Off you go… into the purple yonder!

So I have a poweredge 2800 with some hardware issues (voltage sensors on the riser card seeing things they should not…). The Dell support folks wanted me to run a DSET report with this tool

http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R155882&formatcnt=2&libid=0&fileid=208066

Man - what a pile of crap. This thing is a self-extracting archive for rpm-based systems (redhat/suse). Fine - except that [...]

Dell announced that a few more models are now available pre-installed with Ubuntu: the XPS 1530n and the Studio 15n.
I configured an XPS 1530n with the following specs, which are available both with Ubuntu and Windows:

SYSTEM COLOR
Tuxedo Black

PROCESSOR
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5850 (2.16GHz/667Mhz FSB/2MB cache)

LCD AND CAMERA
Full Hi Definition, glossy widescreen 15.4 inch LCD (1920×1200) [...]

Via Hack-a-day, this is a great (video) introduction to surface mount (SMT) soldering.