The Red Brick Times

My main job today, at least to start with, is to install an operating system on two slightly older Compaq desktops. 500Mhz/256Mb RAM, more than adequate for their intended tasks. Problem is they’ve been around and have had several users over time. We’re talkin’ viruses, spy ware, crappy programs installed, the works. A week or so ago I started to try whipping them into shape as is but quickly realized I was wasting my time. These guys needed to be reformatted and started from scratch. So I’m doing that (even as we speak, sortof) then I’ll config a new router I just bought, network everything, and have the whole shebang ready to plug in to the company’s Canton office next week. This is actually kind of boring work for me but the cool thing is that I’m doing it at home! I needed broadband internet to patch the new OS’s (among other things) and have that here. Plug the Compaqs into my home router and away we go. I’ve never been able to work at home before. Nice. Because of this my very first order of business this morning was to buy some speakers to plug into my spiffy new laptop (I got these - amazing for the money). I mean hey, I might as well make the most of the situation. So here I sit, ‘putin and postin’, with the great radio paradise (my favorite ‘net station by far) playing in the background. Gotta love it.

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