When things go wrong, they go wrong a lot
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:51 pm
OR:
"Why unsecured wireless networks are good for the church"
I had to go to church today as there's a youth retreat and they needed me to run the powerpoint.
So I head there a bit early just so I can turn the PC on and such. I go to turn on the projector. It wont turn on. It's hard to tell if it goes on or not as its high up and we can't see the lights from the sound area. So I go down in the auditorium to check, I see an orange light and a green blinking light. At first I'm just thinking, ok lets just turn it off and restart.
Does not work.
So I pull out the manual, blinking green light can mean different things. The one I was worried about was the last entry "6 blinks = burn bulb". I go back down and count the blinks, blink, blink, blink, blink,blink, blink, off, blink, blink...
Yep, bulb is burnt. This thing is about 50 feet in the air, there are barely enough chairs to make it high enough to get up there, and even if there were not like we actually have a spare bulb for it.
Ok, no problem, I'll just go get one from work. But first I decide to try their powerpoint just to be extra sure it works, guess what, they went and saved it as some weird format called pptx. Does not even reconize in power point. Ok I figure maybe open office can handle it. I go home, start downloading it, head to work, get a projector, go back home, burn the CD, then head back to church.
None of it worked. This is for the songs, which they wanted to start 15 minutes ago.
Someone has a laptop and comes up to see if it will work on theirs, no go, BUT we find an unsecured wireless network. We download a few songs off the internet, and had something to display on the overhead.
Yay for people that are stupid enough to not secure their network.
Thank you to Bryan C!
(Gotta love when people put their name as the SSID)
That was the excitement for tonight.
Next week:
The chair scaffolding and "how many chairs does it take to change a light bulb?"
Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:3601, old post ID:23089
"Why unsecured wireless networks are good for the church"
I had to go to church today as there's a youth retreat and they needed me to run the powerpoint.
So I head there a bit early just so I can turn the PC on and such. I go to turn on the projector. It wont turn on. It's hard to tell if it goes on or not as its high up and we can't see the lights from the sound area. So I go down in the auditorium to check, I see an orange light and a green blinking light. At first I'm just thinking, ok lets just turn it off and restart.
Does not work.
So I pull out the manual, blinking green light can mean different things. The one I was worried about was the last entry "6 blinks = burn bulb". I go back down and count the blinks, blink, blink, blink, blink,blink, blink, off, blink, blink...
Yep, bulb is burnt. This thing is about 50 feet in the air, there are barely enough chairs to make it high enough to get up there, and even if there were not like we actually have a spare bulb for it.
Ok, no problem, I'll just go get one from work. But first I decide to try their powerpoint just to be extra sure it works, guess what, they went and saved it as some weird format called pptx. Does not even reconize in power point. Ok I figure maybe open office can handle it. I go home, start downloading it, head to work, get a projector, go back home, burn the CD, then head back to church.
None of it worked. This is for the songs, which they wanted to start 15 minutes ago.
Someone has a laptop and comes up to see if it will work on theirs, no go, BUT we find an unsecured wireless network. We download a few songs off the internet, and had something to display on the overhead.
Yay for people that are stupid enough to not secure their network.
Thank you to Bryan C!
(Gotta love when people put their name as the SSID)
That was the excitement for tonight.
Next week:
The chair scaffolding and "how many chairs does it take to change a light bulb?"
Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:3601, old post ID:23089