Archive for June 30th, 2005

Yet another job role

By
Andy
 – June 30, 2005Posted in: Uncategorized

So when people ask me what I do I give one of several answers depending on who I´m talking to:

  • Web Developer (person has some computer knowledge)

  • Work with computers (person has recently moved here from the 19th century)

  • IT Manager (another manager and I´m trying to be vague)

  • Head of IT and Technologies for the Evology Group (trying to impress girls mostly)

But now I´ve given myself another promotion: Health & Safety Officer! It´s mainly cos no-one else wants to do it and we´re getting a work experience student so we need to make sure there´s fire procedures in place and what not. It´s a really boring, stupid job but someones got to do it and I don´t get any more money!

Every time I have a few days off…

By
Andy
 – June 30, 2005Posted in: Linux

… something gets blown up! Last year I went to France camping for two weeks. We managed to get through the first weekend before I got a phone call saying the building had lost power during a thunder storm and the internet connection had gone down. Back then all internet traffic was routed through the main server and this had lost power and needed to be booted again. Since I´m the only technical person in the company and the Linux box needed the etho interface bringing up so thats why I got a call. After 5 minutes of my boss not being able to log in to the box because the keyboard he was tapping away at wasn´t plugged into anything, it was up again and I was off to the beach.
 
This week I had another few days off and the last night that I was off we had another thunder storm. The lights flickered a bit in the pub but apart from that I didn´t think that anything would be wrong. Especially now that we have seperate routers, UPSes on the main servers and most things were set to automatically boot up again on a power failure. I got to work though and it turned out we had got a few more lightning problems but all that had happened was a few fuses in the power sockets had blown. They managed to sort this out by the time I got there so I just had to check what had been going on with the automatic invoicing system and get it to run off the ones that were lost when a print server was down.
 
Next time I want some time off we´re getting a 3 day forcast first.