I've got a 455 in my Buick. (That's 7.5 litres for the cubic-inch-illiterate.) Passing power in every gear, ice cold air, a great heater, and an even 11 mpg on 93 octane regardless of driving conditions. 300+ horsepower, and torque measured in fractions of a foot-ton.
Considering the retail on Adobe's Design Collection is a cool $999 (ditto for their Publishing Collection), that doesn't leave a helluva lot for hardware, even if you don't pay retail.
I'd double the budget, buy a used Apple G4 like this, and one of the Adobe sets and a scanner.
It was for a DBA position at an insurance company. I had a great interview, and they almost offered me the job on the spot. I got a call a coupla days later saying they gave it to someone else. He was Oracle Certified, fresh out of college, and came on about $30k/yr cheaper than I would have.
Since he was certified, they figured he was trainable enough to be worth their while. I guess they could have sent him to $20k worth of training and still come out ahead.
... will work with an HP LaserJet 4 or 4m driver. I used to run into a lot of "unsupported printer" issues back when I was a Citrix admin. You can't make calls to fancy duplexing units or anything like that, but every printer I've personally tried could be made to print with that driver.
Another thought -- Set up an NT4.0 print server to handle it. We have some of them around here for precisely that reason.
I didn't want to make this some sort of Ad for where I work. However, since you decided to pick my nits, here is some information about our data center, and here is some info about what we do.
We have a data center in a tornado-proof building in western Missouri, one of the most siesmically stable areas of the country. We have generators with over a month's worth of fuel, and more redundancies built into things than I could care to list.
We mostly deal with companies in the financial services industry, so protecting the data is part of our bread and butter. We co-locate systems for most of our clients.
If you want more info on us, our services, our data center, etc. please reply off-list.
Redmond, Washington's Microsoft corporation today signed a deal as a part of their antitrust suit settlement for a record $1.5 billion worth of Macintosh hardware and software from Apple Computer. This purchase is supposed to go to schools, where the majority of WORKING systems are already Macintosh computers anyway. When asked about the deal, Microsoft's iconic despot Willy Gates replied "I go way back with Apple, so I figured I would throw them a bone. This is just a slap on the wrist anyway, so why not give some of this to charity?" No word on whether or not Gates was referring to the schools, or Microsoft's sometime partner Apple computer as the charity. Apple Computer's iCEO, Steve Jobs, was unavailable for comment, but is rumored to be in satisfactory condition and recovering from the shock of seeing the Purchase Order in a Bay Area hospital.
I did a quick browse and came across this. They sell everything from funnel cake machines to commercial candy apple makers, not to mention several sizes of cotton candy machines.
It might just be easier, however, to just use one of these.
There once was an engineer named Paul,
Who had a hexagonal-shaped ball.
The square of its weight
with his pecker, plus eight,
Is his phone number, give him a call!
If you are mechanically inclined and ambitious, you CAN make your own car that runs on grease if you like. Here are some good links on converting a gas cars into pure electrics or hybrids like the Insight. More links here.
On a tangentially related topic, for the slightly eccentric there's info on "performance" electric vehicles here. The world record holder's page is here. 8.801 seconds in the quarter on batteries, and the baby pulls 1200 amps. Amazing.
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It's a pity the price jumps over 2 grand with 256MB and spare high-capacity batteries.
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Funny!
Please mod this one up!
- Freed
Hell with the wimpy 5.0L SUV's!
I've got a 455 in my Buick. (That's 7.5 litres for the cubic-inch-illiterate.) Passing power in every gear, ice cold air, a great heater, and an even 11 mpg on 93 octane regardless of driving conditions. 300+ horsepower, and torque measured in fractions of a foot-ton.
Try that with a Honduh.
- Freed
Considering the retail on Adobe's Design Collection is a cool $999 (ditto for their Publishing Collection), that doesn't leave a helluva lot for hardware, even if you don't pay retail.
I'd double the budget, buy a used Apple G4 like this, and one of the Adobe sets and a scanner.
- Freed
Agreed.
I think you could pick up a comparable system at CircusShitty for about $450, and it would play games and/or run Linux to boot.
That would leave a spare grand in your wallet to buy anime DVD's (or what have you).
- Freed
... like Spam has been around a lot longer?
- Freed
Learn about a dark light here.
It was for a DBA position at an insurance company. I had a great interview, and they almost offered me the job on the spot. I got a call a coupla days later saying they gave it to someone else. He was Oracle Certified, fresh out of college, and came on about $30k/yr cheaper than I would have.
Since he was certified, they figured he was trainable enough to be worth their while. I guess they could have sent him to $20k worth of training and still come out ahead.
That is, however, the ONLY time it happened.
- Freed
I take it that you haven't yet come across this documentary on the subject.
:)
- Freed
Maybe NOW Intel can make something faster than an Athlon...
- Freed
... as working on bringing Boong-Ga Boong-Ga to market.
- Freed
... will work with an HP LaserJet 4 or 4m driver. I used to run into a lot of "unsupported printer" issues back when I was a Citrix admin. You can't make calls to fancy duplexing units or anything like that, but every printer I've personally tried could be made to print with that driver.
Another thought -- Set up an NT4.0 print server to handle it. We have some of them around here for precisely that reason.
- Freed
I didn't want to make this some sort of Ad for where I work. However, since you decided to pick my nits, here is some information about our data center, and here is some info about what we do.
- Freed
We have a data center in a tornado-proof building in western Missouri, one of the most siesmically stable areas of the country. We have generators with over a month's worth of fuel, and more redundancies built into things than I could care to list.
We mostly deal with companies in the financial services industry, so protecting the data is part of our bread and butter. We co-locate systems for most of our clients.
If you want more info on us, our services, our data center, etc. please reply off-list.
- Freed
Redmond, Washington's Microsoft corporation today signed a deal as a part of their antitrust suit settlement for a record $1.5 billion worth of Macintosh hardware and software from Apple Computer. This purchase is supposed to go to schools, where the majority of WORKING systems are already Macintosh computers anyway. When asked about the deal, Microsoft's iconic despot Willy Gates replied "I go way back with Apple, so I figured I would throw them a bone. This is just a slap on the wrist anyway, so why not give some of this to charity?" No word on whether or not Gates was referring to the schools, or Microsoft's sometime partner Apple computer as the charity. Apple Computer's iCEO, Steve Jobs, was unavailable for comment, but is rumored to be in satisfactory condition and recovering from the shock of seeing the Purchase Order in a Bay Area hospital.
- Freed
Way to tip off the world to the location of American special forces troops. Their blood is on your hands.
Idiot.
- Freed
I did a quick browse and came across this. They sell everything from funnel cake machines to commercial candy apple makers, not to mention several sizes of cotton candy machines.
It might just be easier, however, to just use one of these.
- Freed
Agreed.
Mod Parent up, please!
- Freed
Perhaps he was referring to the philosopher from Peanuts that carried the blanket all the time.
- Freed
Relavent limerick for the day:
There once was an engineer named Paul,
Who had a hexagonal-shaped ball.
The square of its weight
with his pecker, plus eight,
Is his phone number, give him a call!
- Freed
...hasn't found this number is prime yet? Won't he/she just think this 3,500,000 digit number is a bunch of gibberish?
- Freed
...gave me this.
- Freed
If you are mechanically inclined and ambitious, you CAN make your own car that runs on grease if you like. Here are some good links on converting a gas cars into pure electrics or hybrids like the Insight. More links here.
On a tangentially related topic, for the slightly eccentric there's info on "performance" electric vehicles here. The world record holder's page is here. 8.801 seconds in the quarter on batteries, and the baby pulls 1200 amps. Amazing.
- Freed
In my defense, Taco edited the piss out of what I posted. It was error-free when I sent it in.
- Freed
I wore a shirt the Microsoft rep gave me.
- Freed