Well it was another interesting week in school. The big event is that the school is getting a new finance manager. While this may seem good it means that we had to create a new office for them by converting a classroom in an extension. All well and good, however when the person starts Monday and we didn't start getting things for the office till Friday Morning you can see that there may be a problem! Mainly that we then have to get furniture from Ikea, build it, move out the old furniture then I can start the IT jobs of installing and reconfiguring the computers and telephones for the room. All told I was in work until 8.10pm Friday after a 7.30am start. Hardcore day!! on the plus side I've had a full weekend instead of having to go in Saturday to finish the job.
Church today was OK again. I came away feeling uplifted, which is the main thing I guess! Other than that its shaping up to be another fun week-lots of training to be done and lots to work on but otherwise it should be fun! :)
Sunday, 15 March 2009
Friday, 6 March 2009
A Long Pause
Well, it seems that was a very long day (Though I'd beet Saxon to the punch there....)
Work is going well. Turns out the first few days back were very hectic with all kinds of little problems raising their heads. Mainly little simple things, like monitors not being plugged in. The best is someone saying "My computers not working" me, after walking in, turning it on and saying "There you go all fixed"
Things since that have been good. I'v learnt how to deploy software using MSI files, rather than installing it to every computer using a CD. When you ave 125 computers to manage, this is a good thing!
I've also learnt how servers work and have become familiar with all kinds of things. Also I work with the children a lot, helping teach the ICT lessons in lower primary.
This week was great fun-it was World Maths day Wednesday, and because of this we set up all of the schools laptops in the main Hall to allow everyone to have a go on the website, competing with other children all over the world. IT was hard work to set up and take down but the amount of fun they had made it all worth while!
It was also a good chance to stress test the internet and wireless network.
IT was interesting to see the reports from the firewall we have. On a normal day we use about 1.8GB of bandwidth. Wednesday we used 3.2GB-quite an increase!
Well thats the highlights of my experiences so far as a network administrator. Tune in later for more exciting updates!
Work is going well. Turns out the first few days back were very hectic with all kinds of little problems raising their heads. Mainly little simple things, like monitors not being plugged in. The best is someone saying "My computers not working" me, after walking in, turning it on and saying "There you go all fixed"
Things since that have been good. I'v learnt how to deploy software using MSI files, rather than installing it to every computer using a CD. When you ave 125 computers to manage, this is a good thing!
I've also learnt how servers work and have become familiar with all kinds of things. Also I work with the children a lot, helping teach the ICT lessons in lower primary.
This week was great fun-it was World Maths day Wednesday, and because of this we set up all of the schools laptops in the main Hall to allow everyone to have a go on the website, competing with other children all over the world. IT was hard work to set up and take down but the amount of fun they had made it all worth while!
It was also a good chance to stress test the internet and wireless network.
IT was interesting to see the reports from the firewall we have. On a normal day we use about 1.8GB of bandwidth. Wednesday we used 3.2GB-quite an increase!
Well thats the highlights of my experiences so far as a network administrator. Tune in later for more exciting updates!
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