Mod parent up, please.

The hell if I will touch anything in the server room if I cannot replace a faulty CPU by myself in less than 5 minutes. I'm talking IBM BladeCenter, mostly, but I've had to work with HP and DELL as well.
Would this mean, for example, that if I purchased a blade with two CPU sockets, but only had the need (or budget) for a single CPU at the moment, I'd have to return my production server to the manufacturer a year later, just to add another CPU? Or would they send me a qualified technician in the hour of need, to solder a new CPU to the motherboard, and I'd just pay for the extra CPU (as usually)? Naw... this is a load of crap.

I had a 60GB Mushkin Chronos in my MySQL server. It died in 13 days. I do not know for certain what actually killed (it's a low profile server, with only about 3.600/1.500 select/insert statements an hour), but I received a replacement disk within hours, swapped them out, and the replacement snuffed the dust in just under 18 days. I was unable to read or write to them. They just went out, like someone flicked a switch.
That's when I decided to stick with the regular spindle disks for my database server...

I bought two of those 60GB disks at the same time; used the other one as the OS disk for my workstation. It's still running good, almost two years later. I recently purchased a 120GB Mushkin Chronos Deluxe and replaced my 60GB disk (which currently only holds my development projects and few, select games).

Mod parent insightful, please.

I thought that would be for the flavour? If that would be the case, I certainly hope they won't do it on Uranus as well...

So, in a nutshell, it's a brick with the Windows logo on it. Impressive!

Thank you, sir! This would never have occurred to me if you hadn't brought it up. Now I better understand why my parents would never give me a horse as a child; it wouldn't fit in the cage with the mice, and it would splash if I accidentally dropped it.

Mod parent up. This is exactly why I prefer to keep my position as "sysadmin", rather than a "consultant".

FB phone? That would sure as hell no longer be a "smartphone".

Turns out the dog wasn't rabid, so they went on with their plans of drilling into the supervolcano in order to see whether it is active.

Hope these hackers can turn the source code into something useful.

And who exactly, thought it'd be a good idea to let children play with tiny magnets in the first place? The manufacturer?

I won't buy your replicas unless they come with preinstalled liquid coolers!

Why, yes, of course! All software should be modular by default.

Not to be an utter arse, I agree with you to an extent. I'm just having some troubles comparing Firefox to the Linux kernel. Oranges to orange trees, if you like.

Oh, where are the mod points when the voice of insight chimes in?

Well, they certainly had a blast!