Today the fire bell went off, again. It seems to take an entire week to test. This coupled with a big drill/digger thing smashing up foundations of the old building led to an interesting working environment.
The new guy was set the task of adding 35 computers to our DHCP list, inventory and workgroup manager list. Come 4:30 he hadn't completed this task as he said he "had a couple of distractions" which usually means listening to LOUD drum 'n' bass and texting. He also decided to implement his own computer naming convention. We usually use . He had decided to use PowerMac or iMac, or eMac instead of just "mac". Apart from this being completely different to any machine he had ever set up, I explained that we would have to know which machine type we were trying to work on. This temporary loss of sanity was not corrected.
The Other Tech started work on our new image for our G5 macs which is preparing overnight, as well as sorting wireless on the other site for the temporary classrooms.
The Citrix installers didn't turn up - don't know why.
Upgraded our email system to the latest version, which has some handy updated features.
The data wiring people turned up today to cable our old office back up. After we'd been told to strip the old cabling, they'd been told to re-use it! This led on to them planning to re-wire the few rooms in this block from scratch....then they asked when our data cabinets were being moved. I had no idea that this was planned, so they made some phone calls and I panicked a bit (this would involve moving a LOT of fibre cable, and our Internet feed). They concluded that our two wall-mont racks will be merged in to a single 42u floor standing rack in it's current location (semi-phew). I don't know when this work will take place. but for it to start someone else has to remove some built in benching and a sink! The lack of communication is immense.
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