Well, that was a surprise! Yeah, about an hour after I made that last entry I got a phone call saying 'Get your shit packed and be here in 2 hours."
Yeah... spent the last month in New Orleans. Whew >< 18 hour days, 7 days a week for 3 weeks (and no overtime!
) Is definately teh sux0r!
It's all good though. My skills in Geekdom have increased (243)! haha. Yeah, I went from barely knowing our satelite gear to better at it than the contractor in 3 days. Funny how you remember stuff you were taught 5 years ago when you start messing with similar things.
So yeah, we had some issues while we were out. I for the most part, I was the only network admin we had and I was supporting *all* the major military commands on our boat (ie. pretty much all the command and control was done from my boat, and while I had a few minor geek underlings, if the shit got complicated I was the only person to go to) ... Cloudy, nasty weather in Norfolk and New Orleans didn't help our satellite signal... so we boosted our signal... and the satellite company didn't like that one bit.
They threatened to kick us off so we told em why we needed the pipe so bad... they didn't care until we were like "Well, what's your name and who do you work for?" Last thing I heared as I left to go to my rack was my chief explaining that he wanted a name to put on the memo the president would see, so they had someone to blame for the whole thing. Oddly enough, when I got up in the morning, they were moving us to a different satellite...
Which one would think would be easy! Well, normally you'd hit up a web calculator, punch in the satellite, punch in your lat/long and move the dish to whereever the calculator tells you to...
Yeah, bout that. Helps when your mechanical offsets are correct! We were like, 6 degrees off horizontally, and 4 degrees off vertically.
Our night shift had spent the whole night searching for the new satellite but couldn't find it. I knew my many hours of playing minesweeper would come in handy... between that, and some Diety must've been watching over me, cuz 3 hours later, I had the bird up and blasting
Oh, BTW, when you bring a satellite transmitter up, you have to call the company you're dealing with first... yeah. Didn't know that
The next day we started getting deluged with new user requests, so I wrote up a batchfile that parsed usernames out of a text file and automagically added them to the domain. I are teh awesome.
Well, enough geek accomplishments while out there... ok, one more: bought a Canon Digital Rebel XT. GG digital camera. Havin lots of fun with it; might have something to upload in the near future.
Oh, BTW girls, I do have a good question: why would you give some guy your phone # if you already have a boyfriend? I mean, if your current boyfriend is an ass and you're planning on skipping out on him; while I think that's kinda shady, it's understandable... but why would you give a guy your number and then use your boyfriend as an excuse that you can't do anything? *boggle*
-Jason
Yeah... spent the last month in New Orleans. Whew >< 18 hour days, 7 days a week for 3 weeks (and no overtime!
) Is definately teh sux0r!
It's all good though. My skills in Geekdom have increased (243)! haha. Yeah, I went from barely knowing our satelite gear to better at it than the contractor in 3 days. Funny how you remember stuff you were taught 5 years ago when you start messing with similar things.
So yeah, we had some issues while we were out. I for the most part, I was the only network admin we had and I was supporting *all* the major military commands on our boat (ie. pretty much all the command and control was done from my boat, and while I had a few minor geek underlings, if the shit got complicated I was the only person to go to) ... Cloudy, nasty weather in Norfolk and New Orleans didn't help our satellite signal... so we boosted our signal... and the satellite company didn't like that one bit.
They threatened to kick us off so we told em why we needed the pipe so bad... they didn't care until we were like "Well, what's your name and who do you work for?" Last thing I heared as I left to go to my rack was my chief explaining that he wanted a name to put on the memo the president would see, so they had someone to blame for the whole thing. Oddly enough, when I got up in the morning, they were moving us to a different satellite...
Which one would think would be easy! Well, normally you'd hit up a web calculator, punch in the satellite, punch in your lat/long and move the dish to whereever the calculator tells you to...
Yeah, bout that. Helps when your mechanical offsets are correct! We were like, 6 degrees off horizontally, and 4 degrees off vertically.
Our night shift had spent the whole night searching for the new satellite but couldn't find it. I knew my many hours of playing minesweeper would come in handy... between that, and some Diety must've been watching over me, cuz 3 hours later, I had the bird up and blasting
Oh, BTW, when you bring a satellite transmitter up, you have to call the company you're dealing with first... yeah. Didn't know that
The next day we started getting deluged with new user requests, so I wrote up a batchfile that parsed usernames out of a text file and automagically added them to the domain. I are teh awesome.
Well, enough geek accomplishments while out there... ok, one more: bought a Canon Digital Rebel XT. GG digital camera. Havin lots of fun with it; might have something to upload in the near future.
Oh, BTW girls, I do have a good question: why would you give some guy your phone # if you already have a boyfriend? I mean, if your current boyfriend is an ass and you're planning on skipping out on him; while I think that's kinda shady, it's understandable... but why would you give a guy your number and then use your boyfriend as an excuse that you can't do anything? *boggle*
-Jason