<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman
<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/1/11
Reporting on most recent week
<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: T, F
<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5
<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle
<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General
<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:

Tuesday, I checked a lot of the computers in the lab to make sure that the printer in the Lab was the only one on the list of printers, and that it had been installed correctly (this had been on my to-do list for a while). This turned out to be a good idea, since I found a few with the Microsoft Office Document Imaging printer, as well as the lab printer. I also shuffled around the toner, since the lab printer was nearly completely out, so that now, the printer in the lounge has both the bad drum unit and a very low toner cartridge. I'm not sure what kind of use that gets, though. I also helped a teacher print out practice ISAT reading questions, which proved unexpectedly difficult, but was eventually accomplished.

Friday I set to work checking on the computers that were previously in the teacher's bathroom (I found out about those on Tuesday). There were two monitors, two CPUs, two keyboards, and two mouses...the mouses were both missing balls, and one of the keyboards is missing keys, so that cuts down on their utility. One of the CPUs has Windows 98, but the other already has Windows 2K. It was missing one of the standard school accounts, so I ran the "Standard Accounts" executable provided to me, except after I logged it, it looked like I had been locked out of the techco acccount! I'll take a look this Tuesday, since I stopped working on it after that. Both monitors look okay, and one of them is a nicer Dell one that can definitely be put to use.

I finished up the printer checkup job I started on Tuesday. I thusly found two computers with 128 MB of memory, which caused several problems even though they had been okay before (but I did not see the problem caused by the earlier INSTR update). Since there were two disconnected computers of the same model off to the side, I opened those up and snatched the RAM. Eventually, both of the memory-challenged computers were up and running with 256 MB of RAM (although one has 4 64 MB chips and one has 2 128 MB chips). Since I thought these computers could now handle Deep Freeze, I went ahead and installed that successfully. The two computers are C5 and E1, by the way.

What I'd most like to do next week is upgrade the Windows 98 computers to Windows 2K. I'm pretty sure they all have 128 MB of memory, but hopefully that won't be a problem. I've presided over OS installations and can restore an image to a drive, but I presume CUIP has a special disk or something. Can you, Mitch or Russ, stop by on Tuesday morning if you have time to let me know what I should do? Thanks!

<strong>Remaining Issues</strong>:
<ul>
	<li>DeepFreeze Remote Console, eventually. I know Russ said he would take care of that later.</li>
	<li>Experimenting with the spare printers lying around.</li>
	<li>Working with Russ to set up a wiki (is this still even necessary?), as well as getting back to the teachers who had been interested in the blog. I haven't heard back from them, though.</li>
	<li>A long-term labeling solution for the computers.</li>
	<li>The report sheets for general usage, and my schedule.</li>
</ul>
Thought of the Week: Anyone thought of installing Linux on a spare CPU or two and letting the kids play around with it? If we have one of the Windows 98 computers that we don't want to upgrade, for example...just a thought! Also, and I keep forgetting to do this since I have a Mac at home and don't use Internet Explorer, but I should go ahead and figure out what ails the CUIP NSP reporting website (or WP theme) in IE6. There's a bug or two we can work out...there's someone who's already working on the site, right?

-Ben Hyman