So, how's your Summer going

[Zoom7000]

• Friday - Get married
  

 

Congratulations!

[Gatt]

@Zoom7000 - Cheers

 

Well got another suite up and running

benching and Pcs back in another - that just needs re-networking and then imaging

Final IT suite needs benching and PCs putting back - should get it done by wednesday now

 

Finally got WDS to multicast - 30 PCs done in an hour

[googlemad]

I'm glad I booked Thursday and Friday of this week off. Weekend in Brid then back to work for a week then a week off

[Sylv3r]

One caretaker is off on sick and the other is on his holidays so I am the main key holder next week - just as well I have nothing better to do

 

Up to now things have gone to plan with what I had planned to do, new resource centre and ICT support office for the 2 technicians has been handed back, now need to dust everything down in the server room and put everything back into the ICT Support office.

 

Technology cluster with just the cabling contractors to finish then I can put the new machines in, likewise in the Training centre and just need decoration completed in the pastoral suite so I can the computers setup back for them.

 

Had a play with the new SIMS Learning Gateway but a lot of tweaking still needed to get it ready to go for September

[FragglePete]

Well, it was going well.

 

Part of my image was Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0. Installed it, tested it all seems fine.

 

However, teacher came into today and mentioned that IE crashed when he viewed a PDF file off the internet.

 

Bit of research, dug up this:

 

Jay's Journal - Bug in Adobe Reader/Acrobat 9.0 causes crash when the user's Application Data is on a network share.

 

Unfortunately because of the new-ness of the software we are unable to provide you with a direct solution to this issue as all solutions are experimental at this time."

 

Great! I'll now have to create a Prism Package the removes 9.0 and put 8 back on. Tsk. Didn't affect my logon, but does affect Teachers and Students due to folder redirection. Nice one Adobe, taking lessons from Capita?

 

Pete

[OverWorked]

This is not so much what we have to do, and what we have achieved so far, as what you do with contractors who say they'll turn up at 09:30am Monday, but in fact don't show their faces until midday Wednesday.

 

I've had the opposite problem. I've been alone in school, the caretaker's been on leave. Still I've got contractors turning up unannounced expecting me to sort them out, give them access to areas, tell them what jobs need doing.

 

They turn up with no appointment and give me awkward looks when I can't help them.

 

Besides that, I've got a lot done. Now I'm off for two weeks.

[Ric_]

• Still making virtual machines, with sporadic periods of shouting at the distributor (who will remain nameless for now) who has still not swapped these incorrectly delivered parts
  

 

Still waiting for parts and the Summer is almost over! Oh how you will chuckle when I tell the story and name the distributor. Of course the distributor probably won't chuckle when 8000 EduGeek members specifically ask not to use them.

[googlemad]

8 working hours to go (7 if you exclude the lunch hour) until I'm off till September 1st :D

 

It sounds such a long time away!!!

[torledo]

just had a new three-phase ups installed for feeding the server rooms - consumer unit, switched isolator, vertical pdu's...the works....it looks fantastic.

 

All i need now is a couple of metred PDU's and to get some bod in to sort out the earthing/bonding of our kit, server racks and overhead cable baskets. But that lot can wait until next year.

 

Everything else i need to do for septemeber?, well let's just say it's going right down to the wire.

[ssimstar]

Well, my summer is very tranquil. The reason for that is that my bully of a line manager has given my job to the out-sourcers. I've had my second breakdown since June 2006 and I'm pretty sure that they'll try to fire me soon. Apart from that, everything's great!

[JJonas]

My summer has been pretty good just got back from two weeks paternity leave after my wife had our second daughter.

[mrbios]

My summers gone fairly well, we've reimaged and recabled our media room

 

Ran network cables to a near by classrooms

 

PAT tested 1 building

 

Dismantled about 8 blackboards (not our job but hey the maintenance guys are useless and we needed them down in time for interactive boards to go up...that clearly makes it our job :/)

 

Setup new iSCSI eonstor in place of the old one and setup the old one with 2TB of space for media storage

 

resetup the DFS as it was seeing various strange issues

 

Generator for our server room going in this week

 

And about 100 other little jobs that arent really worth noting here as it would take me all day to think of them

 

Overall we're on top of everything, could possible do with an extra 1/2 week or so to get everything ship shape but what can you do eh?