http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeveless_shirt

I do hope they throw in a case or three of it, to be strategically cooled in the cold-air outlets. One can is just stingy.

Don't really need to sell too many of these to rake in the revenues. And it sounds like the real work is in preparing the assembly manual - most of the bits and pieces will be lying around in the plant. Nice piece of gear - but is it hot-swappable?

So, they're throwing in a Chav with every unit? Is he for security?

What - no genie and a tank to store what you need to have a "datacentre on the go" =D

The real answer is to update your existing datacenter vs. branching out to the parking lot. Follow PG&E's lead.

http://knowledgestorm.fastcompany.com/fastco/search/viewabstract/92258/index.jsp

Found one... in amanfromMars backyard

http://hostingfu.com/files/images/sun-blackbox-mars.jpg

.. If they ship to the UK, mind you with the amount of boats sinking in the channel lately that may not be a good thing. (pirate icon for the MS Napoli)

Last I heard though he was upset with the latency on his wireless connection

Get the black helicopter brigade onto it right away.

I never open El Reg without having the following tabs open:

1. Acronym Finder;

2. Urban Dictionary;

3. NetLingo;

4. OED;

5. Wikipedia and

6. Encyclopaedia Britannica.

That way I can usually follow at least some of the articles.

Well that proves that there must be water on mars!

Enterprising scumbags work out there's a container worth $500,000 in the parking lot.

Then, said container will most likely no longer be in the parking lot.

The parking lot is in your data center.

Sorry, wrong website.

A wifebeater is commonly known as a muscle shirt.

Is that actually a word?

Would have to be a huge FO truck to pull the trailer about with, so that I can go cruising the streets at night and show off my gigantic periperherals. Preferably a monster truck with neon underlighting, tinted windows, a jacuzzi in the back (complete with bikini-clad beauties) and a bumper sticker reading "My other trailer is an SGI" or similar. And a portable fridge stacked full with Wifebeater, of course. :)

You'll also need this handy online reference (not for the faint-hearted) to get Brit-speak:

http://www.viz.co.uk/profanisaurus/profan_index.php

@Bert Ragnarok: google's query define:$word usually does the trick:)

The only extra question is if Night Rider can park his car in the back of it?

If these data center crates need power and water, maybe they can tack on one of these things and increase their profits?

http://www.icehouseamerica.com/index.asp

As opposed to "Sun screws four buyers..."

Here in sunny (not so much lately) Southern California if you happen to be wearing a wife-beater and cut off jeans at the beach it is known as a Mexican Wetsuit. Not sure where it came from but I heard it on the radio the other day, made me chuckle.

You've already published a picture of an entire boat-load of them being shippped out here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/10/radiohead_wartime_misery/

What more evidence do you need?

Power and water needed. What about an Internet connection?

How many supercomputer/HPC clusters run at 10% utilization?

Even if there are occasional times when a cluster is at 10% utilization, virtulization won't give it the resources it needs when it has to be run at 100% utilization.

You guys are bloody nuts. "Wifebeater" means exactly what it sounds like- a married individual that beats their wife. This is very common among so-called "white trash", which is why it was part of the joke in this article.

See "Live Free or Die Harder" - the hackers had one of these for their HQ...

Goes to show the baddies are always one step ahead...