"Bob Dylan and Friends" is a small but pretty cool photo gallery over at Pbase.com. The guy with the beard and glasses is Allen Ginsberg. "Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night ..."
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We received a couple of the Sun Fire T2000's. They were slated for deployment at our datacenter, so I had a great chance for some hands on experience with the new machines.
Solid and clean - its a theme that repeats itself from the packaging to the machine. The boxes are solid - no need for me to worry about how they will do in the back of my truck. The rail kit and cable management are packaged in the same clean way.
After removing the machine and laying it on the staging cart, we took some time to admire the design and look it over. The LEDs on the front are nice. The power button is interesting. You need a stylus (or similar item) to press it. That's not a concern since most of us have the Treo phones. When you do press the power button, the fans fire off revving and then quiet down (a nice audio confirmation.)
We needed to install a card ... and it took less than a minute. No screwdrivers needed. Simply press the button (located in the lower center of this picture) and lift the cover. We could have done it quicker but we spent some time checking out the insides. Clean. Nice cable management. (If you look at the inside view shot, they've actually moved the SATA cables to the side for the picture). Lots of RAM. 
There's a lever that holds the slot cover, so simply swinging the lever enabled us to pull the cover out. We popped the card in, which fit perfectly. Swing back the lever and the card is locked in place. How sweet is that! I found myself staring dumbly at the screwdriver in my hand. At one point Will reached in and plucked out a fan - very nifty.
Datacenter deployment was simple as well. The rail mounting brackets simply snapped on. Sweet! The rails had a spacer tool which took a couple of minutes to figure out, but works very nicely. The only time I used a screwdriver was for putting the rails on the rack. There's no need to screw the server into place once installed - it simply snaps and locks into place. The really nifty item is the cable management kit. It mounts on the back and extends and folds out when you pull the machine forward, preventing your cables from being snagged or pulled out. And when you are wiring the machine, the arm can be released to swing out for easy cable installation. Schaweet! You can check out the Sun Fire T2000 Server Installation Guide for some nifty diagrams.
Additional info:
» Tags: SUN, CoolThreads, Servers, Datacenter
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Continuing with the 8-track theme ...
I remember being dragged to a wedding as a kid, and of course I was bored. However, at the reception, they were playing pretty good music. Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "You Ain's Seen Nothing Yet" came on, and the next thing I knew I was on the dance floor dancing by myself. Which embarrassed my parents to no end. My father still talks about that moment ... When you gotta boogie, you gotta boogie!
"I met a devil woman,
She took my heart away,
She said, I had it comin' to me,
But I wanted it that way.
I think that any love is good lovin', and
So I took what I could get mmh,
Oooh, oooh she looked at me with big brown eyes
And said:
You ain't seen nothin' yet,
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet,
Here's something that you never gonna forget,
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet.
And now I'm feelin' better,
'Cause I found out for sure.
She took me to her doctor
And he told me of a cure.
He said that any love is good love
So I took what I could get mmh,
Oooh, oooh she looked at me with big brown eyes
And said:
You ain't seen nothin' yet,
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet,
Here's something that you never gonna forget,
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet. ..."
Additional info:
- Wikipedia: Bachman-Turner Overdrive
- Song at iTunes: You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
- Album at Amazon: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bachman-Turner Overdrive
» Tags: Song of the day, Music, iTunes, 8-track
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The Userless Datacenter:
"Only real servers will be in this datacenter. Sun, HP, IBM servers. Any Intel servers will be running Linux or xBSD. There will be a cabinet labeled “NT Servers.” It will be empty. It will have cobwebs, and will be a focal point of positive energy."
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