Bad weather...
Typical south Louisiana winter weather. It was 70 degrees F at noon. Shortly after 4:00 PM, a front came through with monsoon like squalls, winds close to 40 MPH, and lightning from another world. By midnight, it will be in the lower 30's and still dropping.
Not good....
A man with too much time and living in the US's only true Banana Republic...
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Another office computer/user story...
Our office is very close to Main Office geographically, so we tend to be the pilot for a lot of things.
Recently, a decision was made to go wireless on the office networks, so our IT people came and installed a wireless router in a central location in the building. They then activated the wireless features on the laptops, told us to go ahead and begin using the router, and to let them know if anything unusual happened.
I went through the office and verbally told each one of the employees with those laptops to unplug the cables from the laptops, to use the network as usual, and to let me know if anything odd cropped up. Initially, everything worked like a charm.
Well, I had to leave a couple of hours after the IT folks left the building. A final swing through the office revealed no problems.
I wasn't out of the building more than 10 minutes; I had driven less than 5 miles from the office. My cell phone rang:
Caller: " I had to call and tell you what K just did!"
Me: (apprehensively) "ok....tell me"
Caller: " The minute you pulled out of the parking lot, K came running down the hall yelling for you. He was yelling you had to come quick because there was something wrong with his laptop. I asked him what was wrong and K yelled back (as he ran by) that he was getting an error message saying to change power sources immediately, and he'd never seen that before. I told him that when you ahd told everyone to go "wireless", that didn't mean to unplug the power cords too because the friggin' electricity doesn't go through the air! When he went wireless, he REALLY went WIRELESS!"
I went home with another headache....
Our office is very close to Main Office geographically, so we tend to be the pilot for a lot of things.
Recently, a decision was made to go wireless on the office networks, so our IT people came and installed a wireless router in a central location in the building. They then activated the wireless features on the laptops, told us to go ahead and begin using the router, and to let them know if anything unusual happened.
I went through the office and verbally told each one of the employees with those laptops to unplug the cables from the laptops, to use the network as usual, and to let me know if anything odd cropped up. Initially, everything worked like a charm.
Well, I had to leave a couple of hours after the IT folks left the building. A final swing through the office revealed no problems.
I wasn't out of the building more than 10 minutes; I had driven less than 5 miles from the office. My cell phone rang:
Caller: " I had to call and tell you what K just did!"
Me: (apprehensively) "ok....tell me"
Caller: " The minute you pulled out of the parking lot, K came running down the hall yelling for you. He was yelling you had to come quick because there was something wrong with his laptop. I asked him what was wrong and K yelled back (as he ran by) that he was getting an error message saying to change power sources immediately, and he'd never seen that before. I told him that when you ahd told everyone to go "wireless", that didn't mean to unplug the power cords too because the friggin' electricity doesn't go through the air! When he went wireless, he REALLY went WIRELESS!"
I went home with another headache....