Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[BantamFan4Life]

I like to think of us as a bunch of frizzles

They're so cute! They look like a cross between an owl and a mushroom XD

 

[Chicken Ladies]

Deb, glad to hear you are safe.
How has everyone's week been. Mines been busy.

 

[chickisoup]

Hi chicken ladies!!!

LOL! that sounds EXACTLY like my week! Crazy! But I'm loving it. Gorgeous weather, beautiful fall colors, geese cruising low overhead as they come off the river and out of the fields and launch themselves south and tons of 'excuses" to be outside to enjoy it. Harvesting, canning, cleaning out the gardens and coop, all the things we do to day goodbye to summer and prepare everything (and everyone) for the winter to come.

Hope you and all my BYC friends are being able to enjoy it too!

 

[ronott1]

Deb, glad to hear you are safe.
How has everyone's week been. Mines been busy.

This week was the start of the fall quarter at UC Davis. It has been very busy for me--I am Computer Support for the English Department. It is amazing how many Faculty forget how to use things over a summer....

I was very tired last night for sure.

 

[chickisoup]

This week was the start of the fall quarter at UC Davis. It has been very busy for me--I am Computer Support for the English Department. It is amazing how many Faculty forget how to use things over a summer....

I was very tired last night for sure.

Hi Ron!
I remember those days well! I was computer support for an entire large, what you would probably call a community college, in the late 80's and early 90's. I particularly remember the summer we put those ugly IBM pc's on everyone's desk and connected them to the mainframe. When all those teachers came back in the fall they were NOT happy campers to say the least! It was an entire year of doing "Lunch and Learns" for them and sending teachers to "grab a cup of coffee while I fix this for you" so they wouldn't see me put the plug back in they kicked out or flip the switch on the monitor. Oh, and the old Microsoft 2.1 guaranteed my job security!

 

[ronott1]

Hi Ron!
I remember those days well! I was computer support for an entire large, what you would probably call a community college, in the late 80's and early 90's. I particularly remember the summer we put those ugly IBM pc's on everyone's desk and connected them to the mainframe. When all those teachers came back in the fall they were NOT happy campers to say the least! It was an entire year of doing "Lunch and Learns" for them and sending teachers to "grab a cup of coffee while I fix this for you" so they wouldn't see me put the plug back in they kicked out or flip the switch on the monitor. Oh, and the old Microsoft 2.1 guaranteed my job security!

Yes, It does have a lot of job security!

Campus switched to a new wireless hot point called eduroam. I have had up to 5 people a day needing help connecting to it. My Boss reminded me that I would have a job as long as I wanted because stuff like that built in job security.

 

[chickisoup]

 

[BantamFan4Life]

 

[perchie.girl]

@ronott1
and
@chickisoup

I rode that computer rollercoaster ride from 8088 till now.... home computer was my first. But after that I had to use office computers and you guys were my heros. I was the one in the office that was the poster child for breaking a software.... Hardware part i had only a few problems mostly when technology changed. a Quick chat with an expert (one of you guys) usually got me up and running again.

Especially when I was balancing three operating systems and about ten passwords. I had a ring of password sticky notes rimming my monitor just to log in in the morning.... PC with windows capable of opening a portal into NT... Computer dedicated to UNIX next to it... Running Oracle for database, Solid Designer which needed Unix (at that time). .... Running Me10 on NT eventually Solid Desinger went over to NT... Yay. and All that ... I had to run down the hall for print jobs. Or down to the basement of a high rise building for the D and E sized printouts....

they had a Xerox vendor setup a print shop down there... only place we could print in color.

All at around the years of the Cell phone Brick...

IN the 2000s we were still relying on hard wiring for interconnection though wifi was making its inroad... Now I am using ONE computer to do it all. Windows NT was gone, (though I liked it alot very robust) But now I am working with Oracle and SAP and HUGE spreadsheets for compnonent analysis.... SAP didnt like Oracle and visa versa so I had to compile information from Oracle for input into SAP... Drawings AND Oracle database had to run through a checker via submission through SAP... and a Data manager made by Solid Works. We had extensive classes on the subject my last year... and I was the very first that sucessfully submitted a project through the process. called PDM....

All the above spans twenty six years and about five jobs...

deb

 

[ronott1]

@ronott1
and
@chickisoup

I rode that computer rollercoaster ride from 8088 till now.... home computer was my first. But after that I had to use office computers and you guys were my heros. I was the one in the office that was the poster child for breaking a software.... Hardware part i had only a few problems mostly when technology changed. a Quick chat with an expert (one of you guys) usually got me up and running again.

Especially when I was balancing three operating systems and about ten passwords. I had a ring of password sticky notes rimming my monitor just to log in in the morning.... PC with windows capable of opening a portal into NT... Computer dedicated to UNIX next to it... Running Oracle for database, Solid Designer which needed Unix (at that time). .... Running Me10 on NT eventually Solid Desinger went over to NT... Yay. and All that ... I had to run down the hall for print jobs. Or down to the basement of a high rise building for the D and E sized printouts....

they had a Xerox vendor setup a print shop down there... only place we could print in color.

All at around the years of the Cell phone Brick...

IN the 2000s we were still relying on hard wiring for interconnection though wifi was making its inroad... Now I am using ONE computer to do it all. Windows NT was gone, (though I liked it alot very robust) But now I am working with Oracle and SAP and HUGE spreadsheets for compnonent analysis.... SAP didnt like Oracle and visa versa so I had to compile information from Oracle for input into SAP... Drawings AND Oracle database had to run through a checker via submission through SAP... and a Data manager made by Solid Works. We had extensive classes on the subject my last year... and I was the very first that sucessfully submitted a project through the process. called PDM....

All the above spans twenty six years and about five jobs...

deb

Windows NT, Current version is called Windows Server 2012. I had to set up two new servers this summer to replace two Windows Server 2003 systems. They are used for some old websites, print server, DHCP and file backup using a program called retrospect.

Server 2012 is a lot like Windows 10!