Squawking Printasaurs

I had a brief business meeting yesterday with someone I'd never met before. As normal course of action, we performed the archaic act of the business cards exchange. Sure, I'll keep the business card for no particular reason other than to clutter my already-too-small drawer space. And today, I got around to adding him into my contacts.

Name, business, title, check.

Business address, check.

Email address, check.

Office and cell phones, check and check.

Fax number, check.

Wait, what? Fax number? Hold it right there.Why on earth do I continue to keep fax numbers? I realize there are plenty of businesses that continue to hang on to their squawking Printasaur but I'm not one of them. I can't fathom why anyone does. They are slow, inconvenient to use, produce horrendous quality, and error prone.

No more. From this day forward don't ask me to feed your Printasaur. I won't even save your fax number. It's not worth the 80-bits of storage.

Kudos to HP

I have used HP servers before. Generally speaking, though, I am a software guy not a hardware guy, so when I say I've used such-and-such hardware I usually mean that I've used Linux and other software on that piece of gear.

In the last week I have had an opportunity to touch the hardware, first to rack a handful of DL360s, then last night to add memory. In both cases I've been impressed and they have made a fan out of me.

Installing the servers was a breeze because the rails are terrific. They install with "click", front and back, and then the servers slip on to the rails. I've dealt with other rails in the past which were a convoluted combination of gravity, insertions, and screws. And worse yet, some can make uninstalling a server a chore. HP wins this one hands down. Click, click. Ingenious.

Adding memory had a little less wow factor but I did like how the lid slips on and off with the little lever. And the DIMMs fit in nice and securely, again with a click click.