I agree, the wattage must be measured. As another example, I measured 80W idle and 160 W on full load on a 12 core Opteron server.

This server does not have a 3D video card. I guess you also achieved full load on a 3D card too, and that explains the large difference between the wattage in idle and full load in your case.

I mean "...I have never seen mentioned..."

AMD already has FMA3. They also published great results. Of course nobody read it, at least I have seen mentioned it in the usual generic benchmark articles people like to refer (which does not use FMA3).

I recently installed Windows 7 on two machines. It took 5 hours on both machines to download, setup all patches. It restarted itself about 15 times. The Windows update process is ridiculous.

AFAIK In Europe the role of the jury is much smaller. If there is a jury at all, it is only a few people, and they alone do not decide about anything, they work together with the judge.

Yes. Since I have learned touch typing, I use CAPS LOCK extensively. Like in the previous sentence. If I have to type more than two (or one?) upper case characters I always use it.

It was indeed one of the most difficult key to learn, maybe because if I accidentally hit another key, the usual Backspace does not correct it. But it is well worth to learn it. Otherwise I had to switch between LEFT SHIFT and RIGHT SHIFT after almost every character, which drives me crazy. I am not sure, but I assume, that those who hate CAPS LOCK never really learned touch typing well, if at all.

It is by no accident that there was a SHIFT LOCK key on every typewriter (and that was less useful than CAPS lock), which was mostly used by professional typists.

You can use a Kinesis Advantage keyboard. First, important keys are pressed with the thumb, not the right fingers (Enter, Ctrl, Backspace). Second, the keyboard is programmable, so you can map all problematic keys to the left side and type them together with AltGr (right ALT). I am already using this method, because our national characters take the place of almost every symbol characters, which are important for coding. It is working well.

I understand, too high temperature is one thing, but crashing is really bad.

The new models, which have onboard IPMI controller, send you an email if a sensor value is unusual. At least I always get a notification email when I open the case, telling me just that: somebody opened the case. I had no problem with temperature even when I run a burn-in utility.

You have not provided any specific information, neither about the hardware, not about which is the part that is overheating. In general, at least in the 1U form factor, I cannot see any magic solution for cooling. Supermicro adds air shrouds to direct the airflow and they are using brutal fans. The front and back sides are as open, heatsinks are as large as possible. That is all they - or any other manufacturer - can do. Heat generation depends on the processors, chipset and drives.

Your comment reminded me how great that there is Supermicro, who let me completely build even the most advanced x86 server if I want so.

You mixed up things. Using your ISP mail server is indeed better than sending directly from your dynamic IP address at home or in a small office.

But that is all, in every other situations, practically any solution is better than sending through poorly maintained ISP mail servers.

And no, sending through your ISP mail server does not break SPF at all, it is the same situation as somebody outsourcing his mail servers. Actually there is nothing unusual in that. See the "include" mechanism of SPF for such cases.