Today I got a special task. Jason told me to remove the mainboard from a IBM Thinkpad R40 and put it into another one. So I had 2 laptops one with a not working display and one bigger laptop with a not working mainboad. The easier way when they would be the same is to exchange the display but that wasn’t the case. Here we go I thought and so I started to take apart the smaller laptop with the not working screen. After a while I decided to search for the service manual to be a bit faster and yes I was faster then. I took the motherboad out of the unit and started with the 2nd laptop. This time without the manual. After nearly 10 minutes I got the motherboard from that laptop. I compared both motherboards and noticed that the one from the bigger laptop has a longer wifi-card slot as the one from the smaller laptop. So I exchanged the wifi-card slot from the motherboards. Afterwards I put all together and checked if the „new“ laptop is working. It got power, it booted, it started windows and here is a working IBM Thinkpad R40.
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Playing the Guitar
Today seems to be a really good day. After I had to exchange some broken hard drives with Stephen in a hospital on Monday, we passed a music store (Matchetts Music). I told Stephen that I already tried to hire a guitar, because I would really like to play the guitar sometimes. I even thought about buying one but I would have trouble getting it home so I did not.
So after telling Stephen this little story he just said: „I have a guitar, I can lend you mine“. I wast just so happy to hear that and today, he brought the guitar. So I’m really looking forward to have the next four days off and to spend some time on playing the guitar.
The Hike
Last sunday I used the perfect weather to make a hiking tour. After the long tour from the day before to the Giant’s Causeway I was tired and the sunburn ached too. But I had to use the last sunny days. So I decided to went to the Mountain Divis, where I was already. In a group of four we took a taxi to the bottom of the mountain, because we needed the power for the climb 🙂
This time we reached the peak of the mountain at 450 metres. The view over Belfast is perfect and the sun burns not so hot, because there is a heavy wind. At this point there is a broadcasting station of BBC. And we’ve seen a group of horses. I don’t know, if they are wild and what they doing at the top of the mountain.
To climb down from the top was very exciting too. We had to climb over barb wire fence and slid down through thorny bushes. At the way back we’ve also seen two police officers which searched some bad people. I don’t know more but I wondered why a helicopter flew a long time over us.
After this exciting trip we bought a ice cream and went back with a taxi directly to the KFC, where we had a big dinner.
We attempted it again
Hi guys,
on Sunday we have attempted again to climb the mountain with the name „Divis„, but this time was the attempt successful.
New Week @ VolunteerNow
Hi everybody,
one of our last weeks at Belfast are been started, but it was not so much happened in the first days of this week. Well, we just went back to our old stuff of project and it’s only some new tasks for my Sharepoint project. My new tast is to design the new layout of the Sharepoint website with new webparts. This will be happened by Visual Webparts in Visual Studio 2010, so it will be programmed in C# and the .NET Framework 3.5, but I am looking very interesting forward to the next week, because we will get a new member for our team, it’s a apprentice, too. He coming from Spain and he has the same certificate like us, he succeded the CCNA certification, too. Therefore, I think that’s will be very interesting and I will get a nice chance to contact a new guy. However, I am hopefully looking forward to a successfull ending of our practical training.
Yours faithfully,
Rico Meehs
Giant’s Causeway and more
Hi guys,
at Saturday we have done a great tourist-tour. We are started in the morning to go to the meeting place. There we were picked up from a small bus, which us has driven to the „big“ travel bus.
Short story: the supermarket
I went to Mark & Spencer’s to buy my lunch. In the supermarket I was thinking of buying some more stuff for the evening so I keept my eyes open. Suddenly an old lady stopped me and asked for help. She told me that she got a message on her mobile phone from someone and don’t know how to open it. She was kind of excited because she thought that someone from her family wrote her. When I opened the message I noticed that it is just junkmail from O2 so I told her to delete them. When she saw that there were more messages she asked me if these aren’t from her family. I opened the next one and again junkmail. So I asked her if it’s a new mobile phone and she told me that she just bought it. Afterwards I explained her that it is normal for new phones. In the end she was really happy that someone helped her.
Outdoor WLAN #Update
As I told in my last post, Jannik, Damien and myself installed the outdoor WLAN. At the end of last week we get the right cable for the outdoor antenna. So we connected the access point with the fondly called fluoroscent lamp. But nothing happend. Even if we stood near to the antenna, the signal was very weak and if we went away from the antenna the signal was lost. Overall a depressing test, because the signal with the 1.5 metre antenna is lower as the ten times smaller indoor antenna. So Jannik and me began to troubleshoot the problem: cross tests, resets, configure, gathering solutions… Until now we’re not really sure what the problem is. I think the antenna and the access point are faulty. Maybe we would have spent more money to the devices. This are the cheapest devices that we had found, because Damien wanted it so. Now he will contact the distributor and maybe we get a new device. Let’s see what’s next.
Nerdy evenings
Last weekend, Oli, Tim, Tobias and I decided to watch a 13 year old film..Matrix. After all this years, this film is still just amazing. I’ve already seen it many years ago but I forgot many things so it was a good thing, watching this film again. I think I annoyed the others because I could not wait and asked them 20 questions during the first 5 minutes. But they told me that all my questions would be answered by the film and they were right. Yesterday we watched the second film, Matrix Reloaded and today we will watch the last one, Matrix Revolutions. So we experienced a decade of Sci-Fi history in a few days.
Still doing the same
Unfortunately I’m still spending time on configuring Windows System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM). This piece of software just seems to be so slow! It feels like it takes ages for the software to recognize any changes I configure. The second problem is that Matt has just little time to help me, because there are just so many other things he has to do. So I also spend a lot of time on waiting. The next step will be to configure this SCCM environment in the NIPACS domain.
There is a song, its title sounds in this situation so frustrating and true at once..Maybe Tomorrow..