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Server upgrade

Well my trusty server has been having a bit of a harsh time recently - the disks keep dropping offline (both of them - even though they are different channels). Given that I am keen on network security, the fact that it only has one PCI slot was also an issue.
However the fact that [...]

BIOS defaults

Dear Dell (and other manufacturers),
If I buy a PC from you (such as a PowerEdge 2950). I’d really appreciate it if you didn’t:

turn virtualisation support off in the BIOS
or removed it completely pending a BIOS upgrade (HP)
turn off power management in the BIOS
turn off snoop filtering (as this will have [...]

Rip off merchants

PC world that is.
I’m just ordering some network cables as we are almost out at work and need some more. I’m also putting in a “test DMZ” as we have really vicious firewall rules (as they should be) to our main DMZ. We’d like to slacken these rules to test boxes, whilst still [...]