On Wednesday 10 February 2010, John Oliver wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:36:54AM -0500, J. Epperson wrote: > > And UPSs! We must ensure that we have appropriately proprietarily > > conditioned power for our proprietary servers. And no third party > > replacement batteries either. Lord only knows what sort of corruption > > that could lead to. > > -- > And, for our own good, we must be restricted to using Dell-branded > enclosures... we can't take the risk that the holes in a lesser product > might be out-of-kilter, slightly tweaking the chassis, causing memory > and cards to edge out of their slots. > > Better get Dell-branded network cables, too. And Dell KVMs, Dell > keyboards, Dell mice... Dell mousepads, too, just to absolutely ensure a > positive computing experience...
Be careful what you wish for. The "network cable"-one is already here. 10G for shorter distances now is using so called twinax cables for SFP+. One feature of SFP+ (like other transiever slots) is that it identifies what you connect. Atleast one major network equipment vendor (and I'm guessing most other too) only allows its own cables. /Peter
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