Mazes and Jungles

The other day, I was in one of my company's server rooms, and I was blown away. I had no idea what one really looked like...a jungle of blade servers, towers, CAT6 cables, etc. And it was freezing cold, but apparently that's the way it's supposed to be. If it gets hot, that's a bad, bad thing. Anyone who can manage a room full of these things has got to be mechanically minded, because I have no idea how they tell one thing from another. It's a maze that I have no desire to get lost in, that's for sure.

Tags: servers, cable, blade servers

Laptop Love

I am absolutely loving having what I would call a kick-ass laptop at home. Why? Because now I'm not chained to my desk. It's great being able to kick back on my sofa and surf the Web, or indulge in my latest obsession, playing World of Warcraft (a.k.a. WoW). It's a Dell laptop with Dell memory (2 GB), and an Intel Duel Core processor (I think). Of course, it became old the minute I bought it, but I think for what I need to do it'll last me a long, long time. The only thing I wish I'd done was gotten a larger hard drive than 80 GB. But I guess that's what external storage is for, right?