I’ll be over there..

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Getting a bit behind in my tech news today, I’m spending too much time down the hall setting up a PC for our new employee who starts Monday. Seems like it only took me a couple of hours to get an NT box up and configured but it takes me a bit longer to do an XP box. Actually, no, it takes me longer to do a newly purchased PC than it does to reimage one with a new hard drive because of all the “stuff” that comes preinstalled!

Ironically, we get the PC’s from CDW this way because they’re cheaper than getting workstations directly from the manufacturer without all the extras. We’re not big enough to qualify for bulk discounts and we’re not “charity” so we don’t get any non-profit discounts either! Welcome to the wonderful world of “not-for-profit”, all the budget limitations of non-profits with none of the benefits! *L*

Share with your friends!
LinkedInBlueskyMastodonThreadsRedditBuffer

Similar Posts

  • Security is Happiness

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    No seriously, I attended an Internet Security Systems demo/seminar this morning and they gave away t-shirts with big smiley faces and “Security is Happiness” printed under them. They’re pretty silly looking, I’ll try and webcam it tonight so you can see what I’m talking about. The seminar was decent, it’s always humorous when you setup…

  • Reading over lunch

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Getting a small chance to play catch up while I eat lunch, since Angela went home sick. (The heat in the building has reached a point of making her nauseous, maybe it’s time to send everyone home!) Phil’s got a list of ways to surf blogs at random: NextBlog! gives you a random recently updated…

  • Interesting reading for today…

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Confessions of a cyberchondriac -I could see this happening, people self diagnose all the time. With all that medical information online it’s a gold mine for people who do that! That being said, the last time I did a bunch of online medical research was in between an initial diagnosis by my doctor and an…

  • Counting on that email?

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Remember how I was telling you about our work ISP and the fact that they simply stopped sending bounces for bad email addresses? I have been working on a “tip of the week” for next week and trying to explain to our users that email is not reliable, that if they don’t get a reply…

  • The Observed Life

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I saw this post titled Living the Observed Life, and thought it was an interesting idea. You should go read it too, and follow all the links. It’s true that no one expects to be sued, I certainly don’t. On the other hand, at my previous job as the IT guy, I did have to…

  • More stuff

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Put up some of the pics from today. I went ahead and broke them into two albums, one consisting of Pics from the Beartooth Pass Highway leading into Yellowstone, and another with pics from Yellowstone. Enjoy! I will admit looking at this stuff all day makes me miss work not at all! Follow these topics:…

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Your post must include a link to this post.

How does this work?
Write a response on your own website and include a link to this post. Then submit your response’s URL here. Your response may appear here after moderation. To update or remove it, edit or delete your original post and submit the same URL again. Learn more about Webmentions.