I arrived in the office this morning to be ambushed by one of the designers, suggesting that there was a bit of a problem with some of the systems – that was in the car park. Arriving in reception, security grabbed me and advised that the camera system had failed – so far so good I thought. One minute later my world fell apart when the coffee machine steadfastly refused my request for coffee in any form, It looks like there may be some challenges today I thought, so there would seem to be a priority issue here – something that people in IT face on a regular basis.
As a consequence these problems were prioritised as follows, go to level four and get coffee – then check why the designers system fell over. Finally check what is the matter with the camera system. So off we go for a coffee, with a status update to follow when I’ve actually done something.
As this is the first post of the new year, a Happy New Year to all. I’ve been quite busy with all the usual things and having the festivities thrown in as well has just meant that there hasn’t been much of a chance to put a post here. Still I have the chance now so I should make the most of it, I’m waiting on the disk clone to see if I can recover the camera PC – but I do think that it does have a current obituary. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see, it will be finished in about 20 minutes either way. The conversation with the designer has convinced me that this is an incredibly unlucky company, especially when it comes to designers – I could resolve the crashing system problem by switching the monitor back on (presumably it was turned off by accident).
There hasn’t been much of note happening, although I have become somewhat interested in how one would go “digitally dark” – I’ll keep you posted on that as I go. Anyone who has an interest can read my first thoughts in the previous post.
Anyway, I’m now off to see how the recovery of the disk on the camera PC has gone – then of home and after that to the Pub to see my mates.