Ok another day another non-dollar. =) When I got here today Nick and I had a great talk about the school's website. It seems that rather that just using basic HTML to create and maintain the site, he prefers to use PHP. This allows for much more in-depth, dynamic pages. It also allows for password or IP protection of certain content on the site. He uses an editor called Crimson Editor rather than notepad. No WYSIWYG used here! He likes Crimson editor especially for its syntax highlighting. You can go into any page and choose the coding language you want highlighted from a drop-down menu and BAM you have color-coded code to search through.
Well the lightening saga is far from being over. Today it seems the effects from the strike are still being felt. There was the blown port yesterday and something today is terribly wrong. The reports would come in waves about every ten -twenty minutes that the network was down. When we checked however there wasn't a problem. Nick and I were in the server room as he "brain-dumped" on me about virtual machines/servers and IP assignments, suddenly all the4 lights went CRAZY and we saw the problem when it happened. It's a funny thing about technology issues; they are very similar to problems with your car. You know the problem exists but when you get it to an expert to take a look it works fine. UGH! I know this frustration from both sides of the fence. Since we were lucky enough to see it when it occurred, Nick's wheels started to turn. He started going through the network looking for the source of the problem. He finally narrowed it down to one computer and a Port 427 error. When we got to the site of the machine he first checked for viruses and ITunes files(Port 427 somehow, sometimes associated with I-Tunes?). As he worked we talked with the computer user about what she had been doing before the problems began, we discovered that she had plugged in a cable she found lying on the floor under her desk. The problem was the cable came from the same switch she plugged it into. OOPS it was a "router loop" as it's called. It was hard for me to imagine, but this one cable plugged in wrong was taking down the entire network every ten minutes or so. We discussed how it was sending out packets every 10-15 minutes to wait for a reply. Each time it would time-out and try again. CRAZY! So it seemed like the lightening but it was human error.
There was also a breaker box in which the magnet was effected by the lightening strike. It was humming very loudly and is scheduled to be replaced.
Well that's it for today. Until next time... =)
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