Teh Work Experience

Hello and Welcome to Teh Legendary Newb Adventures (it was purposely spelt that way). this week i had work experience and i was working with Calvin in the I.T department under the supervision of our boss Pak Izule. We fixed computers and peoples laptops.

Day 1 of Learning

On our first day we chose what we wanted to learn hardware or software and as Calvin and I prefer the hardware side of I.T we chose hardware. Our first task was to write what we know about hardware. We both had a long list of things written. our boss (even though he didn't want to be called a boss) was a very nice guy and helped us if we got something wrong. Towards the end of the day we built our first computer out of a old computer that only had a motherboard and a power supply inside it. We replaced the hard drive, RAM, disk drive and it worked perfectly.

Our first fix. before shot....

Day 2 of Work Experience

We started the day by watching the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley", the movie is on how Bill Gates and Steve Jobs began there legacy as the most know names in the computing world. It is a good movie and gives people a better understanding into the world of these computing giants.

After the movie we were told to install windows XP on the old computer we made the day before. It said that it would take 39 minutes to load but it took a hour so we researched some hardware while we waited. After it was done the old computer that we fixed was completely capable of being used in a home.

The movie we watched

Day 3 Of Our Journey

It was day 3 and our water supply was low as we installed the schools software on 2 of the 3 brand new computers the school had bought, they were simbadda and luckily for us they already had windows on it. Next we had to check whether the other 15 old computers worked or not, 13 of them were still capable of usage. 1 of the brand new computers needed a different type of windows so we installed it.

2nd computer

Our next task was to create a LAN cable then a Cross LAN cable. It was a very complicated task because the wires are so small. We had to use youtube to find a tutorial with an american guy that kept telling us to fluff up then fluff down. It was exhausting.

LAN cable steps

Our next mission of the day was to install 2 programs into the school computers, the programs were Aku Shaper and Evernote. We had to do this by 4 o'clock because the school computers automatically turn off. We quickly installed all the software and had some spare time over so we installed 1 of the new computers into the I.T lab.

Day 4 of Adventure

Today we had to install the last new computer, the only other thing we could do is wait for the software to install on the 3rd computer which was going into the teachers lounge.

Boot Screen

Day 5 of our Quest

Straight into work where we installed windows XP into 2 hard drives and we had to help so many people that came inside to get us to fix there computer, in one case all we had to do was turn the wifi on and off and in another a girl was wondering why her work wasn't still open even though she hadn't saved and closed the application. It was killing my faith in humanity. We then were given the task of burning 19 CDs. It was done with minutes to spare and then work experience was over. It was a shame to have to go back to school. I enjoyed working in the I.T Department and would consider it for a job.

I will remember this experience for a very long time.

and for those that want to see the inside of a I-Mac.

There You Go..