SixTimesEight

school is officially back in session… after 10 years

August 22, 2005 – 10:27 pm

Today was the first day in ten years that I have sat in a classroom. I have to take Elementary Algebra, cause I forgot everything I knew about math. The credits don’t even count towards anything.

My instructor is full time active duty Air Force, and he teaches this one class at night. He was nowhere near prepared since, supposedly, he had no idea he’d be teaching it until last Friday. He struggles with the english language. He’s fairly passive which I would not consider a strong point for a teacher.

I think it’s his first teaching experience as well. He kept checking the clock and he appeared very nervous. He skipped over several fundamental points in the curriculum and confused a few of my classmates.

Anyway, after the quick refresher today, I think I’m going to do well in at least this one class. Now there’s just the matter of those other three classes. Intro to Programming is tomorrow night and Michele is in that class with me. That should be a good time. Wednesdays it’s math again. Then I have American Government distance learning and Biology online.

I had a decent day at work. One of our clients just moved into their brand new $11 Million building. They outsource all of the technical fields seperately. So one guy built all of the PCs (except for the server which is our department), then another company ran all of the cat5 and we come in last. We installed a brand new 2003 Small Business Server, created user and computer accounts and put all of the PCs onto the new domain. Then there’s the tedious task of configuring each PC for it’s user’s specific email account in Exchange and adding all of the delivery rules.

Thankfully, Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition has the server side rollout feature. Every piece of software should have that. Pull up the admin console, select your client and install Norton. No one even has to be logged into the remote PC for the install to work. It’s beautiful.

I played with a damn network printer for about 30 minutes trying to get it working before I resorted to a cable test and found out that one of the wires on the punchdown was loose. This is why you don’t outsource everything seperately. The guys that put in the cat5 appearantly didn’t bother to do much testing and I had to clean up their mess.