Unfortunately this week, my "aha moment" was a not a good one. My "aha" moment came from when my group went back to Teamspace to try to work on our New Songdo City project. The space seemed so cool and effective we could not pass up the chance to work there. We showed up at 10am to work on our NABC.
10am
There was a young lady sitting at the teamspace desk alone and we were put in the uncomfortable position of asking her to leave. Luckily, she left without hesitation.
Next we attempted to connected our two computers (although there were three of us) to the wireless internet. Both computers picked up the Stanford network; however, both were unable to recieve an IP address and were forced to use a signal from another building, which made the connection incredibly slow.
Logging into GROUPSPACE was long, probably due to the slow internet connection.
Once we finally got logged on, both computers experienced (1) prolong freezing of the mouse and (2) an inability to move the mouse up from the laptop to the big screen.
10:35am
We decided to quit. Although we were bummed that we would not get to use the space, it was no longer as cool as we had hoped. We turned to the white board to use it and to our dismay only found one marker. We were about to get up when one of the professionals who works on teamspace showed up, remembered us from the presentation, and offered to get help since we seemed to be struggling. He sent down another one of the people who showed up at Monday's presentation. He did not know why we couldn't get an IP on the Stanford network, since we do in every other building and proceeded to get us an internet chord...only to find out that both that he had put out had been stolen. He ran up and got one of the computers an ethernet chord from his office, which made one computer run faster.
10:47am
At the end of the day, we only used one computer, learned that there is one special instruction for macs (which would not have made much of a difference) that is not detailed in the instructions, and had to rush and go over time to finish our NABC statement because the majority of time was spent trying to get hooked up to the station.
"AHA" things aren't always as great as they seem; but one day I will try it again.