Today I managed to find a very outdated config.dat for Retrospect on the backup server. I ran it up, and it was all on about copying data from servers to god knows where, so I shut that down. Oh well, the new hardware should come this week then we can have a new spanky server.
Ran out of RAM for the machines which were were donated, so I hopped on eBay to get some more. It's silly RAMBUS RIMM modules, which cost a fortune new, so I got some used and will claim the petty cash back.
Started installing TFT screens in one of the science labs. Will give them new PCs on Wednesday when the room's free.
Spoke to Sage again to finally sort the problem with spool files and the lack of disk space. Turns out the last guy set the SQL database to backup to a new file every day, which filled the drive. The Sage Man sorted this out, ditched the ancient backups and this means finance are happy.
Found a job advert at another school who want a basic IT tech to look after helpdesk and Win XP who will pay £15-£16k. I passed the advert on to The Big Boss as he thinks we can get a basic IT tech, competent with web design for £11,907. I think not!
Finally, I dragged us kicking and screaming into the modern day by starting to test Flash Media Streaming Server on Windows Server 2008. It's on a 3GHz Pentium 4 test machine with 1GB RAM, and it feels SLOW. The new Explorer interface is very Mac OS - it gives you a home folder containing Documents, Pictures, Movies and Music folders....I wonder how they came up with that?
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