I thought I’d regale you with a tale of three hours spent sorting out a client’s home network.
One of the techs was sick this week, so I inherited this callout. I have been to this client before, and his printing has been an issue before – more on that later on. continue reading…
Yup, the last Friday of every July is Sysadmin day.
To all the System Administrators out there – from the webmasters to the network technicians and even down to the techies fresh out of whatever-it-is-they-study-these-days-to-be-able-to-slot-a-hard-drive into a PC without screwing things up.
Happy Sysadmin Day
Now, go and put someones browsing history on the company file server. You owe yourself that.
Yes it is true – IT Support can fix a lot of your issues remotely these days. Provided you have some sort of a connection to the internet we can get to your computer and fix most problems.
SOFTWARE related problems.
I had the joy of going to a client that is very far from us, three and a half hours drive – in fact. Three hours if I pull our bakkie over my knee and spank it hard before getting in.
I decided to make Monday Multimedia Day. Just for fun.
The first Multimedia Monday will feature my desk as it is on an average work day. Hectic, I can promise you that.
Look, I am a patient guy. About as patient with non-geeks as a geek could be. So at the school where we installed the wireless network these past few weeks I generally enjoyed a pleasant rapport with the resident non-geeks.
Where I AM having problems though is with those who are better equipped than most to work with computers and networking, but who just don’t care to implement sensible practices or take responsibility for their property. In this case that would be the network we installed.
Right, I haven’t blogged in a while.
Working at Interexcel has really taken up a lot of my time, and I made a point of not touching the Laptop after work during week nights to ensure that I spend time with the family.
To add to my time away from them I am in Mafeking fairly regularly these past few weeks, and I had the pleasure of spending two days with a colleague and buddy of mine.
While working on-site we hatched a scheme to spoof the office from the site. It needed to be creative, epic and deniable. After a bit of throwing ideas around we hit on the perfect scam.
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Right now I am fixing a friends WinXP box. The reason for me venturing back into Windowsland? A mysterious file called btkrnl.sys.
So I managed to boot into safe mode with command prompt, now I am doing a chkdsk.
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Fiddling with my Hardy laptop this morning I ran into a bug. I decided to browse launchpad to find out if a report has been submitted already. I sorted them by importance and guess what I found! continue reading…
We have all delved into the festering underworld of IT and tech. I have been there many times – and have tales to tell.
My one favourite comes from a time when I was still an IT techie working in a computer store.
It involves an impossible customer, a pc, and an unexpected resident in said pc…
Quintin (154)
Raoul Snyman (9)
Kerberos (7)
Darel Philip (5)
Jaco (5)
