<strong>Your Name: Emily</strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/5/29

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W Θ

<strong>Total hours for week: 4</strong>

<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> tech general

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

Wednesday started out with a bang and ended with a "pfeh". I came in to the news that the internet was down in rm. 121. The problem resided in that same darn fool hub that Ms. Netti's computer used to be plugged into -- as Dana discovered many weeks ago, it doesn't seem to work when all of the ports are filled up. However, someone keeps plugging cables into it with wild abandon, so I judiciously unplugged a few cables and things started to work again. Unfortunately, these student computers weren't given wireless! In the course of fixing this problem, I ran into another issue: the computer in the teacher's lounge is having wireless trouble, something about "authentication failing". I wasn't sure what to do about this, since I don't know much about the wireless setup at Fermi, but there seemed to be some disjunction between what the wireless card thought its security setting was (a PSK) and what its settings actually are (plain old WPA/password). It's still up in the air -- I just connected the computer back to the crappy hub in 121 and let it be for now. Dr. Cima was also having some odd problem with his computer that was solved by restarting it, as was Ms. Alexander (palms were freezing when syncing -- restarted -- presto bango, problem solved). After dealing with these problems, I thought I'd make an attempt to further refurbish the computer I'd given to Ms. Love, but she wasn't in so I amused myself by looking up more powerpoint tricks. These weren't useful on Thursday, however, since the yearbook student whose camera we've been using was absent and the computer on which we've been storing our photos has come down with some pernicious disease which causes it to shut down completely at irregular and unanticipated intervals. We weren't going to be able to get much work done in this situation, so I sent the students back to class. Fortunately, Mr. Laws came through with a project for me. He wanted to make it so that the security cameras appear in a certain order on his RapidEye display. I discovered that the way to do this was to go up to the MDF room and physically rearrange the camera cables so that they aligned to the order he wanted, then to change the names of each camera on the computer which directly controls the unit. All in all, an unanticipated success!