[Specialagentjim]

Alrighty, after a meeting with Tom Mitchell (Dell's State of Florida Education rep), who is btw a great guy, we've got 26 machines coming in with these specs: Dual Xeon 2.4 ghz 512k on-die cache FSB 533 (I think thats the FSB...), 1 gig of DDR, 40 gig and 120gig HDs, ATI Fire 64 Meg video cards (I made them redo the quote 3 times to get a CAD-class video card ), Gigabit network cards, DVD+RW drives (okay..so that was just a brag...), and 19" CRTs for all of them coming in. Those are all for the visual computer modeling class (which btw, with a class like that, can someone please explain WHY I did the animation mostly by myself???)

We're also getting 53 p4 2.2 ghz machines for the proggramming lab and electronics lab..but im thinking of installing hte max server renderer on tehm as a service, and render overnight on those when no one's using them.

Also, we're getting 3 Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers. Two are going to run my Windows 2000 Active Directory Services and one is going to be an application server. Ill probobly deploy the backburner manager to that also.

Then, we're getting a Network Attached Storage Device with 3 146 gig hard drives, SCSI 320, all raided together. With any luck at all, this will also be on a gigabit network (we also have fiber optics running through our entire building).

So yeah...thats what I'm up to...

(Btw...our plans for this building got soo cool, that our reps started bringing their friends from the office to our meetings to see what we're doing...)


All i have to say is :