Most of Saturday\nmorning we concentrated on the aches and pains of the Sisters‘\nlaptops. A slow machine here, an overcrowded hard disk there. The\nlaptop of Sr. Maria, who is now in Tanzania, was given Windows in\nKaren and the divice \u201cthanked\u201d with a long boot time until\nfinally the Microsoft logo appeared on the screen. This clearly\nshowed that an old 32-bit machine with only 1 GB RAM is just not a\nfast one to start. FreiOSS people advise: buy a new Computer with\nWindows; and the laptop is set back again on Ubuntu and can thus\nspend its „twilight years“ usefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sister Rosa\u2019s \nexternal hard disk obviously conked out finally; all attempts to\nrescue it failed. But since most of her data is still on her\ncomputer, she was able to cope with the loss relatively easily. This\njourney seems to be overshadowed by „data loss“ –\nfortunately without total loss. Sr. Lucy fared better, her notebook\ndid its job again after cloning the HD and „purification“\nand time-consuming treatment with Gparted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking of damage\nand damage control: when Michael Schmelzer left, we stated the loss\nof 18 desktops. But the team worked meticulously and was able to\nreduce the number to 5, i.e. 13 machines were working again after\nbeing repaired and transferred from IT room 2. This room is now empty\n(probably had not been used anyway). \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The days in\nChesongoch and Endo were exhausting with little sleep in the heat,\nwith running, noisy generators next to the guest rooms, as\nKenya-Power once again could not maintain the supply. But then the\nconvent in Ruaraka had a little surprise in store for Birgit and\nMichael. Because, probably through the open window, a mouse had found\nits way into their room and had busied itself with an open bag of\nnuts. Despite an intensive search, the creature could not be found.\nIn the middle of the night they were awakened by an object falling\ndown in the bathroom; the mouse sat on the shelf above the sink – a\nsports mouse obviously with the ability to jump and climb. But then\nit was put to the outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As usual in Ruaraka,\nSaturday was Java Day. So the driver of the convent took us, together\nwith Sr. Paula, to the Garden-City Mall. There we met Sr. Emily and\nGloria (adopted daughter) in the Java-Restaurant and had a good chat\nwith them. Sr. Emily hadn’t forgotten since last year that Michael’s\nbirthday is in January. So she surprised him with a birthday muffin.\nAfter we all had had our „Double Mokka“ or „Double\nEspresso“ shake, we went back to the convent with the Uber taxi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And there was still\nthe projector that didn’t work anymore. Werner soldered the torn\nwires artfully together again – he used the soldering iron, which\nturned black after soldering for 10 minutes and is probably no longer\nusable (disposable soldering iron with limited use). At least the\nprojector was working again, but with a small redshift in the\nspectrum of the light beam. In addition, the fan didn’t seem to run\nproperly. Let’s see if this can still be repaired – maybe we’ll take\nthe device back to Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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