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Huh? Oh, I knew you were there. Really.
*ahem*
ok... here we go! Welcome to Plan Nine's virtual tour. Below you can
see pictures of our facilities, and if you click on a small image, it
pops up and becomes a bigger image. Magic, I tell you!
No? Oh
well, it sounded neat... so check us out, and come back soon! We'll be
adding action shots and who knows what else to this page. On the right,
you will see our shrine to Han Solo, patron saint of the self-employed.
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Here you see the dimensional nexus point
that acts as an interface between your dimension and Plan Nine's. A
non-descript brick ranch affair out in the country, far from
prying eyes. We obtained our lease from the Gallifreyan Realty
Co., specialists in transdimensional dwellings, which eliminates
recurring space problems.
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This is Abraham, the Plan Nine company car.
Abraham is a vintage 1974 Lincoln Continental Mark IV, with 20,500
actual miles on it. Abraham has many things
not found in today's cars, such as a 460 V-8 engine,
a 4-barrel carburetor, a 25 gallon fuel tank (which empties with alarming
speed), a solid steel body, and
6,000 pound curb weight.
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This is Plan Nine's production area, where
most of the books are put together. You can see our three main
printers (from left to right) an HP-8000DN, an HP-8550DN, and an
HP-4500DN). We use the 8000 for our B&W work, and the other
two printers for our color work. The color pages you find in your
bonus stories are all produced in-house on these printers, as well
as the Sluggy mini-books. The production computer is a Dell
Power-Edge 300, running W2K and PageMaker 6.52+.
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These are Plan Nine's main servers
(left-right) Kiki (Compaq Proliant), Criswell (Pentium-I clone)
and Dobby (Dell PowerEdge-300) All are running NT 4.0 and are used
for production, archive storage and backup. A Dell Web Server is
being added running Linux, which we will start
training on this year.
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Here is our shrine to St. Clint of Carmel,
patron saint of building security.
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This is our shipping area where the books are
pulled and sent out to you. In the background you see a world map
on which we keep track of our
progress in world domination.
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Stacks and stacks of books waiting for you.
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A recent picture of Frietag, the Order Troll,
with his morning coffee. Frietag is checking inventory before he
starts the day's work. And before you ask, no, the slippers are
not Bun Bun slippers. They were a present from Bun Bun, two
distant relatives who owed him money, if I recall correctly. Some
of you may question whether a bath robe is appropriate business
attire for a publishing company. The answer is yes, it is,
especially
for this publishing company.
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Our shrine to St. Trudy, patron saint of
collections. She handles all our deliquent accounts. Strangely,
since she took over the job, we've
had no deliquent accounts.
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