Damn. We were supposed to be able to book out as early as 5.30pm today, provided we got all our work done. And the work seemed pretty easy at first..just needed to complete preparations for thursday's Summary Exercise..an exercise to err...summarise whatever we've learnt so far lah. Looked like there wasn't much to do, and in fact there WASN'T...we just had to use lan cables, switches and routers to link up the network and then test for connectivity and functionality of the servers and clients by sending emails between servers and clients and pinging. We then had to create an image of the 62 DIV server and upload it into the step-up server using Symantec Ghost.
Seems quite complicated, but with some of the computer whizzes that we had, i thought we could get things all done by 3pm. Instead, we got stuck so many times because of dumbass mis-configurations and faulty equipment. My CCIS skills aren't very strong, so i doubt i alone could've found out that the network taf switches were "down", because of a dumbass faulty
auxiliary cable or something, if i had been given 4hours or whatever. In the end most of the faults were corrected using trial-and-error techniques.
Anyway, i'd just like to say that SAF computers need LOTS of upgrading. The server took MINUTES just to start up!! Gosh..and these are supposed to be among the
best that they've got..just change a few things in the domain settings and the whole system goes pfffft. Even the IS officer agreed with us. How to get the cash to do all that? Weeelll..they could always start by firing some of us...100 of us out of an SAF job would allow the horribly over-staffed army to buy, every month, 50 decent computers/servers. Maybe more. Or 30 or so pretty high-end servers. Lol. Just my two-cents. ^_-
So in the end we managed to get out of camp at
9.30pm. Because of that, i lost all my will to go clubbing tonight. And there was a party at Zouk. My friends were going. They had brought their female friends. For the first time. And tickets were supposed to be pretty cheap. Did i mention that my friends had brought girls along? Damn. Dumbass computer problems that weren't really our fault at all had cost us 4 hours of good home time (that could've at least been spent playing a good round of mahjong!!). A late, late releasal indeed. >.<
