Day Two Hundred

Wow, 200 days of work fun. How did I survive?

Wireless is installed. Seems to work ok. MacBook image is nearly ready to make. Hopefully using portable home folders / mobile accounts won't be too much of an issue over the uber-wireless. We shall see.

We were evicted from our office to have it refurbished, so we've moved all our stuff in to a 1st floor class room. Bit odd being up there, but needs must. Building work on the refurb starts on Tuesday! This leads me on to my next point.....

I have decided, late in the day, to get information on how the server room is getting a new door without causing massive amounts of brick dust and thus trashing out £1000s of serverage. We'll be having a day of downtime so they don't suck dust through their air intakes, and then will be covering them with some £2.79 Homebase dust sheets which I had to go out and buy.

The "big door" between the current and new server rooms is actually going to be a standard door. This means we have to remove all the servers and UPSes from the current rack as we will have to tip it during the move to get it through the door, meaning more downtime. Rubbish.

I also discovered that the new server room will have an extractor fan installed, but NO air conditioning. This is a no no, so the business man and builder man have decided to move the current server room air con, in to the new room. Except some bright spark has set the wheels in motion to have this done NEXT WEEK. This means that the current server room, with its heat pumping servers, will be running with no cooling. FAIL. I'm trying to get this stopped as I wasn't consulted before this "lets do it now" email went out, but I don't know if it will be too late as works start Tuesday.

Our new office gets a luxurious 4 data outlets. That's 4 outlets for 3 people, printer, and whatever machines we will be working on. Who on earth spec'd 4!

The old server room gets to be called a 'workroom' and it turns out that it will be given a refurb also! This is news to me, and means we have to clear it out come the start of the summer holidays! It gets a whole 4 data points installed too. Wow. It's like 1996 all over again.

Have had to strip out all the data points in the current office areas so that the builders can pull out all the cabling next week. I've scavenged all the face plates to patch up smashed points elsewhere.

The end result will be better and more workable than previous, but it sounds like it hasn't been properly planned out. I wish whoever was in charge involved me in spec'ing out the area!

I may have mentioned this before, but our Citrix upgrade has been approved and sent off for. Hopefully a project manager should be in touch with me soon with works to commence at the end of July. Scary.

Designed and implemented a database for work's improvement plan. The concept of a database is completely alien to the staff. They seem to like to enter their details in to "find" mode, then complain that they lose their work. Of course, because it isn't MS Word, its "difficult".

Still no news on our 1gbps star network, and no fixed budget set......