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[ConTheITGuy]

It seems a lot of us have English teachers as 'other halves' (me too). Wonder what the relationship is there? Do they all despise IT as much as mine?

 

 

Andy

[GrumbleDook]

Hi

 

I am not now and have never been a geek - but fell into this sort of work when it was obvious that I was never going to become independantly wealthy.

 

Hah ... not a Geek! (you forgot the capital letter ... we deserve a capital letter and demand one)

 

 

Ah - my partner is (dare I say it) an English teacher and snorted when she read that over my shoulder - to quote "you wouldn't write I am not a Cat or an Ocelot, would you?" - so I bow to her specialist knowledge - and so would you Tony, if you met her - she has a 1000 yard stare that can quell a class of rowdy Yr10s from the other side of the building!

 

my better half is a Head of English and we often have discussions like this. Her flared nostrils are fantastic tools to stifle even the slightest hint of anarchy from yr9 boys thinking they can cause difficulties for any NQTs/GTPs in the English Dept.

 

Anyway, this is the reasoning. There are many roles in life that deserve an honourific / title. Take being a doctor. We call someone Doctor Smith, but they are a doctor (note the lower case d). Someone who is Father Micheal O'Flanagan is a priest (lower case p).

 

However, we do not have an honourific title. We are meerly Mr or Mrs or Miss or Ms. We deserve more.

 

And so I put us in the same catagory of those further up the ladder than priests and doctors. You only ever say queen when talking about a historical figure, but Queen when talking about our present monarch (this is gained from instructions on speaking to members of the royal household given to civil servants and members of HM Services) When you talk about the almighty you say God.

 

And so you should talk about us as Geeks. We are worthy of the capital letter and so we should demand it! Only then will people truly know their place.

[witch]

My other half is a software consultant who really does know pretty much everything about IT- now that can be a laugh, I can tell you!

[GrumbleDook]

It seems a lot of us have English teachers as 'other halves' (me too). Wonder what the relationship is there? Do they all despise IT as much as mine?

 

 

Andy

 

The scary thing is she has picked up a serious amount of knowledge about IT. I am not sure whether it is by osmosis, by listening to my prattle at the end of each day or what.

 

I know there are stereotypes out there that certain departments know nowt about IT but She does not fit into that.

 

The good side is that when she needs stuff doing she can do it herself with no qualms, when she speaks to software / hardware suppliers (eg IWB stuff) she has openly laughed at them when they have tried to blag ... and told them to sling their hook and the reasons why, and it means that other than the odd thing at home, I never have to look at her machines.

 

The downside is that the NM at her school knows he cannot fob her off with an excuse ... and she knows how support works in schools, she knows if she is being palmed off with cr*p. It means that she *always* wants the best kit and she knows how to use it.

[Diello]

Network Manager for a all Girls' Grammar in Kent - and my other half can use MSN and that's about it

 

there is one other female around here who dons board every so often that is linusgurlie but then nenevr met her so maybe it is just a rumour

 

Nope, linuxgirlie is real LOL

[free4440273]

"When a Technician tells you that they’ll be there shortly, reply in a scathing tone of voice: 'And just how many weeks do you mean by shortly?' – that motivates us."

 

I would simply tell whoever asked me in that tone of voice to 'shove it up the proverbial'.

[GrumbleDook]

"Don't forget that repeatedly turning the computer on and off before it has finished loading is nearly always the best fix for any problem. Should a member of the support team tell you otherwise they are obviously new and you should tell them how to do it properly.

 

"This also goes for telling a technician how to change the toner in your printer. They have probably not done it very often and will need reminding."

[beeswax]

And so I put us in the same catagory of those further up the ladder than priests and doctors. You only ever say queen when talking about a historical figure, but Queen when talking about our present monarch (this is gained from instructions on speaking to members of the royal household given to civil servants and members of HM Services) When you talk about the almighty you say God.

 

And so you should talk about us as Geeks. We are worthy of the capital letter and so we should demand it! Only then will people truly know their place.

 

can you call me queen on non uniform days?

 

beeswax

[MkII]

It means that she *always* wants the best kit and she knows how to use it.

 

Sounds like a dangerous lady!

[tarquel]

and *back on topic* [ ;)]......

 

Although not new and fragerant [or being able to spell either], I'd like to introduce myself too:

 

I'm ...er.... "IT dogsbody" in the good old way of "do this... do that... we dont need external companies to do it - you are the resident genius so you can do it all" type job description [maybe thats what it should be hehe]

 

I have a ICT co-ordinator above me who is also the deputy head and [bless him] got thrown into the IT role many moons back so I cant blame him from knowing little on IT [but not knowing what a IP address is was hilariously amusing lol].

 

As i'm only classed as ICT Support Officer [i think - on some things it still says IT Technician] I do 100% more than my job is lol network managing, setting up, yada yada yada.... We havent had a external company do anything IT-wise in years - muggins has [more-or-less] done the lot

 

I'm in the heart of wales [yes, countries do have hearts ok? lol] - u can see my sig/location for whereabouts - and have been in this job for 8 years it must be - its been so long that i forget lol

 

Side projects and spare time - when not talking to mark about work on msn lol - would be application repackaging, website stuff, repairing/building/condemning pc's outside of work, various development type things, [online] gaming,....and oh yes, watching films with my g/f / partner and going out on the 'lash' [when i can be bothered lol]

 

Did i mention moderating boards on edugeek? hehe and being active in a few other forums too

 

*Phew* well thats my life for you all on a silver platter lol

 

Cheers

N.

[SpuffMonkey]

It seems a lot of us have English teachers as 'other halves' (me too). Wonder what the relationship is there? Do they all despise IT as much as mine?

 

 

Andy

 

Funny that - I always put it down to me being a Renaissance Man and all

 

Perhaps its nature's way of evening up the gene pool....

[webman]

Hi everyone

 

I've been a technician for 2 years, until I was moved over to the (temporary) role of "Website/VLE Manager" in my job for "numerous reasons".

 

I live "up north" in a town called Newton Aycliffe and travel to Bishop Auckland (few miles) to work in a medium-sized 11-16 secondary school.

 

My colleague, boss, and friend is on here too under the guise of "bossman" and should make an appearance shortly.

 

Nice to meet you all 8)

[immacolata]

Hi all,

 

Thought it was about time I stopped lurking and this thread seems like the ideal place to 'come out' so to speak.

 

I have been ICT technician at a primary school for 3 years although I am currently off on maternity leave until early next year so I'm using this site and others to keep myself up-to-date while I'm off.

 

I can identify with others comments about being IT dogsbody and having an ever changing job description I have laughed heartily at some of the stories on here, it's good to know I'm not alone

 

Cheers

Immacolata

[papalazaroo]

Hi everyone

I have never joined a forum before but this one is just too good miss out on. What a fantastic resource.

 

I have worked in a High School in Tameside near Manchester for over 2 years now. My official title is Network Manager but anything with a plug on seems to fall under my remit. We have 5 servers - approx 200 desktop clients - 60 laptops - a wireless network and all the usual stuff. Dropped RM about 18 months ago and went Win2k3 server and fully xp pro, being MCSE, A+, network+ e.t.c certified I wasn't too worried and haven't looked back. I have 1 technician who also looks after the web \intranet\vle side of things. I look after both curriculum (is that how you spell it?) and Admin networks and look forward to being actively involved in the forum in the future.

[griffin]

Hi everyone, I'm the Network Manager / Senior ICT Technician at a girls school in south east London.

 

James

[webman]

I have worked in a High School in Tameside near Manchester for over 2 years now. My official title is Network Manager but anything with a plug on seems to fall under my remit. We have 5 servers - approx 200 desktop clients - 60 laptops - a wireless network and all the usual stuff. Dropped RM about 18 months ago and went Win2k3 server and fully xp pro, being MCSE, A+, network+ e.t.c certified I wasn't too worried and haven't looked back. I have 1 technician who also looks after the web \intranet\vle side of things. I look after both curriculum (is that how you spell it?) and Admin networks and look forward to being actively involved in the forum in the future.

 

Welcome on board, papalazaroo

 

Your set up sounds similar to ours though we still have RM CC3 and I'm the website/vle person at the moment (pushed into by management & governors). Finished website and we don't even have a VLE yet I'm sure "Should be able to twiddle your thumbs in both directions" wasn't in my job description when I started :?

[Michael]

Hi everyone,

 

I've been an ICT Technician for 5 years, managing a 2000/XP network at a Junior School in Birmingham. I recently became qualified as an MCP and slowly working my way up to an MCSE.

 

This is day two of me joining this forum and I think it's great. Friendly people, good advice and a general positive atmosphere. Good to meet you all - Mike

[russdev]

Hello to all our new members wlecome aboard

 

feel like i should some 60's american tv character from an old little american town

 

"well howdy there stranger what can we do for you, have a some peacon pie..."

 

anyway

 

Russ

[Dos_Box]

Agreed Russ. Welcome all, The current take up of the site is wonderful and 6500 unique hits yesterday shows that we are getting noticed by interested parties far and wide.

[john]

Hi i'm John, I work for an independant school in North Craven, North Yorkshire. Worked there for just over 16 months, prior to that, I spent 2 years working for an LEA school 2 minutes down the road. I also do consultancy work for a couple of the local LEA primary schools, with one just agreed to undertake a £7K IT refurb at Easter.

[fooby]

Hello,

 

My name is Graeme, i'm the assistant network manager for a pretty hefty network now. I have pretty much brought it from Windows 98 to WinXP office 2003, exchange 2003, everywhere. With loads of clever group policies. I also have setup veritas backup 9, symantec ghost, altiris 5.5. Recently just setup an IIS6 php mysql server with joomla cms, phpbb2 (with ldap / active directory authentication) and moodle (with ldap / active directory authentication)

 

This site looks good, If I hadn't found it, (after icttechnician.com) I would have setup my own anyway

 

Graeme

[Dos_Box]

Welcome guys. We are still the origional and best

[GrumbleDook]

Original? Nah ... IIRC the original was a BB used by BBN and 2 of the Unis they were hooking up.

 

Then again, they created ARPANet so they had the power to set things the way they wanted ... RFCs came out of the need to share information between groups, to create and develop standards, and not forgetting the plain good old fashioned need to communicate in a friendly manner.

 

Or just have a bit of plain fun :-)

I refer the honourable collective to http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt

 

Just think how different all the ineternet might have been if the guys starting it all hadn't wanted to play so nicely.

[dodgydave]

Hi there,

 

Im dave and I am an ICT Technician working for a school in leeds. In addition to the school I look after 6 primaries and, by way of useless facts, I am the only ICT Technician I know that is qualified to drive 500,000 tonne behemoths around the worlds oceans.

[russdev]

not behemoths but bleieve tony is/was qualified to drive few for army

 

if he can found the way

 

Russ