So on Monday, I was told that there would be more to do on my project since it’s all out on the table. Yesterday he explained them to me. Basically an extra week of work (I hope) and it’ll all be done. I’m currently tackling one task a day and I should get it done. So following this project, I’ve got a 4 week project, and then a 4-6 month project. Sounds exciting, it really does! I have been very busy the past few days. There has been a virus outbreak and from my understanding, its a symantec vunerability, where the virus gets in, disables symantec and spreads itself throughout the broadcast. On the otherside of our routers, there is catastrophe, but luckily, broadcasts are stopped at routers. So today we were able to patch everyones (hopefully) PC with the lastest version of Symantec 10.1.5.5001. Apparently version 5000 was released a couple days ago, but it got through that, or maybe it was another one. But now we should be safe, unless someone decides to walk into work with the virus and hook it up to the network, and of course have people who didn’t do the update.
Last night, I had my first class for the year, networking 2. It was… boring to say the least. Everyone are part-timers and starting from 6 and going to 9 isn’t encouraging either. This subject is VERY practical with 45% of marks coming from the final practical exam. Setting up routers, and computers, having it broken which you then need to troubleshoot. Seems interesting, with only 20 minutes of lecture material and the rest is a lab. There are also weekly tests through cisco, which is set to mondays for 24 hours. Long semester for me. Having done Networking 1, I thought networking was where I was heading, I just hope this timeslot doesnt affect that.
Written by Milton Lai