is to swap the memory modules to find out which is causing the problem, if not motherboard. Also i don't see how memory tests running inside an OS can be effective, i'd much rather boot off of a smaller system on a DVD, USB-stick or floppy to run a memory test. Dell servers have those Dell Diagnostics CDs that are very small in memory footprint just in order to run diagnostics on memory. But even they're not perfect so you often have to take memory out and see if you can reproduce errors.

...that this article should come up the day after they implemented a policy of turning all desktop equipment off at my workplace, a global, american owned callcentre business.

I've been turning my computer off for years when i end for the day, i don't find it a strain. Though so far they've been starting the computers at night somehow, WOL or something, so it hasn't had much effect and i never have to sit through POST and the OS boot.

You're comparing a blogging software with a full featured CMS?

If you're already using UNIX file servers then i wouldn't force clients to encrypt. I would simply enforce the use of VPNs and file servers for sensitive information and sharing, while using GEOM ELI to have transparent disk encryption on the UNIX file servers.