Work is so boring sometimes!

During my hours of boredom at work today I worked out that our computer rooms at school each had between 15-20K worth of equipment in them!

Useless but interesting information (i thought anyway!)

Anyone else got some useless but interesting information they would like to share with the PN community?

Regards,
Toby

Is that true? I thought the school ran the cheapo stone computers?

I will find a useless but interesting fact soon

Cheap? No not us

They are very good computers Dual Core P4 2.8GHZ (Vista Ready), Giabit network cards (Very Fast with our new servers too)

Come on i need some more useless facts!

Math stuff! I just love math stuff!

Let's see now.............

I work for a security printing company. Our major customer is the US Postal Service. In other words we print postage stamps.

Part of my job as a Quality Assurance Inspector is to spot check cartons of finished product before they are released to the shipping department.

Last night, I opened a carton containing Booklets of 20 in packages of 100.

So....each stamp is worth 41 cents US x 20 stamps per booklet = $8.20

Then...are you ready...this get's better...

100 booklets @ $8.10 ea = $820.00....
40 packages of 100 x $810.00 = $32,800.00..........
60 Cartons on a pallet @ $32,400.00 ea = $1,968,000.00

That's just ONE PALLET!

We printed almost 3 billion stamps last year

I need a stiff drink

Mike

Thats Alot of Money (and Stamps)!

Its amazing how much stuff adds up to.

Where is your useless but interesting fact Matt? (do say you don't have any - i'm sure you do)

Regards,
Toby

Sorry, for the late response. I can't think of any right now... I will scratch around see what I can pull up.

Interesting stuff Mike.. so who does the accounting for all that? Looks like a tough job

*Sorry Toby *

After much scratching around look what I found!

   

Amazing how many hits we got from MSIE 5.5!

Useless but interesting!

Somebody in the front office does. Glad it's not me though because that one little exercise gave me a headache!

IE 5.5???? Makes you wonder what OS they're using, doesn't it??? LOL

Probably MS windows 95 or 98