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Originally posted by jaguar
I'm wondering what kind of firm has a quad xeon server lieing around but is too stingy/small jsut pay you...I mena its not exactly your average spare workstation.
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Oh, I wouldn't say that they were "stingy" or small. There was a disagreement as to whether the work was part of "contracted work" or something that we'd agreed to work on in a "partnership" sort of arrangement. We thought it was the former and they thought it was the latter.
When we looked back over the documents, we both acknowledged that it was a bit vague where this particular work fell. So, we decided to accept the machine in lieu of payment and, this way, both sides are happy.
The machine in question, BTW is a quad 550MHz Xenon with 1GB of ram and 4 - 9G SCSI drives in a RAID-5 configuration. Pretty nice, though I wish the Xenons were clocked a bit faster.
The reason that they had one sitting around is that they are (well, were) a hardware manufacturer and 550's are pretty slow compared to what they actually USE these days.
