Tessa had a house

Well, people will wonder (I’m just assuming that some people are actually visiting this crap and please don’t burst my bubble ;) ) who Tessa is.Tessa is a girl (woman actually) who’s responsible for feeding the staff of Tefaf. She makes coffee, cleans up our mess, makes rides to shops,you name it.Some time before Tefaf, she was in Kenya, where she started a centre for orphanages.

Just to promote it a bit, here’s a link to it. Click here, or here or there –> or –> here

Give it a visit and just donate some money while you’re at it.

(I think she is also hoping to find some volunteers, so while you’re sending your money, maybe also donate yourself. Think they can use the extra help).

tefaf 2007

Well, let’s make a real post now.

School sended me, along with 3 fellow students (the fellowship of the helpdesk if I may call it that way) to the Tefaf.

We had to deploy and manage the network there and give some it support to the users on the fair.

So far (the tefaf is almost finished) it worked out above expetations, since the guy who had to arrange everything for us doesn’t have a single clue about networks and how to manage them. The result is that we have crappy equipment, no plan whatsoever and sometimes pissed of users, but someone it all manages to keep working (only had 2 crashes).

The fun part is that without us the guy who had to lead us (the dude is actually a pc farmer (crappy english translation for the dutch “pcboer”) would have failed. The networkadressing was crappy (not enough adresses), the new equipment wasn’t tested at all, no knowledge about troubleshooting.

But back to our real work here: we had a few days with tons of things to do (second and third day 13 hours of work, fourth day 12,5 hours), but managed to pull it off anyway. After the installation of the network, we had to get all users hooked up with their account. This part was sucky to do, since most of the users were rather pissed at us (2 days behind schedule to give them a connection).

We’ve even managed to finish our hitlist (laptop that totaly refused to display a website, a crappy mac with some weird airportcardthingie, slow network connections). Now we are just sitting back, waiting for some user to come with some weird problem to solve and trying to make the perfect paper airplane !

Triangular thingie

isn’t right. Well it is right actually. Almost as right as it can be, but it isn’t placed well. Rather weird I believe.

Stupid thingie

Oranje boven

Changes

A long, long, long, long time ago in a small village far away, I wrote some stuff about the things I do while waiting to die (it takes usually a darn long time, so you just could do some fun things I guess).

And now I found some time to continue nagging about whatever I feel like.

Well let’s just start.

First of all I’ve almost finished school (thank God for that !), just have to hand in a few papers by thuesday (or somewhere around that day) and wait for the final results.

Second of all I’ve also managed to find a job. It’s a small IT-company where I can start as an it-handyman (meaning: I have to do all kinds of stuff). It’s a nice start and hopefully I can improve my skills there so maybe one day I can start to rule the world (although I’m probably too much of a Pinky to rule the world :/).
I start with a 6 months contract, after which the boss will check how well I did and give me either a new contract or a shoe up my ass.

Third of all: finally I started with driving lessons ! 5 years after most people in the Netherlands start, I followed. No need to say that it comes with the job I mentioned in the post above.

Well I believe this was it for now, don’t have much other things on my mind yet. However I will keep you updated on my driving adventure (no need saying that I also will upload some pictures after I’ve crashed my first car ;) )

Cheers !