Archive for the ‘dell’ Category

Whither the floppy?

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Sunday afternoon I began the process of adding a couple of 1TB drives to the Dell 2950 server I'm using as a VMWare Server at home.  This system is pretty beefy at 2x3GHz dual core 2x2 Xeons with 16GB memory, but the pair of 70GB drives it sported were just ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

This Christmas was filled with all sorts of delights. From good times with family and friends to new XBox 360s, bikes, TVs and laptops. After dealing with the agonizingly inconsistent behavior of our Sony KP-51HW40 for over a year, we finally decided to replace it with a Samsung ...

The Power of VMWare

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

So I got a new Dell Vostro 200 last week that I wanted to set up to start working a little more in depth with VMWare at home. We already use VMWare ESX extensively at work but I have a lot of old machines running as servers in my ...

Dell’s most pricy system

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Came across this today while checking out Dell's newest XPS system. It will only get pricier when these 1TB drives hit the market. Now taking donations!