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Exactly that, realistically a dual port NIC should give you enough speed anyway. If you're running Windows then everything you need is free from Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=19867 - and the initiator is included in the OS already. There's presumably free...

Second microserver and then (assuming the volumes need to be 'attached' to the first one) run iSCSI over a 2/4GBE team? Probably cheaper than looking at DAS units.

I had my tail-end installed with them last week (which consists of a ~10m CAT5e run to a cab down the hallway next to the dry riser) and the fibre to building should go live sometime this week. For £25 a month it's got to be better than the 3mbit (~512k through at peak) BT can provide.

That's what I thought too, but my current flat is in a development of 4 towers and only the smallest of the 4 is enabled. That's about 350 flats left with a 3mbit ASDL1 sync (exchange is Poplar, which is heavily oversubscribed so at peak times throughput is about 512k) BT's only plan at the...

It'd be North Greenwich > Jubilee > Canning Town > DLR > Royal Victoria, which doesn't sound like a lot of effort to interchange but during rush hour or major events at either the O2 or ExCeL causes chaos at Canning Town. Shame it's not included in travel cards though, they already charge extra...

Yep, a failover cluster needs shared storage between all nodes. HyperV uses a cluster shared volume which will be accessible by all nodes at the same time - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_Shared_Volumes To migrate machines in/out of the cluster it doesn't need to be on the same SAN though.

Out of interest, what made you go for the R610 over the R810? I'd have assumed that 6 of those would have been less of a management overhead than 12 smaller boxes.

Are they sending the messages from one of the cluster nodes by any chance?

From experience (if anybody has managed then I'd be intered to see the config) when clustering MSMQ, you can only access the clustered resource from outside of the cluster. Your application will still use the individual node installations to send the messages (including acks) which will fail to...

Yep, I'm on the Poplar exchange. Downloads and SSL usenet happily max out my BT connection at 40/10 so there doesn't seem to be any exchange congestion. Much better than the 3mbit ADSL I used to get, which was pretty bad since I can see GS1/Telehouse out of the window.

I use Calibri for the body and Cambria for the titles. I've reviewed dozens of CVs this year for new hires - generally speaking as long as its readable and isn't Comic Sans (or Papyrus...) then the content is more important.

Why are you planning on using a rack server as a gaming system? Selling it and buying desktop components should get you far better performance give that spec doesn't really match what you need for desktop tasks.

Has anybody managed to get S2008R2 onto one of these without using an optical drive? Copying setup to a local disk and via PXE both fail for me with missing drivers just after clicking the 'install now' button. Even giving it the driver on USB doesn't work as it's apparently not compatible.

Not wanting to sound too much like a job board, but this might help someone out. If there's any C++/C# developers out there with at least a couple of years experience looking then feel free to drop an email to my trust; based in central London, working on an energy/commodity trading platform.

Forced the update here too, working great so far. Now all I need is a WP7 Spotify client...

I don't really get the attraction, despite walking through there to get to work. It's all a bit touristy and a massive rip off if you actually want to buy something.

Back in the day I had a 20 minute argument with a manager at a map shop who refused to believe it was possible to have an s-video to composite adapter. I don't think he was impressed with the staff member who not only disagreed with him, but went and got one in about 30 seconds.

I'd say so. I went from a set (well actually 2 with some bodge wiring...) of Creative Inspire 5500 5.1 to the Aego M's about 2 years ago and haven't looked back since. They're a very good choice for the middle ground between 'PC' speakers and HiFi.

City airport has free wifi and power sockets all over the place, I go through there reasonably regularly. Laptops are fine on planes, just remember to take it out of your bag in security. You'll get ripped if you get currency at an airport - it's much better on the high street, or even just...

Thanks guys, looks like I need to add a DAC / USB soundard to my shopping list then :)