How To Make Health Care More Affordable:

How to make health care more available and affordable, according to Congress:

1. Eliminate inexpensive bare-bones insurance plans.
2. Make everyone buy every possible kind of coverage, whether they need them or not.  Make teetotallers buy substance-abuse coverage and single men buy pediatric and maternity coverage.
3. De facto tax prescription drugs.
4. De facto tax medical devices.
5. De facto prohibit expanding hospitals or building new ones.

I wish I was making this up.

(Thanks to montieth for the pointer.)

How ... annoying

babylon4, my main server (a dual-Xeon box with, currently, 4GB of RAM and a dozen 300GB SATA disks on two SAS controllers, running Solaris 10) just began randomly crashing for no apparent reason whatsoever.  Nothing logged, no kernel panic onscreen, just ... one moment running totally normally, and the next, dead in the water with no video and not responding on the network.  Power supplies show green throughout.  I'm running memtest86+ on it right now; it's gone through one pass with no errors, and is ... currently 28% into pass 2.

This wouldn't be quite so annoying if it would at least give me some vague clue about what's the problem.

I've taken the opportunity to pull the one failed disk out.  I'd like to get the cover off and check the CPU heatsink fans, but I need to rearrange the rack a bit to be able to do that.  (UPS down 1U or even 2U, move firewall on top of the UPS, would do it.)  I should try to get that done today.