July 5, 2015 - Setup

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Jan

This really happened. I was the only one in the office with a CRT monitor... that was going yellow... and I was hired to do graphics... :\

In another job, I didn't even get a computer and had to bring in my own...

Mr.Phox • 07/05/2015

This is just plain stupid !

Using Win 95 with a old machine is just stupid, why hire someone if you still running win 95? 20 years old software and to do design.

No budget, pff. Check where on what you spend it, and I know that you must spend it all cause they will take what's left on the next one.

But bringing YOUR com at the job is WTF? can't have the money for a com, then close down now.

Remind me of a place that they have laptop and the put a chain on it so they stay there, instead of buying desktop.

Kangaar Foxfire • 07/05/2015

I'm now working for the rival of the company I was in previously. They've been undercutting tenders of my original company for years... ....and I can see exactly why now. My computer is a piece of garbage that's only a little better than Jessie's - with Windows XP.

And it is S..... L..... O.... W..... !!!

Lord_Chaos • 07/05/2015

I think mine was made by Babbage.

Selenaphobia • 07/05/2015

Yay, a Lynx! My fursona's a lynx! :D

UrsusArctos • 07/05/2015

I like how Jessie's CRT is sitting on a phone book in order to bring it up to an "ergonomic" height.

Renzo • 07/05/2015

it always happens D: why the design department has alwasy shit as computers?! WHY?!!!

Interstate2011 • 07/05/2015

Nice work here.

What is that parody of "Windows"?

Jo Li KMC • 07/05/2015

Oh this angers me on so many levels. Sooo maaany levels... ._.

Also, yay lynx~ ♥

Jan • 07/05/2015

By the way, there's a number of little gags hiding in the details. Let's see if you can find them all :D

UrsusArctos got the first one about the phone book.

Frank • 07/05/2015

I was once an intern. I would be there for 90 days. They told me it would take 120 days to clear me for a computer. The next day, I brought my laptop

Adrian V. Nunenkamp • 07/05/2015

I see a 5.5" floppy in that there computer... gives me flashbacks of doing tech support for IE4 when it released, and a lady putting her Winblows 95 CD in said drive during a reinstall.... shudder

KyleTheFrenetic • 07/05/2015

"WindOS 95". I see what you did there. The year I was born. Tomorrow is my birthday, in fact. Hmm, as for the other gags, did anyone else notice that someone is playing Solitaire on the screen to the left? This place is almost as nutty as Aperture Science.

SierraRacs • 07/05/2015

In the first panel someone is playing solitare. Not only does the computer in panel 3 have a 5.25 drive but a 3.5 one as well. I can't quite tell if the logo on the desktop is a take on e-machines as the 'e' was green not blue as depicted.

Does the rabbit has a safety pin as an earring? Old school punk or the paperclip from old school Word for Windows.

Boe • 07/05/2015

solitaire

0netwo3six • 07/05/2015

i actually use a CRT and i'm very offended

jk, but i do actually use a CRT. not yellowing (thank god) and an old Apple keyboard. it's actually really misleading, I have a GTX 480 and 12 gigs of ram, not to mention a 32 gb cache hard drive. B) i feel like a cool customer just bragging about it

now i'll shut up

0netwo3six • 07/05/2015

also DAT INTEL PROCESSOR DOE and DAT GIRAFFE DOE

perfesser_bear • 07/05/2015

I spent the week building a new file server at home.

Now my laptop is dying of jealousy.

nerdhoof • 07/05/2015

The rabbit with a paper clip on his ear, is that to keep it from flopping down like Kevin of Kevin & Kell?

soriac • 07/05/2015

That's funny, in one of my older workplaces, it was the other way around, the graphics department had the most luxury equipment, big displays the size of a tv, the most powerful systems (heck, they even could afford some SGI Indy's and later two Octanes..), but I was stuck with an even then surplus system. Granted, I wasn't even a programmer but a sysadmin, probably one of the lowest techs who everybody thought just has to press the reste button now and then...

LarryTheLion • 07/05/2015

My experience was the opposite. In one of my jobs, developpers had the worst PCs and the designers had last generation macs.

BlueBlur62391 • 07/05/2015

Jan isn't the butt monkey for once!

FauxFox • 07/05/2015

In our research lab we still run DOS 4.0 and 6.22 on two 486 machines and a Pentium, and everything is backed up to a Travan tape drive. One of the screens on the x-ray crystallography machine I don't think has been turned off but maybe a handful of times since the early 90's, it's so burned in that you can see most of the numbers when it's turned off.

Zephere • 07/05/2015

This does not make sense... A graphics position should have a higher spec computer compared to a programming position due to all the rendering it needs. But both needs dual monitors lol

Novalpha • 07/05/2015

Well, I experience everyday the opposite...Marketing clowns get all the magnificent computers and OS they can't even properly use, and everybody within the operations (you know, those who actually change costs into margins...) run obsolete softwares on old machines...

Blinkey • 07/05/2015

I like how that computer has a 3.5" drive, a 5.5" drive, and a CD drive. But I REALLY like how the CD drive is a lighter shade of yellow. +10 points to Jan for detail

Jan • 07/05/2015

Items found: * WindOS 95 * Solitaire * 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives * CD-ROM drive of a mismatched color

No one's figured out the rabbit yet, and there's a couple more gags if you look hard ^^

Vanbael • 07/05/2015

Oh dear god, Clippy has a hold on the rabbit! D:

Porsupah • 07/05/2015

Back in 1998, my work system was.. a 33MHz 486DX. I quickly had IT forward my work email account to my own domain, and used Eudora on my Wallstreet instead. I'm not sure if I ever turned that system on again. ^_^;

Mostly, I tend to use my own PowerBook/MacBook Pro anyway - it's likely to be better than whatever's supplied, it comes home with me, and when the gig concludes, I'm not suddenly without it.

Golux • 07/05/2015

Yeah, I had this one job interview where they were all breathless about my qualifications and then asked if I could bring my own Mac. Back then, that was an expensive proposition as I'd have to go buy one. Pthht!!! Instantly knew what I would be putting up with and mentally ran for the door as I walked out.

Sorry, but both the designer and the programmer need the quad core workstation and lots of memory. Programmer might get by with a single, large widescreen monitor, but I'm in charge of spec'ing in our company and have had to use the Adobe suite on crap so they're always the most powerful workstations in the company with dual monitors.

CRT calibration and phosphor burnout. Makes for nasty output, must have good CMYK RIP, lots of glossy paper and become an expert at reading CMYK values and you can get close. If you're in printing.

Not so hot if it's screen output you're creating.

Raven Fox • 07/05/2015

Jessie's computer reminds me of the one I built from parts back in 1997. It was a Pent 2 with 500 meg of ram with a 80 gig hard drive. I forgot the gigahertz speed of the processor, I remember I put a 5 inch floppy, 3.5 and a cd rom drive. That computer, I ended up donating to a small business after cleaning the hard drive and getting a newer one. I wonder if Jessie has my old computer.

Robert Ruskin • 07/05/2015

I envy her that monitor. I miss having figurines on top of my display.

Sonic Wolfe • 07/05/2015

I do use a 15 year old system running Windows XP at my Dad's company if his Win8.1 is in use... Well my own LAPTOP is Quad-core, 16 Gigs of Ram, Duel Hard Drive, 17 Inch Screen...

WAIT! Jan did you looked under my hood ? !

LionkingCMSL • 07/05/2015

The rabbit is a shout out to Kevin and Kell, as that is not a paper clip, but a safety pin. You really have to look hard to notice the difference.

There is a missing filler piece on Jessie's 'puter, just above the 3.5" drive. That or a black tape back-up drive.

The panda is a shout out to an OS, IIRC. The giraffe could be a shout out to Scott Kellogg's 21st Century Fox.

I also like the sticky notes attached to the monitor. Hey, I still do it at times. Easier to see and remember.

Sonic Wolfe • 07/05/2015

From what I can see: Panel one, Post-it notes, someone should go learn how to use OneNote.

Jan's Black Wireless mice and keyboard Vs The mismatched WHITE mice and keyboard. (I do miss the white ones, but they do look disgusting after a month's use... Nowadays only Apple makes the white keyboards.)

Jan's computer seems using a Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 Styled system with Word from Office 2013 or Office 365

Jan used a Upside down (also flipped the yellow and blue squares) of a Window 95 start up screen

And Jan seems used a Pentium D sticker used from March 22 1993 to December 2005 with a Post-2005 intel Logo.

Lynx - Unix ? Or it could a future Max OS Codename since Apple did registered it as trademark but didn't use it - yet.

The tree lights on the old tower Red- Hard drive indication Green- Power indication and I forgot what the yellow one means...

Sonic Wolfe • 07/05/2015

Also the rabbit in panel once seems using a laptop or different computer than the others. (His/her monitor is lower than the others)

And the divider seems shorter in panel one when compared with panel two and three. I guess that would be just a minor oversight.

Dmitriy • 07/05/2015

Oh, I'm not the only one with a colleague who can play solitaire for a whole day, huh?

And... yay, lynx!

PyroFennec • 07/05/2015

CRT monitor nothing, that thing still has the big floppy disk drive. I'm amazed it's not running MS-DOS.

Wolfyjr • 07/05/2015

@Jan what animal did you base the anthro introducing them to everyone I thought it was a either a kangaroo or wallaroo due to the tail and ears but I realized the fur coloring was wrong then his feet throws either idea out the window-s 95 XP but yea I will never know your hard ship :P

GalloViking • 07/05/2015

Why does this rabbit have a pin in the ear?

ndrvr • 07/05/2015

Had in 1997 similar like Porsupah, just 2 client PCs sporting 486 processors.....for Autocad 11 shivers... ....and the "server" (storing CAD-files on a old tapedrive; notice the "" ) was an early 386 (or late 286) running on MS-DOS 3.x...

2 weeks before quitting my job there the "boss" (a snotty german) brought a new worker that couldn't wrap his head 'round the "old machines we're running" ; he ordered new stations right away on his first day of work (last week of mine in that office). I just thought "yeh, whatevs, have fun, creeps." and moved my back out there.

Jess' machine's just.....O.o......just pure agony...hugs Jess

Randolph Woltman • 07/06/2015

Jan, I feel sorry for you... bringing in your own computer to do work? Heck, in high school (which was not too far away for me) you couldn't survive a week without a computer. My mom was on the family computer a lot (working, she called it) and I was forced to use a Windows 95. Sure it was god for the most basic tasks, but when it came to something as simple as using the web, it was S-L-O-W.

But I really feel sorry for Jessie. Using a Windows 95 just to work as a designer? That must be a pain. Why would that company still hire someone if they can't even afford a relatively modern computer? There should be a rule stating designers should not have to suffer from using slow computers to do menial tasks.

If Jan feels like it, he should just rub all his software in Jessie's face... use the dual screen computer just to play movies instead of actually work...

Randolph Woltman • 07/06/2015

Also, Jan, by showing Jessie using an extremely old model computer, you appear to have opened the Pandora's box of old computer haters. Congratulations. :)

Also, is the rabbit in the first panel with the safety pin in the ear a homage to Kevin and Kell?

Mike • 07/06/2015

I know I've seen that rabbit before somewhere, the pin in his(?) ear and the grey ear tip... Oh well, at least there are two cute feline femme fatals in this strip. Jessie may have an old CRT but at least she still has a CTR, a Cute Tiger, nope, not going to finish that one... PG rating and all... Wonder if I could buy the new lady a cup of coffee?

LLNV & LLPT

Sammy • 07/06/2015

Only 16 gigs of RAM? Ewwwwwwwww...

typhoon • 07/06/2015

lynx also is a very old Textmode HTTP Browser I wonder if the Panda is a security panda, so they have Panda Security. Does the old err Graphics workstation have an actual Turbo LED?

Mr.Phox • 07/06/2015

the donkey got claws at is foots.

the old computer got a cd reader not a dvd.

the pencil older on the right and the stick it notes on the left maybe?

The giraffe should have a longer neck no?

Silverwolf • 07/06/2015

I think Jessie's computer has a missing 3.5" bay blank.

I run an AMD 8-core...but I do 3D rendering and AutoCAD. You try to short the draftsmen and engineers on computing power, you'll lose productivity big-time.

The same thing happens to graphics people...Photoshop and Illustrator need that computing power to juggle several million pixels...

Mojofur • 07/07/2015

Is one gag that there are 3 carnivores in an office of herbivores?

Jan • 07/07/2015

@Wolfyjr He's a kangaroo.

I think you guys have found the rest of the jokes, including: * Drive bay missing its cover * The turbo LED

BUT no one's figured out the rabbit yet. It's an obscure take on an (maybe) obscure character. I'll just leave it in its obscurity and try something different next time :D

Jamtex • 07/08/2015

If you have a Turbo LED then most computers of that age would have had a Turbo button too (as well as a physical power button and a reset buton and probably a keyboard lock keyswitch too)

Sammy • 07/08/2015

At one job, we had to bring our own laptops. The entire company used Mac laptops, where I and one other person had windows laptops. We had to use Python language, and a vague Python library to do our job. Turns out, windows couldn't run the Python library (I was the one who figured out the bug). Therefore, the two windows guys had to install Ubuntu onto a VirtualBox installation to do our work. I never got any real work done at that job.

WB101 • 07/08/2015

Ack... Right in da feels man.

Reminds me of a former lifetime when I worked in education. When I got there, they were transitioning from an IBM Sys 3 or such to HP 4XYZ? (forget da number) mainframes, and I recall driving boxes full of 8 inch floppies to a conversion shop located 60 miles away and bringing back tape media. Most of the staff in the office I eventually landed in were still working on dumb terminals, supplemented with 8086's constructed from cast-off parts out of the Academic computer labs. Yes, some of the key Administration offices were running on machines built from scrap parts out of the student-use Academic labs... shudder

It got so bad, that the Business Controller had to buy and "donate" parts in order to keep the Business Office machines up and running. O_O

Hmmm... I wonder if Jessie's monitor is buzzing. That would be about right... ;)

Wait... Is that Kirenenko in the far left cubicle? backs away slowly and portals away

FluffyKeidren • 07/08/2015

After many long days... I've finally caught up to the comic! Pops party poppers

Jan • 07/09/2015

Finally, WB101 found Kirenenko :3

SuperBH • 07/11/2015

So, the old Turbo buttons were pretty just 'press for instant overclock'?

I remember being at University in 1996 studying Computing, and using UNIX terminals that were black with green text, and took 30 minutes to boot up!

Mobyulus • 07/11/2015

Specced out with 16gigs of RAM? I pulled a computer out of the trash that has 20.

Jan • 07/11/2015

@SuperBH Actually, the turbo button slowed down the PC. But it was not unusual for its header to be disconnected completely when cases were reused on newer motherboards that did not support the feature. At that point, it becomes a "placebo effect" button for unwitting users :)

Mako • 07/11/2015

Jan, being a gentlefur, should spin up a VDI session for Jessie to use on the workstation of his...

Silverwolf • 05/13/2016

@Jan: I've actually gone into the higher end processors. The AMD FX9590, 8-core...has two clock speed ratings, 4.7GHz and 5.0GHz. The 5.0 setting is considered "turbo." However, this thing gets extremely hot...it's overwhelmed two liquid coolers, and a third one sprung a leak on me, so I put in a custom cooling loop that I can at least repair. It's working wonderfully. But I don't want to kick in that "turbo" function because 1) I don't need the extra clock speed and 2) HEAT.

Migmiglioli • 05/13/2016

That thing is so old that it is going yellow!

Tech • 08/05/2016

Is that a floppy drive?

Willi • 10/10/2016

two floppys actually. one is 5 1/4" one is 3.5". And upgraded to cd Rom (lighter Color). O - the Details.

my first one was an XT with DOS and 2 x 5 1/4" floppys. There were rumors of new mass storage devices. Extremely expensive with 2 or even 5MB.

Cpt. Obvious • 08/06/2017

@Jan The origin of the Turbo Button is actually a bit more interesting than most give it credit for. It first appeared on clones of the IBM PC that were able to run the CPU at more than 4.77 Mhz. Upping the CPU frequency occasionally had bad side effects. For instance it wasn't unusual that programs used empty loops to time animations and even generate sound of a desired frequency. So if the CPU was running at say 6 Mhz animations were going to be to fast, and any sound was off pitch.

What was even worse was that early floppy drives were dependent on the CPU speed. I remember a friends new PC (dare I guess it was a Compal?) coming with warnings to disable turbo before writing to the floppy or the disk would be corrupted...

Lee M • 01/11/2018

I was on a work-experience course once. The main office was roomy, air-conditioned, brightly-lit and had new LCD monitors. So of course they put me in the small, hot, stuffy, dimly-lit store room (well, more like an oversized wardrobe really) with an antiquated Windows 95 machine that had a small, green, out-of-focus CRT monitor. What's more, there wasn't room in front of the monitor to put the mouse, so I had to reach behind the monitor to use it. Amazingly, I was able to get quite a lot of work done that way.

Fortunately one of the higher-ups eventually got wind of my Dickensian circumstances, and insisted on moving me to a guest desk in the main office. Yay! The only downside was, now they could tell if I was shirking.

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