Today was a VERY busy day. My host and I went to a company called "Phoenix Restorations" (I know, i thought it was clever too). Today many of their offices were being switched around, and we were there to help change telephone connections in the server room, and install computers. Much of the computer setup was similar to what I had already done, and I set up about four machines today, but the telephones were different. You see every office has a phone, and has to provide internet to at least one computer, every room had a kind of...outlet, with one port for Data (D-1), one for Spare (S-1) and one for Telephone (T-1) and they're all connected to big switches in the server room.
In one situation, in a room that had two desks, each with a computer, the keystone for primary Data in the outlet had chipped and sunken back into the wall. My host taught me how to take off the wall cover, remove the keystone, and crimp on another one, which was pretty cool!
We were there for about 5-6 hours, did a whole lot of work, and a Glass skylight exploded in the center of the building. That was fun.
We also went to Encore art group, a printing company that he goes to every week (which, being a former visual arts student, I cannot wait to return to. He showed me around the complex, the server closet, and introduced me to employees. After that we stopped by Ingram Micro, a much larger distributor than Lin Haw, and we picked up a XEROX printer, which we will be installing at an Accurate Security location tomorrow.
When your changing connections with the server room do you have to change any of the wires to their original computers/ input devices or are they all the same? I was thinking that if they were different you could just label the wires to their appropriate devices so that you don't get mixed up.
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