The Damned World

Today i spent almost all the time on the new Epson Projector that the department bought recently. Although the projector has many types of connection, the staffs here wanted to use the USB. And how unfortunate as it is the only connection that fails to project anything from the systems here.

The responsibility of troubleshooting lies on my shoulders. I read the damn instruction manual several times without any solution. I called the technical support helpline but they themselves are unsure of it and told me that they had bring the issue to their engineers and are waiting for their replies.

It seems apparent that the job of the Epson Technical helpdesk staffs were just inducing patience to the customers and push the troubleshooting job to the engineers at the background whom you cannot speak to. Why not just get rid of the Technical Helpdesk and put the line directly to the Technical Engineers.

Other than that the IT personnel whom i am filling in for, doesn't answers his phone when problems, that only he knows how to solve, arise. He reminded me of the definitive army term called AWOL.

Seems like i am in a pinch.

A little update on what i am doing. The past few days i had been busy completing my permanent part time jobs assignments. It was quite heavy that i hadn't have time to think of what to blog.

This week though, i found another job. I will be in NUS for 2 weeks covering a IT technician who will be on leave. It wasn't the everyday temp job that i found as this is something that require Information Technology Expertises. Something i have never done before.

It is my first day today and i hope everything will be fine and peaceful until the end of next week.

Holidays is ending in about 1.5months time. i just hope to make as much money as i can so that i have less worries about finances during normal academic school days. Times are tough, i can't find a fix 3 months temp job and had ended up in these miscellenious 2-3 weeks temp job.

Oh boy, i hope this bores nobody. Hopefully i something more interesting and favourable will arise.

Yesterday I was playing with my Nokia and while I was connecting to the wifi for updating, I realize that they had launched a new service.

It is an app store service. Well if you don’t have a clue about what it is, let me explain.

Mobile app store has been the most successful service with Apple products. The iPhone and Ipod Touch has been phenomenally popular and successful because of the Mobile App Store. By just using your device to connect to wifi without needing any other systems, you can download the applications, games and many other stuffs some for free and some for a price. There are also trials which has limited functions.

Apple brought out the Mobile App Store and made them successful as applications make their device expandable rather than the story stops after you bought it. Of course there are rooms for you to spend and them to earn. Of course you can get their Apple Software Developer Pack to start creating your own Apple applications and sell them through the App Store. Apple would pocket a share though.

After their successful story, now Nokia also has their own app store known as ‘Ovi Store’ and I also saw that LG had launch theirs too.

Things keep getting interesting.

My contract at Tuas was extended last week for a few more days as they wanted us to do more things.

To speed things up and avoid one of us from idling while the other was using the laptop, we requested for another computer.

Guess what, they gave us this..

What a grandfather clock this thing is.

Pentium 4!

It even has a prehistoric 3.5mm floppy diskette drive!(i think that was what it's called back then?) And a rudimentary cd-rom drive which is only good for music cd and nothing else.

The antique was running on windows XP and it took 7mins and 36secs to load up the user and password verification prompt and another approximately 3 mins to get itself to a useable condition.

USB slots. Probably the most advanced part

Consolation