then i noticed that instead of having two gigabit ethernet ports on a box that could act as an excellent router they chose to put in TWO ports for display options and FIVE usb ports.

Seems to me like they only took the Mac Mini chassis, put in new disk options and slapped on Mac OS X Server.

Also how will Xsan work with Xgrid when there's no fibre option?

Seems like clustering these would be awesome but i would also like a distributed filesystem to go with that, please.

Very cool idea and i would get one without hesitation if it had two gigabit ethernet ports. For clustering though i would prefer to have a fibre option too, even if it would jack up the price significantly.

Mars B**hes! A-Yay Yay!

I've worked at Dell support, both client and enterprise, and they're not so bad. Yes, it is usually a bunch of 18 year olds straight out of high school but usually about 50-60% of the team are more than experienced enough to handle the job.

They make mistakes and stuff but they do their best.

The problem is usually Indian support, some of Dell, like the XPS in the past, was out sourced to India and this made Swedes so mad that Dell even allowed Sweden to have XPS support eventually.

I don't know if they'll have Alienware in Sweden, i don't even know if they'll be sold so much here.

First contact with Linux was Mandrake in a PC magazine i bought. Installed, clicked around, saw nothing special but was still very interested so i tried RedHat 7 when it came out in another issue of the same magazine.

Clicked around a bit, played konquest and then finally figured out how to change my window manager, i was now hooked. Then i hacked my ISP and got an angry letter home to my mom about 'netiquette'.

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.