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As you can see, HP does only support Windows 2003 Standard Edition on their DL 320 Server. I wonder why that is. As far as I know, there are not that many differences between the two editions - especially in terms of hardware support - that would justify this difference. Is this some scheme to force people to buy new hardware just because the old one is not supported anymore? I guess we'll have to evaluate different vendors and their support policy.

As promised – here the details of my undertaking regarding my CD collection. One day I really got fed up for having to keep a huge rack of CDs in my living room. It just doesn’t look good. And I don’t really like handling the CDs. So I decided to rip them all. I already started with some CDs using Windows Media Player and an mp3 codec with 320bit/s setting. But I didn’t like the quality. After some research regarding lossless audio codecs, I decided upon FLAC (free lossless audio codec). Here’s why: wave format does not support tagging (song title, etc) and is creates huge files mp3 and other “lossy” formats: the quality is not good enough for me wma format: has DRM in it and I simply do not trust Microsoft in this matter FLAC has all benefits I was looking for: free, open source format, no DRM lossless compression support for tags available on all platforms Then I went ahead and searched for a tool that supports ripping CDs and automatically compressing and tagging the resulting files

Slow blogging, as I'm still ripping all my CDs. The Squeezebox2 is one of the most amazing little devices I ever bought. Fast, solid and amazingly open. More to come...