Its been a great week so far. Sunday, I ended up heading with a couple mates to Cantebury Leagues for some snooker. Having not played in nearly a year, I somehow managed to win, finishing off all the coloured balls in one turn. Not being a gambler or been on the pokies in nearly 2 years, I put 5 dollars into a machine and came out with 14.85. Great win for me. Me and one of the guys headed to Dooleys for a free dinner (for members, every year, around the june/july, they put 50 dollars of credit onto your membership card, which is great for free food).
Yesterday, there was a lot of running around which was great. On the weekend, we had the big clean up in the switch room. So some peoples ports were disconnected by our errors or if they weren’t there or in our database. There werent that many, but enough to keep me busy all day. Of course everyone would blame the work we did with the network for any other problems they had. I also had a meeting with my boss about the new database he put me on. It was just to clarify a few things, because what I had understood of the requirements was not what he was trying to say. Misunderstanding. That was solved after that meeting.
So today, we didn’t have any more calls about the ports. Instead I was kept busy fixing up the stored procedure, and it now works fine, but there will be some adjustments along the way as the database owner will update the excel file with more columns and more data. We also set up 8 computers today, which was a great effort. 3 MacBook Pros, 1 MacBook, 2 Dell Latitude D620’s and 2 Dell Desktops. One thing that carried on from monday was an iBook G4 which had an error everytime the computer booted up. It was a “kernel panic” where it gives you a screen which tells you to reboot. We werent able to boot an external HD, werent able to boot in target mode either, and of course couldn’t boot long enough to back up any data. So now its at Taylor Square Service Centre being fixed. It should be hardware related but sometimes kernel panic happens when software updates occur. So we shall see about that one.
This evening I also installed my new stacker.. well its second hand, but it works a treat now. I did get a scare when I plugged it in and it wouldnt eject the cartridge. The head unit said error 1. There didn’t seem to be a manual eject anywhere either. I thought I had bought a dud. I took the whole stacker apart and was able to free one of the cd trays from the drive and it then worked a treat. They do say in the manual to not have the trays in different slots… Bit hard to picture until you see it, but this wasn’t the case, it just to happened to get caught behind the arm that grabs the tray out. So now I’ve got a stacker again! Now I’m waiting for the link unit which is taking longer to arrive from Melbourne than the stacker which was from WA.
Written by Milton Lai