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Saturday, October 26, 2002Some notes on my lastest job interview, PC components, etc
I made my worst first impression ever for a job interview, arriving about 45 minutes late because I grossly under-estimated the level of traffic congestion around Miami at 3:30pm. I called them when I realized I was going to be late; they called me back when I was just a few blocks away, wanting to re-schedule because the most of the staff was getting ready to leave. I convinced them to let me finish getting there, figured we could follow-up next week if need be.
It seemed to go well once I was there, and I'll be going back on Monday. I'm optimistic... I've got expert knowledge and experience in most of the areas they're looking for, and believe that I can quickly learn the stuff that I don't know, mostly load-balancing hardware. They're looking to fill an extremely odd schedule, which means there shouldn't be much competition.
I don't care about working hours, so long as I get paid well for them.
Got the replacement motherboard that my dead Gateway system needs for $25.50 on eBay. BTW, that system was 6 weeks outside of the 1-year warranty when it died. Gateway claimed to no longer have replacement parts, which I'm inclined to believe because nearly every one of the boards I found on eBay had defects (mostly dead USB ports).
As much as I love Gateway's bovine themes, I have never much cared for their products and this re-enforces my low opinion.
PriceWatch shows 512MB PC133 for as little as $27. I had been holding off on buying more memory for the past year because all of my DIMM sockets were full and I was expecting to have bought a new DDR system by now. Since it now looks like I'll get another 12-18 months out of my old box, upgrading to 1.5GB for peanuts is very attractive. The replaced sticks of PC133 can trickle-down to the Gateway and my kid brother's HP.
Speaking of my brother... he turned 18 last month, gotta stop calling him kid. He started his first regular job this week, working at a mall pizzeria. I dropped by after my interview and offered his co-workers something to tease him about, which they immediately did. Our age difference meant that I could never take much physical revenge against him while we were growing up... Now that we're older and (somewhat) more mature, I enjoy every little bit of mental anguish that I can cause ;-)
Sibling rivalry never dies, nor should it!
I had to re-arrange all of my USB peripherals today. The way that Windows XP handles the situation is less than desirable, prompting for the locations of many driver-related files. Changing the location of a device should not cause Windows to "forget" that drivers were already installed and working...
And then I got this dialog:
How the hell does Microsoft not have Windows Logo testing on their own drivers? What a great example for them to set!
