How times change

I just picked up the September issue of Sys Admin (the journal for UNIX and Linux system administrators), and right there on the cover is an article titled, “Using LSD to Sync a Solaris Environment.”  I’m old enough to remember when that acronym (LSD) didn’t mean LDAP Software Distribution, it meant lysergic acid diethylamide (AKA Acid), one of the major drugs making up the hallucinogen class.  Given the old context, I wondered how it was going to be possible to synchronize servers while tripping, considering that most people I encountered who were doing that couldn’t sit still for 60 seconds, let alone synchronize a server.