Archive for August 2008
The UTS Zoom Ghost
Derek Jardine is tutoring an Enterprise Content Management unit at UTS Sydney this term which is as part of post graduate course in Information Management. He asked me to come in a talk to the class about Web Content Management and to demonstrate the capability of Community Manager.
I agreed and prepared a Powerpoint presentation along with some demos etc…I took my Russian Dell Vostro 1510 notebook [Vostro like Vodka] and arrived early to setup. I hooked up to the projector without a hitch and then connected to the UTS network. That’s when the fun began.
A Juniper Network connection utility was installed in the background and suddenly the Vostro started zooming. Say what! Yes you read it right- zoom. It was as if the man inside the machine had drunk to much Vodka and fell asleep on the mouse.
The desktop….zoomed….[1000%]
Powerpoint…zoomed…[400%]
Explorer and Firefox Zoomed….[1000%]
The students suggested it was my Bluetooth mouse so I unplugged it – no change.
I disconnected from the UTS network – no change
I logged off and back on – It stopped happening.
One student suggested there was a ghost in my notebook.
Actually it felt more like a the zoom ghost of UTS.
Luckily we had a classroom terminal and the presentation was completed without interruption and it went pretty well.
Freakin weird huh…Has anyone experienced anything like this before? Would love to hear from you if you have.
