I have no clever title for this week's work. I began my week by learning important cyber security protocols that we have to follow at NASA. The protocols covered everything from making sure civil servants (NASA's name for an employee) don't use their personal computers or the NASA network for personal gains, like trading stocks or selling stuff on Ebay. I should mention how tight security is here. To get onto the NASA Ames Research Park (this is where all the private constracters have set up shop) you have to show a drivers license. Then to get onto NASA Ames Research Center (where I work and where all the NASA stuff happens) I have to show my drivers license and my badge. Then I have to input a door code to get into my office. The important thing to take away from this is that the government does not screw around with security.
We've been trying to fix an anemometer (measures the air speed) for the past week. For some reason it refuses to measure any air speeds above 30 m/s. The company we purchased the sensor from claims that it can measure speeds well above 30 m/s. While we would've loved to spend the past week running various diagnostics on the anemometer, we instead spent that time trying to access the data logger, so we only started running diagnostics today.
I've tried to get used to using a mac but they really are the most unintuitive machines ever created. My first workstation did not have a mouse with a scroll wheel or a right click, why would they even sell products like that! I could probably write an entire novel about why my dislike for Apple computers has reached the level of absolute hatred, but I won't continue this, as some consider it, hate speech.
Edit: I would also like to thank Mr.Lee for making me better at working a copy machine than a junior in college.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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sounds like you need to go back to mac school
ReplyDeleteThank you David for realizing the trend in overdone blog posts.
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