On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 11:56 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:31:37PM +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote: > > > Hardware is from Sun, not a grocery store PC, so I don't suppose it to > > be faulty. > > FWIW, I had a pair of E4500s in one job that I would _happily_ have > traded for any beige box you care to mention. Heck, at the end I > mighta traded them for a lump of pig iron, they were so flakey. > Having "Sun" on the outside in no way protects you from faulty > hardware. Considering that a lot Sun hardware is just rebranded newsys (newisys?) I wouldn't put too much stock in the old "It's name brand" either. That is in no way to suggest that newsys is a bad vendor, just that Sun is just re-branding too. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake
