<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman
<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/3/14
Reporting on most recent week
<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: T, F
<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5.6
<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle
<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General
<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:
I think this was a pretty productive week! Before I showed up on Tuesday, I'd gotten an email from Ms. Spector asking for some blogging help, which I quickly responded to, and then also got an email from Ms. Ahad giving me permission to shuffle some computers around the school.

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To that end, when I got to work on Tuesday, I moved the computer (and peripherals) from Ms. Escalona's room to the computer lab. I got so busy on Tuesday that I didn't actually have a chance to take a closer look at it, though! In no particular order, here's what I did: copied down all the serial numbers I could find on the new printer boxes; took a look at the whiteboard to see if we could get it working; started the renaming process on computers around the school; helped another social worker set up her ChildServe account; tried taking care of the display drivers on E5; tried diagnosing a graphics problem on the computer in 101; helped Ms. LaCour with some new financial-record-keeping software for the school. I also found another computer in the teacher's bathroom!

Friday was a bit less hectic. I was able to go to nearly every computer in the school and make sure that they all met the new description convention; in this process, I found several computers that looked like they weren't in use, and could possibly be salvaged/relocated to serve better purposes. I also ran the "Standard Accounts" program on one that didn't have all the...well, standard accounts.

I moved the CPU from the teacher's bathroom up to the computer lab, but didn't have a chance to check it before I had to leave. I also took a look at the computer I moved from Ms. Escalona's room back on Tuesday; to my eternal frustration, the RAM it had in it was a) proprietary and b)impossible to get at and remove without a screwdriver, so I couldn't even combine it with the other RAM of the same proprietary type. I had hopes of doing this in one of the CPUs, and then replacing one of the faulty-memory ones in the computer lab with this one; otherwise, we've just got good (albeit proprietary) memory going to waste. It's difficult for me to explain, but I'll keep you updated.

There are spare computers (at least one per room, in some cases more) in the following rooms:

101
103
203
306

<strong>Questions for you guys for next quarter</strong>
<ul>
<li>NEW PRINTERS! Russ, can you please send me an email about the procedure for this?</li>
<li>Does CUIP have any F/F serial cables so I can test out that whiteboard I mentioned above?</li>
<li>I mentioned that on Tuesday, I tried diagnosing a graphics problem in room 101. I didn't get too close a chance to look at it, and can try harder after Spring Break, but do either of you have any experience with all windows leaving horizontal shadows that extend all the way to both sides of the screen?</li>
<li>One of the computers in the lab has a bad name - it's obviously an instructional computer, but it starts with "A", for administrative. Should I go ahead and just change that, or instead use CPS' "Correct Computer Name" script?</li>
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<strong>Reminders for myself for next quarter</strong>
<ul>
<li>Pursuing the spare computers</li>
<li>Sending Ms. LaCour directions for the financial-record-keeping software.</li>
<li>Not forgetting that i've started keeping some files on the canter server, under \canter-srv02usersstaffbhyman4260. this includes the list of printer serial numbers.</li>
<li>Checking naming in Room 207, and seeing if some of those computers can be moved out of there</li>
<li>Making sure the descriptions on computers C3, C4, E1, and E3-E5 are okay.</li>
<li>Resolving memory issues on C3, E3-E5, and finding display drivers for E5/others.</li>
<li>Following up on the computer from the teacher's bathroom, and the ones with the proprietary memory</li>
<li>Possible memory issues in room 106</li>
<li>Space on computer in room 304</li>
<li>Using Canter's compliance website</li>
<li>Editing the theme for this site. That may not be something I can do too well at Canter, or at least not without my laptop.</li>
<li>I still have hope for DeepFreeze, sometime!</li>

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<strong>"Nonsense wakes up the brain." Theodor Seuss Geisel</strong>

-Ben Hyman