You can only know a subject well by living and working with it. Indeed, I live with the technology I write about. While that usually works to my advantage, there are days like yesterday when the technology rears back and bites me.
You can only know a subject well by living and working with it. Indeed, I live with the technology I write about. While that usually works to my advantage, there are days like yesterday when the technology rears back and bites me.
It started when some of my older servers showed signs that they weren’t long for this world. There’s nothing like starting your day off with the hard drive failing on not one, but two servers. My use of RAID drives saved me from disaster, but it was clear that my 1995 vintage Pentium boxes were near the end of their useful lives.
So I went out and got a pair of new HP tc2110 servers with 1.7GHz Pentium 4s and half a gigabyte of RAM to replace my pair of doddering NEC boxes with their 120MHz Pentiums and 64MB of RAM.
The funny thing about upgrading was that those old boxes were just fine for file, print/Web serving, and e-mail for years, but HP considers the tc2110 ideal for small businesses “making their first network infrastructure investment.”
Oh, please. It’s not just HP, all the hardware vendors say things like that. The truth of the matter is that if I wasn’t in the business of peeking over the leading edge of technology and reporting what I find, I would have just dug up some old drives and popped them into my…
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