such a question, they're most likely of interest and relevance to more than a handful of monks in their hacking time. So long as the amount of such posts does not water down the focus of the monastery, I believe they do a lot more good than harm. It's ok. Not tolerating trash doesn't mean we have to hit the other extreme of being totally uptight.

Makeshifts last the longest.