So, about work.
A typical mid-sized government-owned office. A motley collection of PCs, network cabling running along the floor, no documentation, two cheap Surecom hubs/switches. However, the guy who managed all this before me is a very smart fellow. No irony intended. Antivirus software is installed, users work with Total Commander (all of them!), The Bat, and a local messenger. On top of that — there's the aforementioned server, which sits in a rack cabinet together with a 24-port **3COM** switch. Fifteen UTP lines (run through cable ducts) lead into the cabinet and terminate in wall outlets at the workstations. My job is to migrate the local network from its current state to the new equipment.
The server is a decent piece of iron from **DELL**, configured either at the factory or by the resellers. It runs Windows 2003 RC2 (licensed, mind you). So the question of configuring RAID arrays has (fortunately or unfortunately) been taken off my plate. It's powered on, it works, it hums away.