Ok, well up to now you probably think that all my time down here is fun an excitement. I thought I woud et you know about two happenings that represent the more mundane aspects of work down here. Unfortunalty no glamorous photos go with this, well, unless you want to see me sitting at a computer.
The first thing that happened was that we started getting errors and outages on out satellite link. This is the link we use for all out communications to the outside world. It turned out that it was caused by somebody else transmitting on out frequency, but it took days of fault finding and troubleshooting to isolate the problem.
The second issue was that when the Aurora Australis came to vist last week, it brought not only new people and goodies, but also a computer virus. Unfortunately a lot of the embedded computers (that is computers that are built into bits of equipment, as opposed to normal computers you use for you non tetchy people) were not protected with virus scanners and it was quite a large job cleaning them all from the virus.
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