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Once again, the starting point was a simple oval.

Today I gave a talk at the ISPA office concerning DNSSEC. See here for the official announcement.

Attendance was good, we had interesting questions and a lively discussion.

You can download my slides in pdf format.

… and all the king’s men, couldn’t get Clemens’ bread together again.

When I got my company cell-phone two years ago, I opted for a Nokia 6120. The reasoning was simple: Nokia was supposed to have a decent user-interface, the phone could act as a 3G modem for my laptop and run various simple applications like Avantgo.

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The razor business is said to have premiered the following business model: Sell the razor really cheap, but charge a lot for the blades.

Seeing the same in IT isn’t unusual, the prime examples are Inkjet printers where the printer is ridiculously cheap, but a new ink cartridge costs almost the same as the printer.

Cisco memory is another example.

I just noticed the same with HP’s new entry-level 1U server, the HP 120G5. We bought one for evaluation purposes for slightly above 500 €. Seems like a decent hardware: 1GB RAM, a Xeon processor and a single SATA harddisk. No frills, no chrome spoilers, just a straight forward server.

But: no on-board remote management. That would be extra. You need to buy the HP DL120 G5 Lights-Out 100c kit. We just plugged one of these into a DL 180, where we really need it. It’s a very tiny card. Just a PCI-E slot, a RJ45 jack and a single chip:

The price: ~ 200 €.

Sheesh.