I hear ya I think the ops thinking is about the delivery right … we can just try to be kind to people who don’t know instead of a typical elitist computer people the world knows we are.

The inefficiency of those old machines isn’t open for debate they are facts

If you are new here and look at some of the setups around Christ im intimated

If we are experts we should be able to guide newcomers with expertise which is more than just oh that’s no good

So I agree that the advice is good advice however consider..

1. They may not pay for hydro
2. They get this dell 2950 for free and this is ground zero for them.

I think we can deliver that information without demoralizing someone out of the sub.

We all can’t have 42U cabinets with better datacenters than most medium sized businesses

I was going to say … someone who knows what to do when it all comes crashing down ..