Kastang Ramblings of a Geek

First Day of Work

Today was my first day of work as a Network Tech (Assistant) for my Local High School District.

Today was really an interesting day. The highlight of the day was inventorying and unpacking 60 laptops. All laptops had to be scanned and inventoried into an Excel spreadsheet. It was very easy to do considering we used a USB barcode scanner that automatically linked up with Excel. Everything had to be separated into separate boxes: Power Cords, Floppy Drives, Firewire Cables, CDs(4 Disks per Laptop is just a waste really), Booklets (Straight to the trash). It's amazing how much room 60 unpacked and open laptop boxes take up. All the boxes had to be flattened out before throwing them away. I am now a box flattening pro.

Other highlights of the day include being able to work with an Ubuntu server, I installed Wine on the server in order to get a windows based monitoring program running on it. I am happy they are at least toying with a Linux distribution and not just sticking with Windows servers. I have experience with Ubuntu so I am happy I am able to help with some issues that arise. Also, I got to go on a few tech calls through out the day. They were interesting.

I also have a desk I get to use in the tech room, It has a laptop and docking station with 2 - 17" monitors and a compfy chair. I am not sure how much time I will actually get to use it though. I was kept very busy today.

I am hoping the 6 weeks I will be working there stay as interesting as it was today!