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Qualification of that statement please? Also, almost every data recovery firms advice is to stop using the machine when you discover the file is missing, so installing software to the affected device seems like a terrible idea.

"There's seldom a good technological solution to a behavioural problem" Also, its the parents that don't educate their kids properly that would also not check the phone has that tech enabled...

Yes. if you can afford it, do it. Having a solid backbone just makes everything easier.

...or turn it into a water feature

err, why is that like that? I'm so confused...

Currently...

See, I find myself quite often faced with some piece of software I've never seen before, and told to fix some problem; when I've never seen it working. Anyone who complains about me taking some time in that situation faces my wrath. They normally only do it once...

NOO, not the knove!

Guys..GUYS. Sit down, I've got this. ...makes everything better

aye, or maybe a little branded canvas bag?

Squishy stress PCs? for when you just wanna punch your network in it's stupid face... What about useful little bits and bobs too - one of our HP racks came with a cage nut removal tool. I'd buy 50 of them to stop me trashing my fingers everytime I had to touch a rack < /giggidy >

TBH I almost completely lost an 8 host vm cluster of 147 VMs at the start of this week. @Ric_ managed to shut down a machine at a production datacentre instead of the DR one. @Beard took down the phone lines of an office that exclusively did phone support. at midday. And @SimonD managed to delete a worldwide replication filesystem of almost 2TB and over a million files. ...trust me, you're not that bad.

I'd say fibre would probably be best for this - no need for a fibre switch if the SAN has enough ports. However if you're thinking iSCSI you'll definitely need more ports. 4GB to split between storage, networking and machine failover is not gonna be great. at all.

And how're you gonna link them together?

You've just spent hundreds of pounds on a flash, right before Christmas. I think we all know the answer to this...

or you could put them all on physical media then put them all in a microwave? they'll sound much better that way.

http://span-trade.co.uk/images/uploads/KH.jpg ten points if you don't tell people on the other side of the wall what you're doing first...

I *think* there's an option in seesmic to do this...but I couldn't tell you for sure....

Make the teacher wear this: http://a.tgcdn.net/images/products/zoom/0a5b_personal_soundtrack_shirt.jpg ThinkGeek :: Personal Soundtrack Shirt

You mean the newest tweets are always at the top of the screen when in app, and you scroll down to reveal older ones?

Yeah, ESXi is baremetal and the licensing works per VM as you said. Of course, if you do go the ESXi route you can always just install the FOG appliance you can download from VMware too - very little linux ability needed

Yeah, I'd echo that. running a server as a server and hosting vms won't get you the best from the hardware. ESXi and vm everything, it'll run much better than virtualbox. Basically, you'll want a decent spec processor or two, and as much RAM as you can bung in the thing. though, rather than 4 windows 7 licences - if you licence the processor for server 2008 r2 enterprise, you can run up to 4 windows server vms. might be worth a look? although if its not a domain anyway...maybe not

for playing giant CDs....

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Will it blend?