Power consumption, spare parts, administrating your infra-structure as a whole, dealing with malfunctions, supporting several operating systems, the ease of administration virtualisation technology has brought...Recycling older hardware is a waste of electricity, time and money.

I also lived in Africa for years, and my thoughts are either this will rot in customs until someone higher up has his hands greased, or will be sold to the Russian mob or something similar at sales prices.

We have had OpenSuse servers and whilst they are much more convenient to install Debian seems to be more manageable on the long run. Debian is also more of widespread use, and it is far easier to find material about more obscure administration.

Unix for 80286 please.

Why should I waste time reading a fucking slashadvertisement? Opening up this piece of junk of post is enough for me. I recently went in a trip, my gf by accident deleted ALL of our photos at the middle of the trip, and I only said, relax, just take the card out, and we bought another the very same day. First day returning from the trip, I recovered all of the photos and videos. Is this fucking news, or just common sense?

Who doesnt want to work on the next starwars? Is that a joke? I dont even want to hear about a new startwars movie anywhere!

We fucking dont care about US law. I am European. But then Maldives is also known as Falklands, from one country that bends over to the US.

Fedora is supposed to be a filed testing distro for RH and Ubuntu drinks from Debian unstable. You want something more serious and stable, either go to Debian stable or RedHat enterprise. There is no point in discussing the obvious, they are not exactly hiding the origins and audience of those distros.

mod up this anon-my team picked up the system administration duties from another team, and everything was very fucked up, just to be nice. The priorities of the other team was just churning things to show the management and doing their little experiments on the side. Two years later, the stability of the service has been rock solid, however often in a while we still have to clean their rubbish when we point our guns to more obscure services.

Microsoft has no whatsoever interest to contribute to a model that favours a business continuity plan, and quite by the contrary, has they have a monopolist position they have all the interest of breaking such a model to forcing all the believers to upgrade to new and shiniest toy. Despite this, they have lost the battle with Google, and all their twists and tales to promote bing have been pathetic, at least.

Obvious logic and several news like this one. http://boingboing.net/2008/02/...

To just notice this a dumb history to only streamline the data inspection of gadgets?

Correction, they are not kiliing the airline industry, they are killing the tourism industry. They wont get me anywhere near USA soon.

You are stupid. This is not about seeing the device is built for the purpose, is about having them ready for snooping around.

Bullshit. It got nothing to do with skill, but standards of living. A foreign is willing to accept a work working for ten times less the going rate, where an American, or an European will give show you the middle finger. Also, if you dont want them "to leave after a year", grow some common sense and stop hiring kids with the salary of janitors. You seem like a douchebag or someone that somehow envies IT workers.