October 20, 2003
first day at work
today was my first day of my first job. my coworkers are cool so far and im getting a G5 workstation. nice.
did a lot of paperwork today, mostly just got HR stuff taken care of, got some keys (nine so far, more to come), tried to remember 500 different names (ok maybe a dozen), and almost did something computer related. it seems there isnt much to do before you have an email address, access to any systems, or any kind of computer or office of your own yet. which brings me back to the G5. so nice. dont have it yet, but hopefully tomorrow.
in the meantime, im trying to get a handle on how they run the college. hopefully ill be able to have a hand in more broad-scale stuff, not just the student labs stuff. almost everything is running of macs. xserves and G4s serve files/web/etc. they dont have an authentication system set up for the students yet, apparently some red tape with registrars setting up an LDAP or whatever. lame. anyways, i hope that working with OSX will be fun. already have copies of 10.3 (doesnt come out for a week) and apparently its pretty sweet. dont ask me how, but apparently it adds a hour of life to laptop batteries. more efficient screen drivers? dunno.
anyways, time for bed. gonna have to get used to this 8am thing again.
Posted by Steve on October 20, 2003 09:13 PM
why do you have a picture of a cheese grater posted with this entry?
Posted by: Trix at October 21, 2003 08:28 AM