During the deployment of System Center Operations Manager 2007 we realized that the database is not supported on Itanium (IA64) hardware. This was a big issue for us, because we only had IA64 hardware for our database machines. So a sick idea came to our minds: just install it on a temporary x86 or x64 machine - with the exact same machine name as the final IA64 production machine, detach the database and move it to the IA64 and re-attach it there.

After that, you have to ensure that the broker function is enabled on the DB. To do so, execute the following query in the SQL management studio (assuming you named the database 'OperationsManager':
SELECT is_broker_enabled FROM sys.databases WHERE name='OperationsManager'

This should return '1'. If not fire up the following statement (again, assuming the database is named 'OperationsManager':
ALTER DATABASE OperationsManager SET ENABLE_BROKER 

If the service broker is not enabled you might get errors or hangs during discoveries and submitting tasks. 

So far this is working great for us, it's still not clear if a setup like this is supported by Microsoft. But there really should be no difference running the DB on a IA64 instead of running it on a x64. No binaries are installed by the setup, only the database schema is created. As far as I know, Microsoft is working on IA64 support for the database - maybe a Service Pack 1 thing...

Update:

You also have to be sure that the CLR (.NET Common Language Runtime) for stored procedures is enabled. To do so:
EXEC sp_configure 'clr enabled', 1;
RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE;
GO

I use a lot of different browsers on my systems. I am using Safari on the Mac and Internet Explorer on Windows - and of course most of the other available browsers like Camino, Opera and Firefox. My favorite is Firefox. One simple reason is the huge amount of available plug-ins and extensions which are handy for daily browsing and of course for development purposes.

Another great thing about Firefox is customization. Ever tried to put “about:config” in the URL box? Doing so enables you to change a lot of settings where no GUI is available. In fact that’s the GUI for managing  Firefox’ “registry”. One thing which was bothering me all the time about Firefox was the automatic image resize to fit in the window.

Fire up Firefox. Enter “about:config” and just change the value of “browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing” to false. That’s it. 

You can find some useful tips on the How-To-Geek blog like the one above or on how to disable tab scrolling and much more.