Well I just got my first pay check from my new job working for the State…and what a month its been.
Over the course of the last few weeks I’ve gone into three seperate prisons and a jail to install and setup computers for the medical staff there. As one might expect prisons are not fun places, and I can personally vouch for this, and I’m not even making that statement from an inmates perspective.
When I’m not installing and trouble shooting networks in the “facilities” my time is spent in the office @ the exchange building in Farmington putting together training documents, fixing computers, and researching software/hardware to implement on the network.
The other day we had to go to the department of corrections central office to help a few people with PC troubles….and get finger printed. The machines below are “Cogent Systems” digital finger print scanners. The state spent roughly 700,000 on a handful of these machines to be deployed to all the state police stations. You are looking at the only functional one. They run on windows and when one was on the network it took roughly 2 weeks for it to be hit by a worm…all in all thats a pretty long time.
In theory they should return any warrants matching your finger prints from a compilation of law enforcement agencies databases within 4 minutes, but instead they are sitting in the basement, crated, at the central DOC office….great way for tax payer money to be used I’d say.
