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ABOUT THIS RESEARCHER

Created: 17th May 2001 
Greetings Froods!
Hi, I'm geek Lifson Kofiegeek . (pronounced Lif-sun coffee )

Computer tennis like on the old 'Binatone' machines
I'm a Retro-Geek - in that I'm really into computers - but mainly those good old ZX Spectrums, Commodores, and BBC Micros! I 'm in Eastbourne, (England), and have the good fortune to be a geek and getting paid for it!!!

My MSN ID is: lifson@msn.com. I rarely check the mail at this address, but use it just for messenger.

I joined this great community 17-5-01, not many days after our hero's early and tragic passing, and intend to pay tribute to the great man for as many years as time will allow me.

I love college. It's the best place on earth (Apart from IBM (where I went on VocEx.) and here of course!). Weird huh! I wrote that line when I was at college - however, about 8 months after leaving there, I've ended up back here (albeit on the other campus) - working as a Network Technician!!!

mars I also have my own website elsewhere, www.kateglover.co.uk. It is still partially under-construction, as it will always be (although not so massively so!!!). I also run a website for my local Star Trek group - at www.usspharaoh.co.ukearth


I'm Keeper of Computer Systems In Academic Establisments, and I also belong to the Musehome as Muse of Trombonists!

Spork
The campaign for a spork smiley has finally been won. The Thingite legions are victorious. We did already have a Spork *picture* (see right ->!) and before the official one, we did have a smiley-sized spork at The Home Of The First GuideML Spork. I'm going to leave the page up in a tribute to our victorious campaign. Unfortunately - the spork is only is visible in MS Internet Exploder as it's an empty table with coloured cell-backgrounds. Netscape, Oprah, any othes don't seem to show it. It won't print either. Must be said - looks way better in wonderful ClassicGOO than in errr...not so wonderful Ala*****er!!! (IMHO)

Musicians Guild Member
I'm a MuG, a member of the h2g2 Musicians Guild. The Musicians Guild is a virtual club for musicians, singers, composers, and other music aficionados at h2g2.

I joined the Musicians Guild, as a Trombonist of eight years experience, and a Bass Trombonist of two years. Also I'm a Trumpet player of a year and a half, but we don't talk about that, as it's very scary...

Also...it must be said that...

I'm a Queen Fan!!
I am a member of The H2G2 Queen Fan Club, which is a club each and every Person who has ever heard any Queen Song should Check out!
Click to visit The H2G2 Queen Fan Club.

"I want this on my page! Show me how!"

Over to Queen Fan Club

I have also adopted a fish. He was rescued from the nuclear plant. He likes the water like that.

 
orangefish                                                                       bluefish                                                     

If you want to contact me outsite of H2G2, you can e-mail me at lifson@orange.net.co.uk with a way of contact, and I'll get back to you!

Share and Enjoy!

geek Lifson coffee



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Lifson Kofie
Last posted: Dec 29, 2007
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My Day At Work...
Dec 23, 2004

So, today is the first day I've been to work at the college all by myself. All ready for a relatively un-eventful day...hell was *I* wrong!!!

Came in this morning and got jumped on 3 times before I even made it through the front door. "Computers aren't working", "System is down", "Computers won't log on", etc. then twice more on my way up to the office, dumped my stuff, verified that indeed - logging on was not possible then went up to the server room.

Walked in, and …

…silence…

The only sound to be heard was that of a single UPS screaming away in the corner…

No server lights,
No lights on the switches
No lights on the UPS units (apart from the one that was screaming)
No fans
No nothing…

It was like the bunker in Jurassic Park. All I had was the strip lights on the ceiling. Nothing computerised was on, nor would turn on, and I was the only one in…

So, keeping entirely calm and composed, I thought...

HOLY S**T! F**K! I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO? WHERE'S THE FUSE BOX? PHONE ESTATES! ESTATES AREN'T IN! S**T! WHAT DO I DO? HOW DO I DO IT? S**T F**K B******S! A**ES!

Anyways - after I started breathing again - I phoned my manager, who has been on leave since Tuesday, and would no doubt be enjoying a lie in (and it turned out that he was!) He was surprisingly understanding about it all (he's a really top bloke). He managed to direct me to the mains trip switches, which I then switched back on, and then everything came back to life -like in Jurassic Park when Dr. Sattler pumps the big grey handle 3 times then hits the big red button…

…or rather - everything apart from the vital stuff…

So after the UPSs had had chance to charge up a bit, the domain controllers etc. came back on, and then I had to log everything back on, and fill in the unplanned shutdown reports that Windows Server 2003 require - and eventually managed to reboot everything again, in the correct order this time, log it all back on, and the college now is back working again!!! (or rather 95% of it)

Manager phoned and asked for a progress report, and seemed pleasantly surprised. Anything still off will be fixed when we all get back on the 4th Jan.

It was a lot of panicking, educated guess-work, and rebooting, but in the end, I managed to get the college back up and working for the admin/finance staff who were still in.

Well chuffed. biggrin

Discuss this entry - 2 replies - Latest reply: Jan 18, 2005

Promotion for Xmas...
Dec 20, 2004

Well...Had the last meeting of the year withn the Star Trek group, and got promoted...to Ensign (Senior Grade) from Ensign (Junior Grade).

smiley

Discuss this entry - 1 reply - Latest reply: Dec 20, 2004

I'm a Bridge Officer...
Nov 29, 2004

I officially have BO!!!

BO - being a reference to the Bridge Officer's examination, which I passed with 87% smiley The pass mark is only 75%, but it takes a month to take the exam because it's pages and pages long!

It's an exam written by the Captain of my Star Trek group - to qualify people to take command of the ship and away teams. I've only been in the group for 18 months, and I'm only 19 - so I'm pretty chuffed.

Took my first away-team on Saturday as a result. Great fun - it went pretty well. Had to write a report on it afterwards - it's currently up to 2 pages!

Let's just hope that the Captain also thought it went well... biggrin

Discuss this entry - 1 reply - Latest reply: Nov 29, 2004

LAN Party..
Nov 29, 2004

I've been invited to a LAN party by some of the guys at work. rainbow

Most cool!!! cool Very excited about this.

Discuss this entry - 11 replies - Latest reply: Nov 30, 2004

London Film and ComiCon...
Nov 8, 2004

Went up to London Film and ComiCon with the Star Trek group I'm with...the U.S.S. Pharaoh...

I met Captain William T. Riker (Jonathan Frakes) yesterday - and he's a brilliant bloke. Lots of fun. Got signed photo and pic taken with him, and we even got a group shot ok

Hoping to meet Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) and T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) next May (IIRC) and Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in February.

Oh yeah...oh yeah... :D

Discuss this entry - 2 replies - Latest reply: Nov 8, 2004

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