At my first ever consulting gig I started for a small company of about 9 office employees and workstations. The workstations ranged from a Pentium II 233MHz w/32MB RAM running Windows 98 to a 3.0GHz P4 Mobile laptop with XP (and 40 processes worth of bloatware).
3 - Windows 98 machines
3 - Windows ME machines
3 - Windows XP machines
I immediately knew I was in trouble when I saw what their previous IT guy had done. They had a very nice HP Laser printer hooked up to the network and configured for IP printing. This guy had hooked up the 233MHz Pentium box (used by the accountant) to print to it via IP Printing and then shared it to the rest of the network. Everyone else printed through that share on the Win 98 box rather than IP printing themselves. Needless to say, her old system slowed down quite a bit every time someone decided to print something.
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At my first ever consulting gig I started for a small company of about 9 office employees and workstations. The workstations ranged from a Pentium II 233MHz w/32MB RAM running Windows 98 to a 3.0GHz P4 Mobile laptop with XP (and 40 processes worth of bloatware). 3 - Windows 98 machines 3 - Windows ME machines 3 - Windows XP machines I immediately knew I was in trouble when I saw what their previous IT guy had done. They had a very nice HP Laser printer hooked up to the network and configured for IP printing. This guy had hooked up the 233MHz Pentium box (used by the accountant) to print to it via IP Printing and then shared it to the rest of the network. Everyone else printed through that share on the Win 98 box rather than IP printing themselves. Needless to say, her old system slowed down quite a bit every time someone decided to print something.