Where did the Time Go?
Posted by Trejkaz Mon, 09 Jan 2006 01:29:00 GMT
It’s been about a month since my last post, and some of you were probably wondering what happened.
Well, to sum things up, our company’s office moved. A week or two were spent packing lots of things into small and large boxes.
The week between Xmas and New Year was the office break, the three days in-between being paid for by the company as special paid leave (meaning that it didn’t come out our annual leave, WOOHOO!) The week was largely spent at home, sweating from extreme temperatures. New Year’s Day was 44°C, and unfortunately being in Sydney for so long has made me a bit uncomfortable with that sort of temperature, whereas in SA it was quite common to have temperatures over 40°C. As our computer room insulation sucks, I was unable to do anything on the computer, so most of the time was spent in the lounge room in front of the fan, playing Animal Crossing: Wild World and watching videos.
The week after coming back from the break was spent unpacking a bunch of stuff from all the boxes, and leaving about half of it still packed since it will probably be thrown out. Telstra and the company wiring up our exchange have been going back and forth, laying the blame on each other for things not working. Telstra were finally twisted into at least wiring our four lines up to the IDF, but they refuse to go the rest of the way even though the technician was booked to do exactly that. The delays meant that last week was spent without any net access at all, and we didn’t even have desks to put our computers on until last Friday.
This week, I discovered that my work computer just crapped itself over the weekend. I guess it’s the motherboard as it won’t get past the initial VGA BIOS message and I already tested it with a different video card. There is a silver lining, though… this hardware failure serves to accelerate our acquisition of the new desktop hardware, which will be some nice Athlon 64 X2 dual core systems. These systems will be rather interesting, because our software isn’t even tested on 64-bit hardware at present, and isn’t particularly efficient on dual-CPU systems either. I hope to get some interesting changes done to our loading process to make it get better usage out of this kind of hardware.
So that’s what’s been going on. Things are largely back to normal now, although the office isn’t set up properly (cables running over the floor still and the firewall machine randomly dying every now and then) it’s enough to work for now. And, you know, enough to post weblog entries. ;-)