Feb
14
Shifting the balance (part 23/52)
February 14, 2010 |
Last week was all about preparing for the Ladies’ Banquet and so we spent an evening building rocket ships and then hanging them from the ceiling in the gym (I suppose that make us Rocket Scientists…). This week we’ll get our heads back out of the clouds and our feet back down on the ground!
Although we have much of the machine complete, we’ve had some troubles connecting the Youth Console to the network shares. The other issues of preparing the 3rd Floor Youth space have made it difficult to focus on this and so I’ve arranged for Kevin to team up with Carl and trouble-shoot this early in the evening.
While they’re up to good, Fearless Leader and I will look at scripting the DVD creation process to see if we can lighten the time burden being experienced right now in creating iso files of services for on-demand DVD requests, and run a length of cat6 from the comms room to the backup server in the basement and crimp connectors in anticipation of having our backup server on the kvm switch via cat6 extenders.
Somewhere in there we need to check the BSBC-TV network. There are some reports that it isn’t functioning as it should.
With these jobs done I’d like to move our server rack from the old kitchenette to the Family Life Centre’s communications room. While it should just be matter of powering down, wheeling the rack to the new space and powering it all up, there always end up being glitches. Let’s pray not, but think carefully none the less.
Our last task for the night is to review the Family Life Centre construction plans to ensure that we have been delivered all AV/IT related components in anticipation of the building being signed off with the all parties concerned in it’s construction. This sounds like a fabulous opportunity to consider a revised shopping list to meet our needs over the next month or so. It also seems like the prefect time for donuts and more coffee, and perhaps celebrate the shift from getting started on the massive effort that has been the last six months to cleaning up the odds that niggle away at us to be remembered and completed…