Apr 09 2006
The Night Before…
Hmmm, it’s been a while since I posted anything here.
The last few weeks have been busy, as I worked away on my fyp. Thankfully, as of noon tomorrow, my focus will be officially changing. By that stage I shall have demonstrated what I have working, and during this week, I should have complete first draft of my report due in early May. Once all that’s out of the way, I’m disappearing off to a foreign land for a day or two to ensure most of this week is spent being idle. Who knows, I may even do something to celebrate my 0×17 birthday 2 weeks ago…
Next week shall be interesting, proper, in person interviews for real world, permanent jobs begin. Most people would be a little afraid, personally, I can’t wait. I want to leave college, I’m fed up being a broke student. Of course, I also have to study for finals, which come before any job…
On the nerdiness front, last week was interesting. An Intel iMac has been added to the systems I regularly maintain, which is a welcome change from a Windows machine. It’s interesting to play with, and I actually have to try and setup BootCamp (for accounting software).
Over in Maths, we had a minor catastrophe on Tuesday, which could only have been topped by fire, or a rack plummetting through the floor (it has been a worry before). After the central file storage RAID setup was left degraded for 2.5 weeks without a replacement disk, it fell over, spectacularly. As a result, file storage for most of our users, both staff and students were unavailable until this weekend. We lost some files, but we managed to restore as much as we could. Perhaps after all of this, we’ll get a few hot spare replacements and hardware upgrades we’ve been enquiring about.
The trouble-at-t’mill Sage-IE post was pretty horrifying. Still, 12 years without anything of the kind was a pretty good record.
Those events may or may not be connected/the same..
Yes, the 12 year record is pretty impressive. Shame it could have lasted longer…