This is kind of a personal entry, but it gets to technology eventually. I had an absolutely super day at work today. I overslept and woke up at about 6:36 AM instead of 6 AM. It seems my alarm didn't go off which was not a good thing. When I arrived at work, the phone by my station had the forward light off. The administrative secretary is gone this week so she wasn't able to switch it. I really hate answering the phone. I'm not exactly a people person over the phone. Probably why no one calls me and I'm not allowed to call anyone. I called the help desk three times asking for help on the forwarding, followed the instructions perfectly and no go. The third time my call went unanswered.
After all that, I was told by the assistant principal the network was down. I did a few checks and indeed it was. I called the help desk again and was told someone was already on the way. The guy arrived and the T1 line was down (it didn't even transmit power). I had to show him which T1 line was live because all schools are supposed to have at least two connections, but we have only one at our school. Anyways, he called AT&T to see what the problem was, and I guess they immediately called Qwest and blamed it on them. AT&T provides our service but Qwest owns the lines. I hope Qwest goes bankrupt soon so that they can get bought out by someone that knows what they are doing. Qwest actually sent a guy down as well which was a first since they've never actually cared before for the internet access. The guy confirmed it was a problem with the line and left to go down the street to try to fix it.
Meanwhile, we have absolutely no access to the internet, email, or worse, SASI, our student information database program. The PCs are also pretty much dead because Office is stored on the server and it took 15 minutes to log into the barely working server. You could also not print from the PCs because we have a Novell network and the PCs have to go through the district servers and then back to the actual printer at the school. Macs can print fine. On an aside, I really hate that the people that actually work at the school (me) cannot configure or name printers on the Novell network. Normally the printers are named by room so that someone that isn't me can easily find out where the printers are and can choose which one they want. But because we have moved a lot of printers around, it seems the namer and configuration person is getting lazy and just naming the printers after colors like red, blue, yellow, and green. One of the printers is a color (crayon) printer and the rest are monochrome printers.
The secretaries and other office personnel really need access to SASI and the server. All the students schedules and other information is on SASI and people often come into get their kid for an appointment or something and need to find out where their child is. With SASI down it requires looking through a 500 page book with printed schedules that is extremely out of date since it was printed 3 days before school started. One of the parents came into register their kid as a new student but we couldn't without SASI so we just had to tell the student that she'll have to start on Thursday instead of tomorrow (Wednesday) not that she cared since it meant she got an extra day of school off. Another person had since came down from the district and they were trying to figure out why the computers were so slow and why one of them said INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE all of a sudden. They repeatedly asked if I had installed anything recently and when they spoke to each other, they'd first look around to see if I was there, as if they were going to blame the slowness on me. They seemed to completely ignore the fact that every computer (Mac and PC) was configured to always have a network and the computers would fail miserably when there wasn't one. This was also the most likely reason why the server died and they were basically wasting their time trying to fix it. I mean, all these problems occurred sometime soon after the network died. No one has been using the computers since then.
So basically I had nothing to do today which made me feel extremely guilty. Even more so after I read Jamie's post (odd url). She did so much today and I just sat there waiting for the end of the day. When I went home, the network was still down and the two district guys had left to "monitor our situation" from another school.
Oh well, I'm just glad a new South Park is on tomorrow. Although I wish that someday Unsanity is mentioned, for bad or for worse, any publicity is good publicity. I love how South Park is "almost" live. Sometimes it's even more live than shows like The Daily Show, David Letterman, or Jay Leno since I've heard that these shows usually aren't done until maybe 7 hours before airtime. IIRC, Leno and Letterman are filmed at 3pm and TDS is filmed the day before. Still, there is nothing like standing in line at Safeway for about 20 minutes waiting for someone to reboot their computer for the next day.
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I too had a very boring and slow day. Where i actually wanted to do some extra work. "It is just one of those days, where everything is fucked, and everybody sucks." nobody came into my area of the store to bug me ;(
Posted by: h3kuow on April 23, 2003 2:32 AM