marcushnk's Journal: Betrayal! :-[

Got screwed over by my manager today, all because he couldn't keep his mouth shut.
Well. lesson learnt.. I'll not be fwding info through to him again, and he loses out on a very well informed Sys Admin.

I'm a bit pissed with IBM and their Laptop range these days.. I'm trying to keep a standard of "A" series laptops out here and the bastards look like they're going to drop the A seires thinkpad and the closest thing I can get is G series except that that model thinkpad wont plug into a docking station. x-[

Had an interesting chat with one of the IT staff in Vancouver today (via sametime), this person makes the Corp It manager sound like a total wanker..
Wouldn't surprise me.. but seeing as I haven't met him yet.. I'll reserve my judgement (as important as it is :-P ).

I'm hanging out for my new PC thats on its way atm.. Should be here at the end of the week..
Spec's :
Aluminium mousepad M2, by Lian-Li, anodized bare-metal finish

Black 3.5inch 1.44mb Floppy drive, Teac

Luminescent USB Mini Keyboard, blue-backlight

UV Cable kit - 1each Rounded clear FDD & ATA133 IDE cables w/UV cold cathode

Albatron FX5600P-Turbo GeForceFX5600 128mb AGP8x Video card, 3.3ns, 8-layer PCB w/TV OUT & DVI out

Rounded ATA66/100/133 IDE Cable (clear/shielded), 100cm long, 80-pin, 3 connectors

Codegen 6074 black MidiTower case w/stealth CD ROMs, window & fan in side, 350w, USB/Audio/Firewire

Athlon XP 2800+ Barton core

Asus A7N8x Deluxe Motherboard

KINGSTON 512MB 400MHZ (PC3200) DDR MODULE

Black-Anodized Thumbscrews for cases (not Lian-Li), 10 pack

3.5" Black Bay w/2x USB & 1x Firewire, blue-lit LCD monitors 2x Temps and Fan RPMs, with alarm :-D I know its dorky (read : Geeky) to get exited about these things.. but I love technology :-D

May have a problem with the new Kyocera photocopiers/printers on site.. on some machines the drivers are causeing issue's.

I'll look into it along with the myrid of other shit I have to do.. *sigh* never enough hours in the day is there?

A friend of mine just told me that one of her friends 18mnth old baby died by drowning in a nappy bucket :-(
I'm not normally effected by these sorts of stories.. but this strikes me as a very sad event.