<strong>Your Name: </strong>Dana Lutennegger and Cliff Taylor

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2009/01/16

<strong>Day(s) worked: </strong>Wednesday Friday

<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>6

<strong>The School: </strong>Enrico Fermi Elementary

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Computer Maintenance

<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>

This was another fairly busy week at Fermi.  The Vice Principal's computer that we looked at was replaced.  He took it to Geek Squad at Best Buy (what a bunch of hacks...just kidding) and they told him the same thing we did: that the computer was 9 years old and that no matter how many times we defragmented it or fixed corrupt files, it would still be extremely slow and outdated.  So he got a shiny new Sony Vaio that we got to play with and setup for him. We installed window's updates and got it hooked up to the wireless network.  We also went about trying to install Rapid Eye, but had no luck getting the second set of cameras to work.  Sara said she would take a look at it the next time she came in. 

Another teacher also had a Sony Vaio he wanted us to configure to the wireless network, so we did.  Another teacher in room 121 needed a Math Blasters program installed, so we did that. 

We started on one of our larger to-dos this week as well.  We began checking the lab computers one at a time, running CHKDSK and defragmenting the hard drives so that we have a definite number of working, updated computers.  This project is helpful in two ways: 1. We are able to take CPUs and monitors no longer working to the junk pile we have started n room 224 2. Instead of having to guess which computers work and which don't, all computers will be available for the teachers and students to use.