Just getting in, taking a break from what I saw this morning. I hear on the radio that the interchange at I-94/I-69 is closed, and I am about 1/2 mile from it already. To drive through and see a mangled dead guy, lying in the right lane, with what is left of his motorcycle. Quite disturbing. Nothing more to say about that...
The job is pretty clearly laid out for the next few months. Pre-configure thin-clients, about 150 of them, for a connection to 3 Citrix servers. My earlier estimate about the number of employees here was way off. There are almost 400 from what I can tell, being at only one of the three branches they manage. Once the thin clients are preloaded to have their connection automatically start, then we will take them one by one to users, and migrate their data to the Citrix servers. I guess the first thing I learned to appreciate is the little overhead it takes to run thin clients. I can why so many people are using terminal servers. Never had a chance before to work with a embedded OS like Windows CE on a thin client before. Had me a bit bewildered at first, but I picked up the gist of it after a half-hour or so.
Working with a guy, apparently that Jason knows from across the street. His name is Troy Brown, nice guy, I find that my not so subtle obscenities that slip out of my mouth might trouble him, he is a very polite, well spoken guy. He will be interesting to work with. Much more knowledgeable than me, do to his much greater field experience. He lives out in Okemos, hoping we can get a car-pool arrangement figured out some day.
At the end of the 3 month Summit Point is looking to hire someone to handle Help-Desk work. I am hoping that it may work out for me in that capacity. We will have to wait and see how that works out.
