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  1. $399 to activate the "Advanced" (KVM access) iLO features on this HP server? That's just taking the piss.
  2. Just a reminder, never ever EVER deal with Hays. Evil company.
  3. @victori Okie dokie - thanks for the feedback! :-)
  4. @victori Hey there - I spotted your blog post about Varnish on Solaris. Are you still using it - has it proved itself to be stable?
  5. Why host with us when you can host with THE ONLY HOSTING COMPANY WITH A HELICOPTER?! http://hostchopper.com/
  6. RT @whoopsie: if you missed Micro Men on BBC 4 last night - 1) what's wrong with you? 2) there are repeats and iPlayer to save you
  7. RT @davegardnerisme: Interesting and succinct argument for *not* sharding - from the guys at mysqlperformanceblog. http://is.gd/42GhG
  8. Hurrah! At bloody last. Amazon Kindle eBook reader set to hit the uk 19th October: http://bit.ly/wEiXV
  9. Upgrading my Blackberry Bold from 4.6 to 5.0. Hope it doesn't explode.
  10. RT @armintalic: Still no Google Wave account. Guess I'll have to stick to talking with people face-to-face in real-time. Ugh, what a drag.
  11. Hurrah! My enormous box of Cat5e cables have arrived.
  12. @bensummers I used to want to do that. Then I decided I didn't like low level C and assembly :)
  13. @alaric Gosh. That's a big undertaking :)
  14. I honestly don't know what I would do without ZFS.
  15. @adamamyl What's wrong with logrotate?!
  16. RT @geniedb: Reaching out into the #cloud: http://bit.ly/pnX2X
  17. @bensummers The installer and IPS are my hates. IPS *must* be better than pkg for people to use it. No sparse zones? Slow? Hard to use? wtf?
  18. @bensummers I know this is old news and an old blog post, but did you read http://bit.ly/ODw69 ?
  19. @alaric Don't be mean customers are lovely :-)
  20. RT @alexisfellenius: We moved to EveryCity! More: http://bit.ly/OMWtG Thanks to @alasdairwork, Arnaud Mathieu and @jonslater