Copacetic

Dell the online is currently looping on this page for all queries regarding their servers. I didn’t bother to check anywhere else.

Fantastic.

Quick where can I short Dell shares?
(Update : Still down this morning!)

I just rang Dell and of course their sales line is oblivious to the problem. They then connected me to the technical help desk where an automated attendant wanted a service tag before proceeding.

This is a business that is predicated on Web Sales? Oy Vay!

A desktop and or laptop PC that just boots straight in Xen or VMWare. No windows, no Linux, just a pure virtual machine. Extra points for giving me the option to install a range of operating systems into that environment at config/purchase time.