Nineteen of the twenty expected new Compaq computers arrived today. (We already knew that the 20th machine was backordered. It’s okay.) They run Windows XP. I need to get them prepped and distributed as soon as I can so I can get back to the PD Streaming Project.
“But wait! No, really, wait. Sorry, Karel, but you can’t start prepping these machines until tomorrow. You see, the version of Norton AntiVirus you have isn’t recent enough to support XP. You have to wait until morning, by which time the folks at Corporate should have been able to push out the new version to your servers.”
Tomorrow morning I’ll be hitting the ground running, trying out Tapscan and the other Arbitron software in addition to figuring out the best way to install the Groupwise client. It should be… fun. Yeah, fun. Uh huh.
Oh yeah, and I’m going to snag one of these bad boys for my own evil purposes. Which is to say, I’m going to keep an XP-based machine on hand so I can learn the ins, outs and quirks. Color me strange but I don’t want to spend the next year making tech support visits where I look like a clueless newbie. I make a fool of myself often enough as it is, you know?
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5 responses to “They’re here, staring at me. Waiting.”
when are you going to cave in and put a link to the bastard operator from hell in at least one of your entries 🙂
XP isn’t all that bad. But it’s important to note that if you hvae XP Home (wich I’m hoping not) those machine won’t be able to join the domain. Just a friendly heads up. By the by, you can turn off the new eye candy and keep the machine looking much the same as Win2k, something I wholeheartedly recommend.
When they first made me get XP I bitched and whined, and I’ve wanted to bash my monitor in about a gazillion times. But it’s kind of grown on me now… if ever I sit down on a non-XP having machine, I get frustrated to all hell. It just takes a bit of prep-work to get it all situated.
Celina: Those of us who know of the BOFH don’t need to be told, and those who do not, don’t want to be.
Sean: It’s XP Pro. Whew.
Mikkie: I’m just going to keep telling myself, “It can’t be ALL bad… can it?”
I am going through the *exact* same thing. 100 new XP desktops waiting to go out, except mine are Dells. And yes, Tapscan works fine on XP… =) At least my version.