<strong>Your Name: Joe King</strong><strong></strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/03/13[Week 10]

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> F (sick Thursday)

<strong>Total hours for week: 2</strong>

<strong>The School:
</strong><em>Fiske</em>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Wrap Up

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Today will probably be my last day at Fiske this quarter, and since I won't be around next quarter I've been trying to wrap up as much as possible, but there's so much to do!  Right now we're working on getting software on all of the new computers in the 300s lab--the school purchased a license for Adobe Photoshop and Premier.  While I'm thinking that it would be best to make a few cds with the data so we can install them, Premier is a huge file (about 2GB), and it's too large for a CD.  I'd put them on a DVD, but these computers only have CDRW/DVD drives, so I can't burn them here (and we don't have blank DVD's--we have plenty of blank CDs).  Right now I'm looking into breaking down the files into smaller chunks, but if I can't get it done (which is likely), it would help tremendously if someone could download and burn the file to DVD for the school (Mr. Miller downloaded the files on 10 computers simultaneously, sounds like it took a full 48 hours).

After this installation is done (I'm recommending Mr. Miller install everything they want right now), someone's going to need to get this lab up and running.  Honestly, I think here that Jenna (or whomever else is working on it) is going to have to basically just start doing it, because I'm not sure if it will get done before the end of the year otherwise (I think Mr. Miller's plans might be a little too grand to ever get completed).

Overall, things look really exciting at Fiske.  It's too bad everything's just getting started now, because I would have loved to help out with this part.  Another large project is going to be getting these other computers imaged--I recommended that Mr. Miller set them all up in the 200s lab, and then image them (since it sounds like they're much heavier machines), but I think this batch needs to get done first.  Hopefully, though, by the end of the year Fiske will actually have some working technology to justify it's "tech school" status.

Anyways, I might come in next week if something comes up, but otherwise I have finals and a lot of work, so I'm going to try not to.  Hopefully everything goes well next quarter, as always I'm sure I'll check my e-mail a lot, so if you need anything from me just send me one at <a href="mailto:jrking@uchicago.edu">jrking@uchicago.edu</a>.  I've left the toolkit in the 300s lab, it's on one of the shelves in the corner by what used to be the teacher's computer.

Take care everyone!

--Joe

P.S. I wasn't able to split those files.  If need be, they can be downloaded, but it would take at least a week just to do that with the ones we have already imaged, let alone the ~50 that are supposed to be downstairs. Mr. Miller has all the licensing site info, and it's all packaged data so a DVD would work great (we could even put the serial number right on the dvd so we don't lose it--I think we've already lost it once).