Last days

The electricity issues continued. At some point whole mixed zone were without electricity, which was noticed in the news also. Finally we found the reason behind electricity issues in Main Media Center: The electricians changed the three-phased supply and the distribution box and after it everything worked smoothly.

Few times we needed to reboot our firewalls, otherwise we mainly monitored everything is working smoothly. Of course every morning we tested table groups, wlan and printers before anyone else was there. That way we had time to react if something wasn't working. Fortunately for everyone, everything worked smoothly whole time.

Tomorrow we will start dismantling everything!

//Mira

Testing soon!

We have iWeek* going on this week which meant most of the students were taking part of lectures and workshops. It took a toll of students available for today's tasks. Luckily we still managed to do quite much!

We are almost ready with all the configurations, so today we started moving everything to competition area. All of the switches, power plugs, cables, wlan access points and basically everything else were carried in the Main Media Center and Sub Media Center. Now it is time to test them in real life! 

Our systems will be tested in Finlandia Hiihto in the beginning of February. Exciting! 

//Mira

*iWeek program is open for all IT students and the programme is included in the regular program of the specific study groups. 

Guest lectures from partner institutions give lectures and presentations on the following topics:

• GAMING
• VIRTUALIZATION & CLOUD SERVICES
• INTERACTIVE WEB
• INTERNET OF THINGS
• CURIOUS CREATIVES

Program consists of lectures, workshops, networking. You will also learn about the student exchange possibilities in our partner institutions. 

Quiet day

Last day of autumn semester. Since this is school project and students need credits, we had morning full of self- and peer evaluations. This autumn we had four different courses included in this project. Each course had different aspect of used technologies and it was delight to realize how many things can be combined into one project.

We had courses about pfsense, Zabbix and naturally the practical course. Courses were designed to support each other and in my opinion, they really did that. It was beautiful.

Now we start enjoying our well-earned holidays. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! We will continue in the first week of January. Hopefully enthusiastic and rested.

//Mira

Google it.

Things are surely speeding up. This week we finally started putting wireless network together and testing it.

Three of us spent Wednesday evening by trying to figure why pfsense didn't work as it should. Some issues occured... Even installing pfsense was difficult! Luckily we had music. As my usual style - I was dancing around and trying to help the guys, light the room up with my smile. But when pfsense started to give screens like below, we decided it's time to go home.

Our setup on Wednesday evening.

Thursday was also fun. We had the same playlist, but way more people around. One of our teachers were leading the second year students with testing wireless access points. It was amazing to see how he encouraged them to look things up from internet, google things. It's surprising how many issues can be fixed just by googling the solution. You just need to know what to look for. And that is one of the things this school teaches us - how to find relevant information on our own.

IT field is changing fast and the things you learn in school are probably useless when you graduate. It's kinda sad, but there is also potential. School is not supposed to give you direct answers, it's teaching you how to survive later. It took me over 3 years to realized and accept that.

//Mira