Not to mention you have to do business with a company that is well known for fucking over its customers.

Lots of my coworkers at Salesforce.com use standing desks. One example that comes to mind is someone who's had long term back problems. It's made a massive difference for him. Most people here can get them with manager approval and many could get them anyway.

We did end up burying one when we finally stopped supporting them.

As someone who worked with the damn things way more than I care to admit, yes, you're 100% right.

Can't say that I did. Lol. Suppose I shouldn't be surprised though.

Dropped and broke a $40k USD Symantec Gateway Security Appliance

Back in high school I had a file server whose case was a cardboard box. Bob was a pretty great file server.

But why do I keep having to remove line cards from an MLX-16 or PCIe cards... You're right in some environments, but not all. And I'm not including anything as small as you're implying.

Oil works great until you have to remove something...

My main site is 492KB for the front page and all of it's content, including images. Any loads other than the first are around 42KB due to browser based caching.

I've used Zabbix at work and currently use it at home. Works great. -Paul

I was writing code while waiting for trick-or-treaters... :-/ I've realized out sad that is :(