Flashes of Panic

It looks like they’ve hired a replacement for me. If you’re still shopping for work in this end of the state, though, it looks like his company is hiring (and it’s too early for them to have known he was leaving, so that’s at least two jobs.)

I’ve discovered that the competing pressures of maintaining thirty-odd machines while minimizing the amount of used parts kicking around have led me to some interesting solutions.

A very simple example: At least two machines need to be upgraded from 256 MB of RAM to 512 MB of RAM. The simple solution might be to buy two 256 MB sticks of RAM. However, it turns out to be slightly cheaper to buy a single 512 MB stick, install that in one of the machines, remove its existing 256 MB stick, and add that to the second machine. If there happens to be re-usable RAM in a retired box somewhere, that might make for even more efficient upgrades.

I’d like to build all our boxen with at least four RAM sockets, so I can aggregate old 64 MB and 128 MB sticks into enough RAM to run WinXP at a reasonable office-machine speed.

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