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Of course, we have had a few people who said, "I wish it was something more 'flashy'." Now I personally love bright, highly-saturated colors, and I love the F840 face plate. But the problem is that, whatever direction of 'flashy' color you try to go, someone will have a bad association with it.
Heh heh. Well, you can never go wrong with the classic looks, as in stereo equipment. Brushed aluminum, matte black, deep charcoal... maybe a deep maroon, or burgundy? The understated elegance of the darker tones conveys a sense of confidence, stillness, even mystery... :-) I do like how the filer "heads" stand out from the disk trays; the chrome was quite dashing, and the blue of the 700 series is very nice. I mean, I too like rich, saturated colors, but wild neons or "candy apple" anything miiiiight not fit our current arrangement. :-)
I mean, ya gotta admit, when putting a pile of someone's investment capital into a server room there has to be an "ooooh, ahhhh" factor there. So along those lines, I don't suppose I could lobby for slightly flashier disk activity LEDs? The old StorageWorks cans were visible from outer space, but the later SCSI trays and the FC9's are almost too subtle - man, without a Manly-Und-Evah-So-Impressive Array Of Blinky Lights you get more "ho hum" than "ooooh, ahhhh". (It's cheating to rc_toggle_basic and manually program flashing led patterns when giving tours. :-)
Speaking of "ho hum," I suppose I ought to upgrade or break something or randomly yank some cords or something so I can ask some technical questions... I guess until I can schedule a downtime to continue our Oracle testing, I'll just have to yammer on about aesthetic issues. :-)
Cheers,
-- Chris
-- Chris Lamb, Unix Guy MeasureCast, Inc. 503-241-1469 x247 skeezics@measurecast.com