Comments on: Name your favourite server http://www.bladewatch.com/2007/03/20/name-your-favourite-server/ Tracking servers and enterprise technology. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:11:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ST2 http://www.bladewatch.com/2007/03/20/name-your-favourite-server/#comment-544 ST2 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:46:50 +0000 http://www.bladewatch.com/2007/03/20/name-your-favourite-server/#comment-544 Favorite Server...LONxxxOFACxx series of servers - why, the name says it all and they application was just as good. Server that gave me the most trouble was the one that I never touched, all I did was walking into an IT room at one of Notts County Council sites to patch a port to a switch and low and behold all Novell 3.11 servers in the room abended. Fingers were pointed and it took ages to explain even with the event logs that the temperature had exceed (not bad for a dozen early proliant servers in a room with no air con, where if you swung a cat around by its tail it may well have a sore head) Slight expansion... Favorite Hardware Vendors in order of preference • Servers & Desktops : HP, IBM, Dell • Laptops : Toshiba, HP, Dell • Printers InkJet : Epson • Dot Matrix : Epson • Laser : HP • Storage : NetApp Outright favorite hardware is my Sinclair Spectrum 48K with Kempston Joystick Interface with a Competition Pro 5000 Joystick :) - retro me up! Favorite Server…LONxxxOFACxx series of servers – why, the name says it all and they application was just as good.

Server that gave me the most trouble was the one that I never touched, all I did was walking into an IT room at one of Notts County Council sites to patch a port to a switch and low and behold all Novell 3.11 servers in the room abended. Fingers were pointed and it took ages to explain even with the event logs that the temperature had exceed (not bad for a dozen early proliant servers in a room with no air con, where if you swung a cat around by its tail it may well have a sore head)

Slight expansion…

Favorite Hardware Vendors in order of preference

• Servers & Desktops : HP, IBM, Dell
• Laptops : Toshiba, HP, Dell
• Printers InkJet : Epson
• Dot Matrix : Epson
• Laser : HP
• Storage : NetApp

Outright favorite hardware is my Sinclair Spectrum 48K with Kempston Joystick Interface with a Competition Pro 5000 Joystick :) – retro me up!

]]> By: martin http://www.bladewatch.com/2007/03/20/name-your-favourite-server/#comment-543 martin Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:47:40 +0000 http://www.bladewatch.com/2007/03/20/name-your-favourite-server/#comment-543 Just remembered, a server possibly least favourable was a compaq prosignia 300 used by one of the application teams, I had to service pack it and security patch it, it had a pentium 90 running windows nt4 and took forever... Just remembered, a server possibly least favourable was a compaq prosignia 300 used by one of the application teams, I had to service pack it and security patch it, it had a pentium 90 running windows nt4 and took forever…

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