Had to come to work an hour or so early this morning because that's when my ride arrived, but that's not all bad - here, I have 13 computers to play with. And they're all brand new, three or four days old. And best of all, not a single one of them runs Vista. They're all XP.
Actually, there's nothing new about the hardware but all the computers are virtualized. So the only hardware involved is a monitor, a keyboard, a mouse, and a server in the back room. Which is really a pretty nifty way to do things. Saves immense hassle. When you want new, clean computers with freshly installed software, no cruft and no freakin' Yahoo toolbar, all you have to do is make one master image and then copy it 13 times. Presto - 13 machines, entirely constructed from 1's and 0's and identically alike.
If it gets any easier, we'll have to think of something else to do.
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