Some days in IT.

Started with a 5am wakeup after a bad night’s sleep. Then an hour and a half of waiting for a 2 minute code-push. Couldn’t do my part until the Unix team and DBAs finished. Things went bad for them. So even after I did my part it couldn’t be verified until it was the exact time to wake up normally to go to work.

Today and tomorrow are free training days though. Should be a good thing. Windows 2003 Server upgrade training provided by Microsoft. But this is a high intensive training course, no hands-on at all. High pressure lecture. Roughly a five day training class compressed into two days.

But, once again, as in every single computer class I have ever been in, there is the one person who everyone wants to beat upside the head. It seemed like every point made he had a mostly irrelevant question. At one point the topic was about how you can do driver rollback with certified Windows drivers. He goes on a five minute rant about how he used nVidia, or maybe it was ATI, latest greatest video drivers and he went to roll back, and it got stuck halfway. Somehow he missed the part about it needing to be certified drivers to work correctly.

But what took the cake was when he questioned the following statement three times: Windows 2003 Server comes with 20 new command line tools. He wanted to know how you get 20. We all started laughing because there was a list of twenty new command line tools right on the screen. Somehow we finished what we needed to complete today.

One of the first courses I ever took was a one day fasttrack for Windows NT 4.0 workstation years ago. 11 l33t hax0r types, and one guy who never should have been there. We only got 1/3rd of the way through the class that day. And it was a one day course. Halfway through the day the instructor just flat out told the guy to shut up and don’t say another word. That was one wasted Saturday.

Please, if you’re ever in a technology class, save the questions that only you care about until after class. If you need clarification on a certain point that was just made, thats one thing. But don’t spend five minutes describing some situation that happened to you once in your environment, when 20 other people from 10 different companies just want to whoop your ass and leave early to go home.

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