Diary of a Network Geek

I just can’t bring myself to trust something from a car care company for my servers.

Oh, don’t get me wrong, when there’s work being done on buildings that creates a lot of dust, and there are servers nearby, I know it’s a problem.  That fine grit that gets into everything when they do wallboard, or, as we say in the South, “sheetrock”, will sure mess up a computer.  And, yes, I have worked on PCs and servers that have had that dust in it.  So, in theory, anything that helps keep dust out of a server is a good idea, and that’s what Servershield is; a vented, filtered cover for your servers to keep them cool and dust-free.  But, I just have a hard time getting my little, pointy head around the idea that the same people who created the Carcoon could make something to keep my servers safe.    I mean, it just sounds wrong, doesn’t it?

Well, anyway, this is something you have to see to believe, so go check it out; Servershield, by Carcoon.

Because, this is totally why I got into computers.

Yeah, right, sure it is.
Look, these new ads by Intel highlighting the “rockstars” of the geek world are great.  They’re cute.  They’re funny.  But they work because this is so NOT how our society works.  Geniuses who invent things that change the way many of us live are mostly not appreciated in their time.  They don’t have trading cards.  They aren’t the subject of comic books.  They don’t get their faces on boxes of breakfast cereal.
But, isn’t that wrong?  I mean, shouldn’t that be what we reward?  Not the super-jocks who can throw a ball or run the bases or whatever, but the geniuses who actually change the world?

Maybe I live in a dream land, but, well, that’s how I wish it was.