Fri Feb 1 21:12:51 2002
Does anyone have any idea what to do with all this space? I'd build a little bed in there, but it's 19 degrees centigrade. Brrr.
Fri Feb 1 21:25:25 2002
not enough for a decent sliding hill it appears..
Fri Feb 1 21:25:59 2002
Erm, wait....
:evilgrin:
Fri Feb 1 21:34:45 2002
Fri Feb 1 21:54:47 2002
I'm thinking about a boxing glove on a spring though.
Fri Feb 1 21:56:32 2002
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Fri Feb 1 22:21:16 2002
How about what are you doing with the old netfinity boxes? I'm a freak about old and/or interesting (and cheap!) hardware. My Netfinity 3500 mobo just got juiced up with a 9.1 GB HD and a copy of 2K server last night. It's no speed daemon, but I enjoi it muchly.
I kind of do to. I'm looking for old Alpha and SGI stuff myself.
I do need to get a job first.
Fri Feb 1 22:40:28 2002
How about what are you doing with the old netfinity boxes? I'm a freak about old and/or interesting (and cheap!) hardware
Oh, they're our .NET internal servers most probably. They're getting on - Dual 800 Xeons with 1GB of RAM and 40GB HDD, but there's life in the old dogs yet.
It's just scaling out with the new puppies takes up so much less space, and we need to be able to slam five or six more machines at a weekend's notice without the hassle of buying a new rack.
I wish more companies made black computers. I'd stuff Gateways in there (we're completely stateless and aiming at 60% of our projected peak capacity, so even if a couple explode we'll be fine) but they look so, well, so gauche.
Interesting you should mention G4s though. We're hiring a couple of "OK Yahs" to do marketing and DTP and they both want Macintoshes. Probably so they can easily crash the fuckers and bray like horses down the phone at their shallow PR finishing-school friends, no doubt.
(Edited by PaulHill at 2:41 pm on Feb. 1, 2002)
Sat Feb 2 03:51:51 2002
I hope you guys have standardized platforms. It'd certainly be best (from my POV ;)) if they get new, fast machines with XP Pro installed. Get 'em used to a real OS that has native software, dontcha know. :biggrin:
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Sat Feb 2 16:32:50 2002
if you don't, they'll figure something is up.
Sat Feb 2 20:13:15 2002
I know!
I'll tell them Apple bought out Microsoft in 2000! and XP is the corporate version of OS X!
Sat Feb 2 20:31:50 2002
Sat Feb 2 23:46:43 2002
from Magus posted at 2:31 pm on Feb. 2, 2002
How charmingly deceptive. :biggrin:
Indeed. :biggrin:
Sun Feb 3 02:05:21 2002
Mon Feb 4 02:49:52 2002
from AllYorBaseRBelong2Us posted at 9:05 pm on Feb. 2, 2002
Get some sort of song from "Hanson" on a .wav file and select it as their startup sound.
And set the group policy so that they can't change it. :evilgrin:
Mon Feb 4 02:59:33 2002
Hanson is teh bomb!!!!
make no fun of Hanson please!
Besides i'm sure the Dr. of Pizza's probably has a thing for one of the Hanson boys especially since on of them looks alot more girlish then boyish...
GO HANSON!!!!!
I LOVE YOU!!!
Mon Feb 4 09:00:21 2002
Now *that* was silliness at it's finest :)
Mon Feb 4 09:26:38 2002
Consider yourselves informed.
Wed Feb 6 22:01:41 2002
We're getting the Macintosh for one of them. The other doesn't really give a shit.
When all's said and done, it's just a computer. (shrugs)
Wed Feb 6 22:11:19 2002
Wed Feb 6 23:16:36 2002
But NOT on a computer costing two thousand pounds, damn it! For two grand I want a machine that, when being pushed down six flights of stairs (for example) makes alarming steel denty crunch tinkly banging noises, not something that sounds like an outtake from the Benny Hill show.
Wed Feb 6 23:43:24 2002
But NOT on a computer costing two thousand pounds, damn it! For two grand I want a machine that, when being pushed down six flights of stairs (for example) makes alarming steel denty crunch tinkly banging noises, not something that sounds like an outtake from the Benny Hill show.
Wed Feb 6 23:45:35 2002
Balance a LaserJet III on top of one and you're set!
Thu Feb 7 00:26:05 2002
I'm also convinced that the Laserjet III was merely an entry into the office stairwell crash olympics that got out of hand, because I've never seen one of the damn things print anything.
Thu Feb 7 16:40:35 2002
from PaulHill posted at 6:16 pm on Feb. 6, 2002
They make cool "Boiiinngg!!!" noises, which would normally be great.
My preference was the "eep" sound. ;)