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Monday was a pretty normal Monday. I finished off that ticket about putting fibre cards into machines, and fixed a few problems that we had with it.
The afternoon was spent troubleshooting a SunBlade 2000, it wasn’t booting and the CPU was suspect. I had already done some work on this last week, but I think I failed to mention it. By the end of the day I had another SunBlade 2000 on the bench with me and was swapping CPU’s and DIMMs to see what was up, I ended up getting new errors…At the end of the day, I found some of the pins were bent These were giving the new errors, though seemed related to the previous ones.

The rest of the week was spent learning and writing SQL. I have been assigned a project to write this script which will look for bookings in the database which are over a certain duration. I will then email the owner of the booking that they still have this machine and if they are not using it, please unbook it.

I did also get a new system board the for SunBlade 2000, I have replaced it, but the pins on the CPU module are also damaged, so I will have to see if I can fix them, or if I’ll need to order new CPU’s…

The weekend was great. Faye came down on Friday and went home on Sunday, we had a really nice, weekend doing not much. Parents came round on Saturday too to show Faye the photo scrapbook Mum had made me for my birthday.

Monday I worked on a ticket which I had picked up last thing on Friday. It was to install four network cards into a T2000. The T2000 booked was on the back bench under a 3310 array (or something similar). Since my engineer had a genuine booking, I disconnected the T2000, put it back in it’s place and set about taking out old cards and adding in the new ones.
When I came across problems with the SP and asked for help, it transpired that the machine actually belonged to someone else…Tom had canceled the booking, and I had dismantled the config. I hastily set about undoing what I had done to some success, I emailed the original owner and apologised. Read the rest of this entry »

After having a nice week off, I come into work on Monday to find myself with a ticket stuck on my queue and a meeting at 10am about said ticket…
The ticket is to do with a new feature I’m going to be adding into our inventory database. It will basically look at how long a user has booked a system for, then email them if needs be. Read the rest of this entry »

Week off! Woo!!!

I started my time off on Saturday 31st January, I woke up at 5am, was out the house by 6:15am and waiting to catch the 7:02 train to Reading from Blackwater. Everything was good, I’d had a duck and hoisin wrap from Tescos.
The trip from Reading to Oxford was to be taken by bus. I sat upstairs and off we went! About halfway to Oxford, the bus broke down on the dual carriage way. Grrrr! We were there for an hour before another bus came, then we were an hour and a half late!
I caught the next train to Wolverhampton where I had to wait an hour and a half for the train to Aberystwyth, I wandered into town and got myself a Starbucks
I finally got to Aberystwyth two hours later than I wanted to be, met up with Faye and went home for some dinner!
Later that evening we went out to celebrate the end of exams. Me and Johnny formed a team for beer pong, wining our first round, but losing 2 – 1 in the final round. Read the rest of this entry »