It doesn't interoperate with other IM networks (that is the bad news), but it does a great job of penetrating corporate firewalls and routing around network problems (good for me, bad for most network administrators who are trying to deal with it). You just have to deal with it, I guess....

But we have to be realistic: We are dealing with four industries - networking, PC, content and communications. Besides that, the Viiv software is really difficult to deliver: We are dealing with multiple vendors and multiple countries. ...

The easy path is to pick the single vender who provides the best deal for the complete list, but this is not always possible. Relying on such one-time deals often requires substituting a lesser part to get a better value, however. Because small shops are constantly trying to build their reputations, and because they deal in lower volume, they're usually willing to go the "extra mile" to please each customer. Consider the situation of dealing with an incompatible part: Smaller locally-owned shops will usually offer free advice, inspect the item for free if you believe it's defective, or diagnose it in your system for a reasonable fee....

If you were to accidentally spill a cup of water on a gasoline engine while refilling your car's radiator, it's really not a big deal; the water won't harm the engine. But the truth is that the thermal benefits of liquid cooling are so attractive that it's easy to justify dealing with the negatives. Today's ready-to-install liquid cooling systems are not the mishmash of spare parts the enthusiast had to deal with yesteryear; they are tried and tested platforms....

If you want to deal with storage right, you will have to go for a product that stores data redundantly (usually based on RAID and two or more hard drives), or find an online storage provider that takes care of data safety. All of them offer various storage services and features, and most offer up to several gigabytes storage for free (though with limitations.) We haven’t looked at all of them in detail, as we’re dealing with Zettabyte’s product this time, but the main questions in general certainly are: Is my data safe and secure at an online storage provider? Only a locally installed storage device can give you enough performance to deal with many gigabytes of data within a reasonably short time....