Sayatnim

Here is a handy hint:

If you want to endear yourself to your friendly neighbourhood ICT technician, do not wait until 4:00pm the day before a new temp starts before telling him about it and then expect the said temp to be up and running by 9:00am the next day.

Reasons why I do not want a Sun Enterprise E4500 with 10 processors and 14gb RAM.

1) It is very big.
2) It would use a lot of electricity.
3) Despite the size it would probably require an external SCSI hard drive, possibly an array.
4) It is very heavy.
5) It doesn't run AIX.
6) The 10 processors only run at 400mhz each.
7) It is very noisy.
8) It generates a lot of heat.

The only reason I'd want one is to enjoy the prestige of having a machine which originally cost many thousands of pounds, has a ridiculous number of processors and memory and is generally not something you'd find at home. Rather like the lunatic in Sweden who runs an Enterprise 10000 'Starfire' with 64 processors and 64gb RAM at home. When it's on he can't have any of his usual appliances on (TV, cooker, etc) as it'll overload the electrics in his home. There's one on Ebay right now for £1600, not a bad price but they are apparently a bitch to get running.

I don't really want a Sun machine, but they are readily available when IBM kit isn't.

Sayatnim is the name of my village in Animal Crossing on the DS, a game which seemed great at first but quickly got repetitive and dull.