server quote sanity check, please?

[Alan Horn]

>
> OTOH, I have built my own systems from (high-end) cases and parts I bought
> on eBay.  I really like the Intel SR-2100 and its later versions.  But I
> was probably stupid to waste my time on this.  It was a lot of goofing
> around and flashing the BIOS, etc., even with one vendor for the whole
> thing.  (And in one of the eBay transactions, the seller _actually died_
> after taking my money and before shipping out the part, and I lost $300 for
> not claiming sooner. :-O  But that's another story.)
>

I just don't bother building my own systems for deployment anymore. For 
everything but the lowest budget situations its not worth the worry of 
wondering if I got it all right. My time is better spent elsewhere in 
sysadmin ;)

Cheers,

Al