This is what I do too. Homebrew hardware running Debian, with 4 drives in a RAID5 configuration running EXT3, shared over the gigabit network using Samba. Bottleneck is the laptop hard drive. It works great, and I can afford to have a single drive fail with no data loss. I mainly use it to back up hard drives and to store media files (movies and music.) The server also doubles as the network's router, but that's irrelevant to this discussion.

Sounds like a valid durability test for a SD card. I'd be willing to bet that it would survive longer in the pan than the bird would.

Audit trails are automatically generated, and can often be found on logs and cable trays.

Just wait 'til you get out into the real world. There are tons of them out here! (And not in the weigh-a-ton sense that many Engineering school women fit.)

My servers and workstations increment through the alphabet.
Addled
Burnout
Clueless
Dimension
Eptitude...
Last octet of the static IP is based on the position in the alphabet of each hostname and the NIC number in the system (Addled = .10, Burnout = .20 and .21 etc) regardless of which subnet that NIC resides on. When a system is retired, so is the name. Using this method I can get a pretty good idea of how old a system is in relation to the others. This scheme only works in a very small environment.
My suggestion is thus:
1-25 workstations: be creative. Use names that you can remember.
25-100 workstations: create groups of rooms or departments based on themes, and be creative within the themes. Tag hostnames on cases.
100+ workstations: use an asset-tag type scheme, possibly including location (campus-level, not cube-level) information that won't change, and perhaps user. Tag hostnames on cases. Reimage and rename systems when repurposing. Use a database to track specifics of the systems.

Remember, different peoples' views of the important aspects of driving differ. One might say it's most important to signal properly while another might say it's more important to maintain a safe speed. I'm sure everyone can agree that staying out of accidents is at the top of the list, but below that things get a little fuzzy, and everyone can find lots of drivers who don't signal lane changes or speed or cut people off (and often all of the above and more.) Everyone will focus on what they view as important and rate themselves based on that.

Fixed that for you.

No, you're not. Hawkeye hates the war, but when he's operating he's operating. Yes he gripes while doing it, but he's one of the best doctors in the Army. The 4077 had the best record of any MASH unit and Hawkeye was the best doctor they had, as confirmed by numerous people numerous times.

Who is the Dentist?

This is what I have done using Ghost. There was an option to take a bit-for-bit copy of the drive. It didn't always work, but it would sometimes let you make a backup of the bad drive and restore it onto a good one, and then take a proper ghost image if necessary and recover your files. Any files which were corrupted on the original would still be corrupted, but anything else on the drive was suddenly readable and writable, meaning you can not only recover your data but even repair Windows if necessary and keep using the same drive image so there was typically no need to completely rebuild the system.

Tacos schmacos. Try the water.

This appears to be a Caterpillar 789.
If so, It has a 1800hp 69 litre 16 cylinder V-engine.
112 Tons empty, with a load capacity of 180 Tons
Looks like they sell for about 2.25 million USD.

"It lost $153 million during its 2008 fiscal year and its current bankruptcy filing lists $390 million in assets along with nearly $527 million in liabilities.
As part of its proposed purchase of SGI, Rackable has agreed to take on an undisclosed portion of those liabilities. But there's a chance Rackable may not wind up acquiring the company."

The name alone could be worth $25 million if managed properly, but that $527 mil debt really bumps the actual cost of the property significantly. Also with a cashflow that seriously negative, they'd better have some really quick plans to turn this operation around. I would expect to see a lot more marketing for SGI systems if this goes through, probably within months.

25 mil may be peanuts for a company like this, but...

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12049610

...Suddenly not peanuts anymore.

I'm seeing "chick magnet"
picture of a chick (baby duck, not cute girl)
+ picture of a stereotypical horseshoe magnet

...although you COULD go for the cute girl version too. I think someone mentioned mudflaps with the nude silhouette.