Daily Archives: 7/18/2006

Our new toys have arrived

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So around 4pm today mine and Tiffany’s new laptops arrived. I have to admit that they are a little bigger than I expected, but that is only because i failed to realize, I don’t know how but I did, that these have 17 inch widescreen displays. Not that that is a bad thing, actually I rather like it and think it will make watching DVDs even more enjoyable. We both got a Dell Inspiron E1705 with the following specs:

  • Intel® Core™ Duo Processor T2250 (1.73GHz/533MHz FSB)
  • 60GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
  • 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz
  • Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 Internal Wireless (a, b, g compatible)
  • 17 inch Wide Screen XGA+ Display
  • Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950
  • 53 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery

The only difference between the two is that mine has a dual layer DVD burner, and Tiffany’s has a combo DVD player CD burner. In addition we each got carrying cases, mine is a back pack and hers is an attache case. We are both happy to have them and I am sure we will spend some time setting them up completely over the next few days. Now I will have to begin the process of preparing the other computers for recycling.

Power outage

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Well the power just went out here at work, first time this has ever happened on my shift in the 15+ months that I have been here. It is kind of cool, but strange at the same time. The generators kicked in just like they should, so that was real nice. The power never actually went out as we are continually running off of a UPS system, the power coming into the building first filters through that and charges those batteries. It only takes a few seconds for our generators to kick on, so all the data on our servers is fine. It was kind of nice to see our fail safe systems in work, not that I want it to happen again anytime soon though.

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