btornado's Journal: More Dell Fun Today

So, this is my first journal entry :). I am 17 years old and a senior at Bloomington High School North in Bloomington, Indiana.

Every day, 4th period, I have a Senior Internship. For my internship, I am going to the public library, and work with the technology geeks there. I chose the library because I already work there as a circulation page, and I'm really familiar with the building and a lot of the people.

Well, the quality of the computers at the library really vary, but they are usually down in the shitty to actually decent range. The best ones they have (prior to the new Dells) were some older P4 1.7 GHz Dells that they got in about 6 months ago.

Well they just ordered some new Dells about 3 weeks ago, and they just arrived in the past few days. These are equipped with P4 2.25 GHz chips, and 15" LCDs. (The older Dells had 17 or 18" LCDs which were much nicer :)). The 15" LCD, even tho it is smaller, just doesn't stand up to the bigger LCDs they have. The text is a lot fuzzier, and turning on ClearType just makes it worse.

I have only seen one of the new Dells, but I am told that they are all in, so today I'm probably going to be setting some up. The techies at the library are kind of Windows freaks (not to say that I'm not), and they have been installing new XP builds via the remote installation feature. Unfortunately, I think this required a service pack for their server (hehe).

In other news, I am the webmaster for the North web site. I didn't actually create the design, but I maintain the site and do busy work for them. I have an Independent Study class that I do all my work in (that's where I am now).

So, enough ranting, I think I'm done :).