(mailing and posting)

Hi, Bryan,

Thanks so much for working with Ms. Parks on her document saving/backup
arrangements!  It's always a plus when we can help a Principal directly;
even if occasioned by something unfortunate like her disk failure.

Yes, I too have come to prefer the motherboard jumper method for clearing
power-on passwords: it's faster and more reliable than the old idea of
taking out the coin-battery and waiting (an indeterminate time!).  The
only hitch is *finding* the right jumper on some models where it is not so
clearly marked -- but Dell provides diagrams on their support site, and if
you were on the phone with them that's probably even better

There is a question that naturally raises -- who put on that password and
why?  If it's the students fooling around, and we see more of it, we can
consider setting an administrative password at the bootup -- that locks
away the screen where a power-on password gets set (or changed) but
doesn't itself put a password requirement on rebooting.  If on the other
hand it was a teacher or the lab sub, we'll need to talk it over with all
parties...

The school web site is hosted on CUIP, so there is no *technical*
impediment to reassigning ownership or passwords.  But we definitely would
need to talk with Ms Parks and probably Ms Evans (though I don't think
Evans takes much interest in the web pages), and establish at least these
two things: 1) a teacher or admin person with the school to be the
official contact / approver / manager for web site update; and 2) the
scope of work to be undertaken (update only facts / names / dates, or
update and mildly reorganize, or start from scratch on a new one).  It may
be that the teacher/admin person will want to be hands-on, but chances are
they will be happy to contribute ideas and directions and leave the
hands-on operations to CUIP, which could mean mostly you.

I think Shaz would like to have that main conversation with Ms. Parks
about establishing a couple understandings for the web site.   But by all
means you could mention it if you see her and feel like bringing it up.  I
know this sounds very drawn-out and roundabout, but that's just my style
of writing it up, after we all return from break it can be handled very
quickly and easily.

Have a real good spring break!

  thanks again,

   ==mitch