Archive for December, 2007

Goodbye 2007

Posted on December 23rd, 2007 by Othello  |  No Comments »


Well, it’s almost the end of the year, so in every industry it’ll be Lists and Resolutions for a while now… The constant dross is on the goggle-box, designed either to make you conform, or simply to confirm that 99% of viewers are brain-dead like… 100 most unappaling songs ever 100 mind-numbing sports personalities 100 […]

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And the awards for the 3 biggest hosting outages of 2007 go to …

Posted on December 20th, 2007 by Othello  |  No Comments »


#3 Serverbeach During a storm a power feed failure lead to the ServerBeach datacentre to switch onto generator power. Sadly at SB the generators didn’t cover the aircon units, just the servers. Internal temperatures quickly soared to 60+ degrees in the DC, meaning everything had to be immediately shut down to save the building catching […]

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Micro$oft Announce Windows Server 2008 pricing models

Posted on December 4th, 2007 by Othello  |  No Comments »


In anticipation of the major marketing machine and hype engine gearing up for next years Windows 2008 launch, MickeyMouseSoft have announced a plethora of versions and licences designed entirely to confuse you … There will be ELEVEN versions of W2k8-Server Standard 32bit Standard 64bit Standard 64bit with Hyper-V support Enterprise 32bit Enterprise 64bit Enterprise 64bit […]

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