Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Thursday morning at Steineke Hall

Ahhh - I'm back in good ole Steineke Hall at Saudi Aramco. Almost like like a university dorm. But, there are improvements this time: an HD TV in the room, and a desktop computer. It took a while to get the computer to work, but now all is OK (for a while).

They have bought thousands of new PC's, monitors, keyboards, etc here. That's good. But all the monitors and PC's have digital video ports only - so my little tablet PC does not get to hook into the beautiful 19inch LCD monitor in the room. And, by the way, none of the existing data projector units work with the new PC's, because they only have analog video ports. That caused a problem in class, but we solved it with a conversion cable. I was the PC tech guy, not the IT guys.

Now, I need one of those cables for by room at Steineke. Sounds like a trip to an electronics store. But that means going off camp (campus), and I have no wheels. So, more logistical planning!

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