Thursday, April 23, 2009

HAVE JOB! (also Elonex and Twitter fail)

Following on from my work placement I'm starting work on Tuesday.

I'm working at the place where BLAG grew and I expect I'll be spending half my time at least during the first three months in a Big Yellow storage unit going through about two thousand machines sorting those that will post from those that will not and generally inventorying....

I'll be a bit of an authority on the Dell Optiplex range in no time 

The other sides to the job should get real interesting once we get the incoming backlog under control....

The Elonex, now received after previous post) has turned out to ba a slight fail, but not in the way I expected.... Battery is fine and life is as expected for a netbook (around three hours casual use).  However wifi is a pain in the ass and reception is far weaker than I expected.  This is key for netbook technology.... Also the linux on there is locked down.... it's OK so far as it goes and can at least be used as a very low power way to check email, make casual internet queries, and leave an IM client up if I want one.... But I think I am going to have to invest again for my mobile computing requirments (luckily I can maybe afford to now!).

Also I removed Twitter from this blog 'cause it started asking for a log-in, pain in the ass and if you ask me Twitter is a bit up your ass anyway!  I'm only using it extremely occasionally (which is not what it's meant for)  Sometimes I like to browse the Jack Schofield twitters, so I'll probably keep the account on - though I suspect you do not need an account to browse others - must look into that...