Archive for August, 2005
Sunday, August 28th, 2005 | LiveJournal Archives | 1 Comment
Friday, August 26th, 2005 | LiveJournal Archives | 7 Comments
Well shit… Steve’s image for the lab didn’t take. I feel bad for him because I know how that feels.
Oh, and a special thanks to him for putting himself out to finish my iPodShuffle offer. Now I just have to wait for him to go green. At least I know where he lives, unlike jdogg0140!
Friday, August 26th, 2005 | LiveJournal Archives | 2 Comments
Ah, I feel things winding down. I still have a huge pile of comptuers to work on and I can’t see my desk , I can feel that it is Friday and tomorrow is going to be all better. Still need to get some Ronsonal and make sure my torches are up to snuff.
Either way, I want to get one more computer up and in service before I go home. Unfortunately, it has about 1000 applications on it. Ah well, back to the task.
Friday, August 26th, 2005 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
Friday, August 26th, 2005 | LiveJournal Archives | 2 Comments
Lurking in the shadows
The elevator was vacant except for this large board nails in it waiting to crush and impale me.
Thank God Its Friday…
Friday, August 26th, 2005 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
Well, I finally finished that machine at 8:45 last night. It was so late that 
Heather and I decided that we would go to Applebees for dinner rather than go home and make dinner or eat leftovoers. Finally got home, gave my dogs a quick pat, and crawled into bed.
I almost made it through a whole episode of M*A*S*H, but not really. I remember Heather’s laugh from time to time and wondering what joke I missed. I was just awake enough to turn off the TV, DVD Player, and light and go to sleep.
Slept really well, had a dream about an interesting prestige class for D&D (boy is that dorky). Now I’m all ready for another day.
Oh, and it doesn’t even look like that faculty member came up last night to use his computer at all.
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Thursday, August 25th, 2005 | LiveJournal Archives | Enter your password to view comments.
Fewer late nights now that I’m out of the lab
Thursday, August 25th, 2005 | LiveJournal Archives | 1 Comment
This is the first really late night I’ve had since I quit managing the lab. Today I had to get a new visiting asst. professor’s computer up before he finally snapped and started shooting people (I just found out he’s an ex-marine). Anyway, it should have been a simple process. Pull machine from the back, install archived image from the server, throw it in the office and walk away happy. I told him I’d have it done by 1:00.
Immediately upon setting up his machine and putting it in his office, it started rebooting. We started tearing down possible problems. We reimaged it, we swaped out the power strip, we swapped out the power cord, we rolled back the network driver, we unplugged the network, we reimaged it, we swaped out the mouse, the keyboard, the monitor, we reimaged it and updated patches, we reimaged it, updated patches, updated virus definitions, nothing worked. We finally decided that not only was it infected with virii, but all the images for that particular model were also.
Around 7:00 Craig found another equivalent machine in the back. We put it in place, left the network unplugged and booted it up. It appeared clean, and only a bit out of date so we moved patches over via a flash drive. After making sure we had protected as much as possible, we finally hooked up the network and started running online updates. Its still running stable and I’m about to pull a new image of it for future use. I expect I’ll be done here in about 45 minutes.
So at any rate, I finally sent Heather home because while I don’t think I’m going to be up here that much longer, the dogs have been in their cages for about 12 hours, and that’s just mean. Wish me luck, folks, it seems to be finally in the home stretch.
I think I’ve found a Nexus
Thursday, August 25th, 2005 | LiveJournal Archives | 1 Comment
there is a room in this building that I now believe is a nexus of anti-computer energy.
any machine that is placed in this room will quickly become corrupt and unable to function. at first it was just the resident machine. we pulled the machine from the room and completely rebuilt it. even now, it will not function. in its stead, I have replaced it with a new machine that ran fine in my office. now that new machine is acting just like the first.
the room is cursed.
