Work was suitably
interesting today. The computers (see
here) that were dropped off yesterday had to be stripped, reconditioned and have
OSs installed. I opened up each of the machines, and immediately blew out
that cruddy dust you get in computers - you know the stuff, that
mutated hair/dust/grey stuff that always makes it through your
air filters. And I am not talking about a small amount. I am talking a
huge mound of
gunk.
The glamourous side of I.T., systems assembly, then ensued. The three PCs weren't impressive, and I find out:
- They removed a large amount of the hardware
- They replaced the hard drives with smaller ones
- Two of the three PCs had faulty memory installed
- One of the PCs had a faulty floppy drive
- One of the PCs was a 486 DX/100 and thus useless
- They left a large-scale SCSI card and a good hard drive in the remaining good PC
Overall, the SCSI card and SCSI hard drive were worth it. And probably more than the remaining hardware put together.
I also got offered three
undergraduate uni students to come work, for
FREE, for a year. They were described as "good third year
Computer Science students". Thats
funny. Funny because I am a "fifth year" Computer Science student, but I am still doing second year subjects - full time work and part time study, plus a years
deferment to work...
They might be smarter than I am...
But I have experience.
And management capabilities.
That, and I am a good boss.
And a fast learner.
Q: What makes a road broad?
A: The letter 'b'.