Oh happy day
Today was quite the day. We had our first big presentation at work, which was a bit scary but went well. We had to present to our second-line manager, who was in town (from Germany) for a little while and decided she would schedule an hour for us to present the project to her. For several reasons, my team (with no input from me) decided that I would basically do the whole presentation and they would each chime in only a minute or two (the presentation lasted an hour). The fact that I was basically representing the whole team made me a bit more nervous than the fact that it was a second line manager, but thankfully she was pretty laid-back and everything went well. So that was one good thing.
Then later in the day when I got back from lunch, Warren (my department's manager but do to an odd timing in my hiring not my official manager) called me into his office and told me that I did a really good job, which was nice of him. We chatted for a little while and then all of a sudden he asked me what my plan was for the next year or so job-wise. I told him that I in a perfect world I would get my Master's and then go right back to working where I am now, and that I would really love to work there during my next few semesters if I could. He said he was glad to know that and he would talk to Jeff (my official manager) about it. This is very encouraging, and boy would it ever make my financial situation a lot more solid for the next 9 months.
Then we had an IBM intern barbecue which was cool because it was getting paid to hang out at Bowdoin Park and eat free food, plus I saw a surprising number of people I know from Marist now, and it was nice to see them.
When I got home I decided to take advantage of my momentum and see if I could get Nina's wireless working. Her card had no drivers and we had no idea what it was but wireless is really the only convenient option for her given our apartment's setup so I decided to buckle down and see if I could figure it out. Then I realized that I bet Windows can tell you the PCI IDs for a card and fortunately I was right. The device ID was 8180 so tada it's a Realtek 8180 and that was all set. The only thing I had trouble with was it kept asking for IPs outside my network range and since my DHCP server wasn't being very intelligent it was getting them and then of course not being able to communicate with anything, including the router. I fixed this though. Read on for the exciting conclusion.
Finally, I decided to master the configuration of dnsmasq (dns/dhcp server running on my router) and make it use static configuration for selected computers so that any computer that I plan on having on my network regularly will always get the same IP, and also make it so they can communicate with each other using hostnames, not IP addresses. This wasn't terribly difficult, because the syntax is quite simple, but I'm still proud of it.
And tomorrow's Friday. :)
Then later in the day when I got back from lunch, Warren (my department's manager but do to an odd timing in my hiring not my official manager) called me into his office and told me that I did a really good job, which was nice of him. We chatted for a little while and then all of a sudden he asked me what my plan was for the next year or so job-wise. I told him that I in a perfect world I would get my Master's and then go right back to working where I am now, and that I would really love to work there during my next few semesters if I could. He said he was glad to know that and he would talk to Jeff (my official manager) about it. This is very encouraging, and boy would it ever make my financial situation a lot more solid for the next 9 months.
Then we had an IBM intern barbecue which was cool because it was getting paid to hang out at Bowdoin Park and eat free food, plus I saw a surprising number of people I know from Marist now, and it was nice to see them.
When I got home I decided to take advantage of my momentum and see if I could get Nina's wireless working. Her card had no drivers and we had no idea what it was but wireless is really the only convenient option for her given our apartment's setup so I decided to buckle down and see if I could figure it out. Then I realized that I bet Windows can tell you the PCI IDs for a card and fortunately I was right. The device ID was 8180 so tada it's a Realtek 8180 and that was all set. The only thing I had trouble with was it kept asking for IPs outside my network range and since my DHCP server wasn't being very intelligent it was getting them and then of course not being able to communicate with anything, including the router. I fixed this though. Read on for the exciting conclusion.
Finally, I decided to master the configuration of dnsmasq (dns/dhcp server running on my router) and make it use static configuration for selected computers so that any computer that I plan on having on my network regularly will always get the same IP, and also make it so they can communicate with each other using hostnames, not IP addresses. This wasn't terribly difficult, because the syntax is quite simple, but I'm still proud of it.
And tomorrow's Friday. :)
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