Mark Mayo at Joyent has an interesting rant regarding recent issues with their Sun deployments:

How to completely ruin a great piece of server kit (regarding the Sun X4200 M2)
By Mark Mayo

And Ben Rockwood adds his frustration:

Getting Fed Up With Sun: Can’t Get Systems, Breaking Existing Ones

I previously put in a few words regarding my experience, or attempt at an experience, with the Sun group:

Dell vs. Sun, or Sun vs. Consumer?

Frustrations are clearly brewing for the sysadmins at Joyent. And I don’t blame them. Standardizing a stack of their magnitude requires standardization of your server storage and networking infrastructure. Throw in a wrench to part of that equation, as Sun appears to have, and you potentially have a recipe for mutiny.

-Thomas

The usual mid-week gem in the office is the weekly InfoWorld print magazine in my bundle of mail. This week’s edition came as an unexpected surprise described by the editor as a Farewell to ink

At my desk resides what will be the last print issue of Infoworld, and on my desktop now resides a bookmark link to Infoworld.com.

Very frustrating, allow me to explain.

I’ve avoided infoworld.com on most occasions due to the horrendous layout of the site, the extremely slow page loads, and the enormous volume of paid advertising littered everywhere (which in turn result in the slow page loads).

This post follows my attempt to read an article on the Dell PowerEdge series while an ad in the middle of the page moved jarbbled text in repeated circles, attempting to sway my attention, which it did, with no method of disabling it.

I’ve been an avid reader of infoworld (print version) for close to six years now. Give me a subscription method to infoworld.com minus a majority of the annoying ad space and I will jump right in. No different than a subscription to the wall street journal, the content of Infoworld.com is an excellent read. I just cannot read an article while an ad sits in the middle of the page in nonstop motion.