Failure is the Key to Success

While visiting Jo’s friend at her shop, we popped into the fish shop next door but one and bought some more fish. We have added 5 white cloud mountain minnow and 6 guppies. I think that’s it for the tank, its about as stocked as it gets. We also have a home grown baby platty that has learnt to keep itself out of the way in the plants.

It’s been a busy few evenings recently, trying to track down my people in the 1861 census. Then, when my back was turned, on Wednesday the 1851 census images appeared on Ancestry. Don’t get me wrong, this is great, but now its there, I just feel that I have to look for everyone at once. I have concentrated on the Moulden and associated branches at the moment and have added several entries and have many more to confirm facts on.

I went into the school this afternoon to resolve the outstanding issues in the ICT suite.

As expected the problems were mainly related to the Linux server (the server that I don’t support or have access to). There was a problem with intermittant Internet access, as all traffic passes through the proxy server on the Linux server, there isn’t much I can do when the Linux server plays up. There was an issue with several of the programs not running, understandable when the files are located on the Linux server that wasn’t providing access to any files on the previous visit; it was working today and so amazingly were the programs. As the Linux server was working today, I copied the children’s work onto the new shares on the Windows server and that ‘issue’ is now resolved.

I did make a mistake when I created the standard desktop for the mandatory profile on the previous visit, some of the needed icons were in the all users profile on the machine not on the shared mandatory profile; this was corrected.

Also, when I copied the QCA and RE folders from one of the desktops to the server and made them a read only version, I managed to pick a copy that had been modified and saved by the children, so all linked copies are now incorrect. Once we get the original files we will overwrite the server versions with the correct files.

I also worked with the ICT Teaching Assistant so that she understands how to maintain the mandatory profile. All in all a very productive afternoon.

I found out today that there have been problems in the ICT suite since my visit on 30th September. Needless to say, until the head made me aware of the list of issues I hadn’t been told. It’s extremely frustrating as several of the issues were in my email to the school on 2nd October and hadn’t been communicated to the staff. This meant that I was getting the blame for issues with the Linux server causing programs not to run, inability to save files, when the new areas were working fine (they just didn’t have the old data I’m guessing). I have replied to the head with a message that he can communicate to the staff and will go in on Friday to resolve the problems.

Yes, its over, I have got the MOT certificates and the refund. Until next year….

Getting closer, credit card details today for the refund