Sometimes life's a cake

[firstcrusader]

MSU surprised me today by replacing my old office computer with a spare newer one. It makes me happy--this one is better and faster and has crazy things like Windows XP Pro installed on it. Some of the specs on this baby?

Intel Celeron processer (1.10 GHz) and 384 MB RAM.

Yes, folks, this is an upgrade. The really great thing about this is

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[cry_me_a_road]

yeah.
this is the 3rd new computer i've gotten.
it kind of stinks changing in some ways,
but i have windows XP now, indeed

[firstcrusader]

At least all of my actual files are saved on the unit's server--we really don't have to worry about losing anything (except for the fact that different programs are on different machines).

In other news, I saw you and (I think) William walking over to 7-11/DQ last Friday. I would have honked a Hi but it didn't occur to me fast enough that it was you walking.

In other other news, you should go to the Moores' on Friday night.

[cry_me_a_road]

yeah, we walk a lot. usually to and from church,
or around the neighborhood just to talk.

what's this about the moores'?

[knotty_pine]

Game night.
For further details
there is haiku

[knotty_pine]

DSW!

My work computer: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00 GHz w/ 256 MB RAM.
My upgrade (Computer I had sitting next to this one doing nothing for three months): Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00 GHz w/ 512 MB RAM.

The reason that I can't use this brand new computer to do my work? HP, in their infinite wisdom, decided that their small-footprint business desktops didn't need to support full-size PCI cards, so they moved to some funky half-height form factor for expansion cards. Which means that my dual-monitor video card (extremely necessary for my workflow) doesn't fit into the pretty new computer. We hear that there is a video card available for the new form factor, but no one in the bank's IT department has ever actually seen one. So, two brand new computers are sitting unused (that one now resides in my file cabinet, due to IBM's clean desk policy [don't ask]).

Feh. I spit upon HP.

[firstcrusader]

My old one was something like 8 or 9 years old--I think it was the only one they had available when they hired me, and anyway, it's not like I do any programming or anything. It was amazing how slow it was, in retrospect--I think it had a 500 or so MHz CPU. I would literally open Firefox and go and get a cup of coffee while I waited for it to load. I went to do that today and was shocked to find that Firefox was already up within two seconds of starting it today...

[knotty_pine]

Ah, I remember the good old days of running Mozilla Firebird (0.6.1, I think) on a Pentium Pro 200 MHz w/ 96 MB of RAM. Hello, five-minute startup times.

[euchrecthulhu]

Does it have an AGP slot? I have two monitors myself and that's what I use for my video card.