[geeks] Help with MCSE

[alex j avriette]

> You mean it *worked*?!! :)

Erm, no. I dont have any filthy windows machines to test it on here. 
That may change in the nearish future though I guess. :-7

>> think that would work? any other suggestions?
>
> As long as it's a PII and has at least 256MB RAM it'll be fine.

Hm. Okay, this brings up a couple questions. I was thinking emachine, 
which is a celeron ghz give or take. Problem is, they go for $300. The 
pII machines ebay all seem to go for in the neighborhood of $200. This 
seems ridiculous. Any ideas how I can put together a small lan of filthy 
windows machines on the cheap? I mean ideally, it would seem to me that 
for $500 give or take, I could pull together 3 or 4 windows clients and 
maybe a faster p3 or celeron class machine to be her primary machine.

Virtual PC was suggested (I've got a bunch of macs), but I have had very 
poor results with it in the past.

thanks
alex