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We’ve got about 80 Supermicro X7DBR motherboards in use at my company. They all have slots for this nifty IPMI card. Half of them don’t work, because the BIOS is too old on the motherboard. Supermicro provides a BIOS upgrade. You must either be running Windows, or have the ability to boot from a floppy disk. SUPERMICRO DOES NOT SELL SERVERS WITH FLOPPY DRIVES!

So I have to go through hell to make a DOS bootable CDROM that also has the bios upgrade files on it. This is a huge pain in the ass. SUPERMICRO, PUT BOOTABLE CD IMAGES ON YOUR SITE!

Also, while I’m at it, Supermicro’s IPMI implementation blows, too. The remote video console thing has a HUGE keyboard button repeat problem. I’ve worked with their support department a lot, but after weeks of trying the problem never got fixed. It has taken me 30 to 40 minutes to type “linux ks=blah blah blah” because I have to keep erasing all the repeated buttons, and then a lot of the time it repeats me pressing backspace, erasing the entire line.

Say what you want about CNN. I’m going to say this right now: Their video sucks. They finally moved into 1999 when they recently switched to a Flash-based video player. They just waited until 2006. Whatever.

But that’s not what I’m complaining about. EVERY SINGLE ONE of their videos is stretched - not in the correct aspect ratio. It’s horrible. What finally motivated me to post about this is shown below:

That’s Tina Fey. She’s very pretty, but not in the above picture, because her face is stretched like 4 inches, because of CNN’s retardation. How on earth could such a large media company fuck this up so badly?

Additionally, more and more articles on CNN link to videos and not actual text. In a given day, there are about 3 or 4 articles I’d like to read, but are video-only. And now the video is stretched. Thanks, CNN.