(Catching up with the Reporting Blog...)                                                              
                                                                                                      
Hi, Emily and Dana,                                                                                   
                                                                                                      
Quiet week at Fermi?  Well, bravo!  Fermi deserves that, as do we.                                    
                                                                                                      
I had forgotten that there might be client computers still joined to the                              
FERMIDOM domain, to show up on the compliance report.  If you can track                               
them down physically, by all means join them to INSTR; there should be no                             
down-side to that anywhere in the school.  (If the students are using a                               
FERMIDOM generic login it might be necessary to discuss with the teacher                              
and switch to using this-computerschool.)  The FERMIDOM domain is at best                            
semi-functioning; Sanjaya and I tried to shut it down cleanly last Spring                             
but couldn't for various reasons [the "global catalog server" is down],                               
but we might try again now with more radical measures...


Right, CPS does not like having Win98 machines on the network, so we try to                                  
upgrade them to W2K if the hardware will support it.  If possible, do a                               
clean install rather than the kind of upgrade that tries to preserve                                  
documents and programs; this may involve a discussion with the teacher.
Since the Acers often have driver issues after a generic MS OS install,                               
another option for them would be the Ghost images.                                                    
                                                                                                      
Are the computers from the cabinets in the "empty side" of the computer                               
lab generally better than what's installed in the classrooms?  I can't                                
recall if we finished sorting through them.  How many usable units could                              
we likely get from those?  Anyway, I'm pleased to hear that Ms.                                       
Love-is-all-you-need has a better computer setup now than previously.                                 
                                                                                                      
You might be surprised how controversial the issue of snow days is on the                             
teachers' discussion boards!  There are folks with a lot to say about it                              
on both sides.  As I write (election day morning) we have a Winter Storm                              
Warning forecast for this evening; yikes, is it going to be more of the                               
same for weeks on end?!                                                                               
                                                                                                      
Thanks for the fine work you both have been consistently doing at Fermi!                              
                                                                                                      
  ==Mitch