Backup Failure
Last week… last Thursday in fact, our 4.5 year old Overland LTO 2 drive… failed. That’s a big bummer.
We have no replacement. But we are looking at some options. Overland makes a 12 tape vault that can have an LTO2,3,or 4 drive inside. I feel like it is way silly to go with the LTO 2 drive, when the LTO4 gives us 4x the storage as LTO 2… but it will require a reinvestment in tape.
We are going to go with it.
Administrative Access
The boss wants to grant administrative rights to the Upper school students on their personal computers... I wonder about the wisdom of this decision. See... It seems to me that we have eliminated a good number of problems (viruses, spyware, p2p filesharing, etc. by simply restricting administrative access priviliges. By granting these priviliges to the students again, wouldn't we just be opening that same old can of worms??
I can certainly see the utility of granting such access to the students. They would be able to install home printers and other perhipherals, along with games and other distractions. Perhaps my role as Network Administrator really should be to maintain the network, not the students computers. Perhaps I really shouldn't be so concerned with what students install on their computers. It would surely make tonight easier though. The boss called me while I was at a going away party for my friends... She wanted me to call a parent and sort out their daughter's inability to install iTunes on her computer to support the brand new IPod that she had just gotten... On a Saturday evening!!! In the summer!!! School is out!!! WTF?!?!
The end of the year
I find myself near the end of another year at AWS. It is pretty impressive, the speed with which these years have passed. As I approach the end of this year, and begin to look towards the summer work that needs to be done to be ready for next year, I wonder how I will ever get it all done… One of the most impressive things to look at is the list of things to do this summer. It is pages long, and it continues to get longer as people present me with more items that need my attention.
Tacoma here we come
Well… It is decided. We will be moving to Tacoma, WA shortly. It is much closer to work for both of us. I am excited, because of my proximity to work and to my friends, but I am going to miss West Seattle a whole lot. This place is cool, hip and a lot of fun, not to mention the hot babes down ont he beach. Our house is great too! I really love this house. So… there will be a lot for me to miss, but I think that Tacoma can make up for a lot in many other ways. Like I said, being closer to work, and closer to most of my friends will be a serious bonus. Also I think a house in T Town will be a really great investment. We can still get on near the ground floor, and from there the prices are just heading up, up, up.
I will keep you all posted as we get more info.
The state of things now that the boss is gone
Where there is a vaccum it will be filled. Our boss left of her own volition (but I don’t believe that) and we got a new interim boss. This guy is cool! He is getting things done, and leading us in ways that we have not been lead in years! I love it! He is going to make us work… that’s for sure, but he is pretty great, seems fair, and will really be of great service to us before he moves on.
