<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman
<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2007/10/26
Reporting on most recent week
<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: Tu, 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>: On Tuesday, I took a look at the computer's in room 105 to see what it would take to get them working. I'll have a quick look before I leave today, but expect to do some more work on those next Tuesday.  I believe the network is not working on one of them.

With some later help from Russ, the printers in room 103 are now working completely!

Room 106 needed a student computer set up - I mentioned in my last report that I kept getting a disk error and I was unable to boot into the BIOS. I opened up the machine and re-seated the hard drive; everything is now working excellently!

Ms. Ahad asked if I could set up some INSTR accounts for several students, and enable a few others. I looked at the AD User Management console and disabled and then re-enabled the select accounts. Nothing seems out of place--it's possible some of the students simply forgot their password, in which case I can reset those. I'll have Ms. Ahad check it out and keep me informed. What are the formats for student INSTR passwords?

I was peaking around the computer lab and noticed a drive error on computer W14 - it didn't seem to be able to find any drives. I opened it up as well and re-seated the hard drive, and I'm now getting a different error: "A disk read error occurred." I will re-seat the drive again Tuesday and keep you informed.

I was informed of an error in room 301 I was unable to duplicate, something about a user not having permission to save a file into their "My Documents" folder. I will keep an eye out.

I was asked to take care of room 204, the teacher's lounge. One is a Windows 98 computer, the other (2K) one I hooked up and nabbed the mouse from the 98 computer. The 2K now seems to be working fine.

I was told to take care of room 102, but I don't see an issue. It's possible a teacher may want a computer removed. I will ask for clarification.

Last but not least, I checked up on room 207. I sent Mitch an email about power supply issues, and this is where it comes into play. I'll steal a power strip from elsewhere in the school and use it, hopefully avoiding having to use the lower outlets which I was advised against. One computer is missing a mouse, and the PS/2 port doesn't seem to be working too great. Please see my question below about extra equipment available to me.

Basically, my biggest issue right now is to fix W14 in the computer lab on Tuesday morning, and then I'll get around to other teacher requests.

A few questions:
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	<li>What extra equipment is available to me? Whatever I see in the room? I know there's paper and toner in the office, but in terms of USB mouses, PS/2 mouses, extra keyboards, extra power strips, extra power cords, etc...</li>
	<li>What's the deal with Windows 98 computers?</li>
	<li>I get this error when I login to the INSTR account bhyman4260. Any ideas? <a href="https://webshare.uchicago.edu/users/bhyman/Public/tmp.JPG?uniq=-7ihmsc">https://webshare.uchicago.edu/users/bhyman/Public/tmp.JPG?uniq=-7ihmsc</a></li>
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Mitch, I'll reply to your email ASAP!

Also, please note that I will be submitting a schedule revision: instead of Tuesday 8-10; 3:30 - 4:30 and Friday 1:30 - 3:30, I want to change to Tu. 8-10 and Fri. 1:15 - 4:15. I've cleared this with Ms. Ahad and just have to run the paperwork through NSP, if that's okay with you.

Thanks much,

Ben Hyman