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If not, let\'s suggest that; it can equally well be paper, a document on his computer or PDA,  or even a shared Google spreadsheet like we were using this summer for ENTR. \n\n\nTo get Asset Tags the school TechCo calls the 3-EXCL help line and requests them. Last year the schools had an extremely mixed experience doing this: some call-line personnel simply took the request, asked how many are needed, and had them in CPS Mail Run for delivery the next day.  That\'s the way it should be! But others claimed only the Unisys teams could have the tags and would bring them when they came to install the computers; or that the techco had to fill in a form detailing the hardware, OS, and S/N for each computer.  So it may take persistence, or luck.',0,'1','','',0,2),(10,24,'Erik','erik@cuip.net','http://','24.12.251.101','2006-11-06 16:08:10','2006-11-06 22:08:10','Thanks for the report!  I am sure things will pick up this week.  Constantine is pretty good at pooling from her stock of spare parts.  I will plan to meet you onsite either Thurs or Friday.',0,'1','','',0,0),(11,25,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','68.20.221.27','2006-11-06 08:59:17','2006-11-06 13:59:17','Thanks for taking over with Mr Poole!  I would\'ve swapped seats with you sooner but I was stuck futzing wth that computer that Z wanted to get going sooner than later.\n\nWow!, just now I finally realized that Firefox 2.0 has spellcheck apparently built-in for typing in form textboxes. I had heard that and went looking for plugins without finding exactly the right one &mdash;  but it seems to be working without an add-in.  Erin, would you mention this to Ms. White if you have an opportunity in the next few? Thanks!  Now we oughta plan a Firefox update for our weblog-using classrooms. ...',0,'1','','',0,2),(12,25,'Erin','efranz@uchicago.edu','http://','209.175.47.162','2006-11-07 10:57:19','2006-11-07 16:57:19','A general Firefox update sounds like a good plan. I\'ll be seeing Mr. Poole today, so I\'ll ask if he\'s interested.',0,'1','','',0,8),(13,26,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','68.20.221.27','2006-11-06 08:46:26','2006-11-06 13:46:26','Hey, James, thanks for your report.  See you tomorrow (Tuesday) at the school! We\'ll see if the system of having computer-related requests go to Ms. Thurman has started working.  In the science lab (204 in the big building) that we didn\'t actually get into on your \"tour day\", Z had two newly-installed computers which needed initial setup n the CPS network (a process they misleadingly call \'remediation\').  I did one of them while watching Shaz\'s blogging presentation :), but reserved the other one for us to work on together Tuesday.\n\n(BTW, we weren\'t actually expecting reports based on introduction visits, but evidently ever said so, and after a couple of these appeared I went and added it as a \"kind of work\" category.)',0,'1','','',0,2),(14,30,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','68.250.195.113','2006-11-09 22:48:11','2006-11-10 04:48:11','Noah, it\'s fine to report once a week and cover both days ... in fact that\'s basically what we\'re looking for, no need for a report from each visit. \n\nIt\'s great that you\'re making so much progress on that stack of ex-211\'s!  Russ will be organizing some upstairs deployments based on Mrs Townsend\'s lists.',0,'1','','',0,2),(15,31,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','68.250.195.113','2006-11-10 00:04:40','2006-11-10 06:04:40','Hi, Justin,                                                                                                                                   thanks for your report.\n                                                                                                                                   \nRuss and I will try to come up with some advice about the color printer,                                                           \nor might go take a look at it.  On the matter of the printer in 204                                                                \n(teachers\' Resource Room -- or is it officially \"Lounge\"?:), thank you for                                                         \ncontinuing to check it out when they report dissatisfaction. Along with                                                            \nkeeping things actually working we want to also deal with perceptions, so                                                          \nit\'s a fine idea to check back with the person reporting a problem and                                                             \nverify if printing works from their computer.                                                                                      \n                                                                                                                                   \nAnd the lab printers were acting up too!  I wish someone would reinvent                                                            \nthat whole technology!                                                                                                             \n                                                                                                                                   \nThanks again,  \n==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(16,37,'Russ','russ@cuip.net','','128.135.76.89','2006-11-13 12:07:47','2006-11-13 18:07:47','Good reporting, Jonathan.\n\nSome times days will be turned upside down.\n\nEnjoy your Nike shirt!\n\nRuss',0,'1','','',0,0),(17,38,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','68.250.194.20','2006-11-16 07:39:34','2006-11-16 13:39:34','Hi, Chris, thanks for the interesting report.  It\'s exciting to picture the first graders doing their powerpoint!  Sounds like there could be a schoolwide Tech Fair in the spring.\n\nRuss and I noticed yesterday, just browsing around, the progress on the Howell blog. Good work! The school general blog, listed as belonging to the principal, is so far managed by Terry, though Dr. Kennedy has to some extent expressed interest.  You can check with Terry on whether his plans would include setting you up for some one-to-one assist/advise time with Dr. Kennedy.\n\nIs it Mrs Howell\'s classroom computer you were cleaning up? CPS has a particular mandated antivirus program, so we\'re not supposed to install any other. You can see if that one is installed and thinks it\'s up-to-date by looking in the system tray area for a medium-dark-blue circular icon with a waveform design on it -- right-click to get info or have it update.  If it seems to be missing, get Terry or Nate [or Russ or me] to show you a couple things about \"remediation\".  \n\nThere is not, OTOH, a mandated anti-spy/anti-ad program, so it\'s fine to choose your favorite (such as Ad-Aware or as you suggest Spybot S&D) and run a cleanup.  Many CPS school computers need that treatment badly!  Nice initiative on that and the general disk cleanup.',0,'1','','',0,2),(18,38,'cfuruya','cfuruya@uchicago.edu','http://','128.135.155.92','2006-11-18 10:39:47','2006-11-18 16:39:47','The antispyware program on Mrs. Howell\'s computer said it expired January 2005. This is a long time to go without a firewall of some sort, so it badly needs updating- but that it expired implies that it\'s not free, and I\'m not authorized to spend CPS money.',0,'1','','',0,12),(19,39,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2006-11-20 12:20:54','2006-11-20 18:20:54','Thanks, Justin, this kind of list is great!  (And I\'m glad it includes some fixes along with the continued problem items.)  Ad-Aware is a good idea, as is the Firefox upgrade.',0,'1','','',0,2),(20,42,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','68.20.216.44','2006-11-20 07:12:35','2006-11-20 13:12:35','We saw the clipboard in the office.  Good idea! \n\nCUIP does not right now have a HDD enclosure.  But we should! Thanks for the stimulus to get this done; but it may not be until next week that we\'ll have some in hand and can make one available for you @ Fiske.\n\nPlease see my email about antivirus / antispy-antiad / firewall options (non-options generally, I\'m sad to say).\n\nThanks,\n\n ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(21,43,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','68.20.216.44','2006-11-20 07:01:06','2006-11-20 13:01:06','Thanks, Jon.  I didn\'t realize the Nike principal-for-a-day had brought/sent a crew that could help with computer issues.  Hey, some schools really luck out with this program!  (Mollison is also getting athletic equipment?) There was a question about printing in the lab -- I don\'t remember who was the last one dealing with it -- but AFAYK is it cleared up?  Keep up the good work!   Thanks, \n==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(22,43,'Jon','jcoppage@uchicago.edu','http://','128.135.157.52','2006-11-20 11:02:47','2006-11-20 17:02:47','Yeah, I saw that Jennifer\'s post said the kids were having problems printing there. I jut read it last night, but I\'ll definitely make that a high priority on Tuesday to figure out and fix.',0,'1','','',0,13),(23,45,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','68.20.216.44','2006-11-21 07:47:50','2006-11-21 13:47:50','Thanks, Nate. I\'m sorry you were under the weather, but am very glad to hear from you now!',0,'1','','',0,2),(24,51,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','68.250.195.177','2006-11-27 07:14:31','2006-11-27 13:14:31','Hi, Chris. Thanks for your report, and good work in getting Burdette ready for blogging!  See my direct email response for advice regarding the first-grade typing.\n\n ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(25,57,'Erin','efranz@uchicago.edu','http://','66.72.207.102','2006-12-17 01:48:46','2006-12-17 07:48:46','The blog helpdesk looks really cool- I can think of a few teachers at Till who might find it helpful.',0,'1','','',0,8),(26,62,'Erik','erik@cuip.net','','24.12.251.101','2007-01-25 10:59:08','2007-01-25 16:59:08','Hello Yayan,\n\nI have sent you many emails since we returned from breaks with no response so I hope its because they are simply not getting thru to you.  Please contact me ASAP.\n\nthanks,\nErik\n773-936-3745',0,'1','','',0,0),(27,69,'cfuruya','cfuruya@uchicago.edu','http://','128.135.155.92','2007-01-02 17:41:55','2007-01-02 23:41:55','The lime green against the white and gray is a bit disorienting, can we adjust the color a bit? Keep the theme, though, I definetly like the new layout, it\'s saving me from having to dig up various links (because I\'m too lazy to remember where they are...).',0,'1','','',0,12),(28,69,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','68.252.193.121','2007-01-02 19:51:05','2007-01-03 01:51:05','Glad to see you\'re back, Chris!\n\nThe colors are fer shure the next thing to tweak.  It\'s not all CSS and text-based color designations, though &mdash; see the images in <a href=\"http://reporting.cuip.net/wp-content/themes/cordobo-cuip/images/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://reporting.cuip.net/wp-content/themes/cordobo-cuip/images/</a>  .\n\nFor tonight I\'m leaving it at pulling the Meta menu up higher and commenting out some little-used items therein.',0,'1','','',0,2),(29,77,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-01-16 15:53:20','2007-01-16 21:53:20','We\'ve been in touch over email, so I don\'t have anything new to say here, but will just repeat: thanks for getting this together!  Incidentally, I\'m also glad to see it demonstrated that non-Media file types can be uploaded to this blog -- did that go easily?',0,'1','','',0,2),(30,78,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-01-16 15:49:43','2007-01-16 21:49:43','Hi Bryan -- thanks for the report.  To make a copy of a floppy, with a boot track, use \"diskcopy\".  I think the syntax would be \n\n diskcopy A: A:\n\nHere is the help output: \n\n   Copies the contents of one floppy disk to another.\n\nDISKCOPY [drive1: [drive2:]] [/V]\n\n  /V   Verifies that the information is copied correctly.\n\nThe two floppy disks must be the same type.\nYou may specify the same drive for drive1 and drive2.',0,'1','','',0,2),(31,79,'cfuruya','cfuruya@uchicago.edu','http://','128.135.155.92','2007-01-20 21:54:07','2007-01-21 03:54:07','What\'s Wright 3 about? Pun off of writing and right vs. wrong- scriptWright 3 (sounds like a program name, sorry), the Wright Response-blog...\n\nSorry. Wrighter\'s bloc; only ideas for you are really, really bad.',0,'1','','',0,12),(32,81,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-01-22 12:35:12','2007-01-22 18:35:12','Hey Bryan!  I\'m losing track of what\'s going thru email and what\'s going here :) .  Anyway, I hope you found both the original floppies and those I made last week.  What\'s this I hear about USB 1.1 and Ghosting, hmm?  Darn tootin it takes forever ... which is why the server-share option has stayed in play.  Are the images you need only on the USB portable HDD, and not on the server?  \n\nSk/ol!,\n\n == Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(33,81,'Erik','erik@cuip.net','','24.12.251.101','2007-01-22 16:43:05','2007-01-22 22:43:05','Duff... keep up the good work.  When things are a little slow ask around to see which teachers are doing black history month projects.  For instance I spoke with Mrs. Olefsky today and she and I are working on a quilt project with her 2nd graders. (FYI- this is the ramp up to testing time too.)\n\nErik',0,'1','','',0,0),(34,84,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.27.211','2007-01-22 17:54:46','2007-01-22 23:54:46','Thanks a lot for participating in the focus group!',0,'1','','',0,2),(35,84,'Sara','sara@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.94','2007-01-23 14:40:11','2007-01-23 20:40:11','Yes, thank you for coming last Tuesday evening.  Your comments were very useful!',0,'1','','',0,3),(36,85,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-01-22 12:37:19','2007-01-22 18:37:19','Hey, Kevin, what\'s the followup on those laptops you mailed about, that had some sort of power-on admin password??  \n\nThanks,\n\n ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(37,88,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-01-22 12:30:40','2007-01-22 18:30:40','Sounds good!  Don\'t worry about redundancy in checking 206 -- that\'s something we should probably give a quick once-over to on a fairly regular basis anyway.  Something else we could use from 204 is simply a list of the computer names (like I4740W00220000U), so that Ms Sudduth can organize her Deep Freeze console with folders for the major rooms.  Thanks!  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(38,88,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.27.211','2007-01-23 05:57:29','2007-01-23 11:57:29','BTW, I\'m with the party that says <strong>till</strong> (in the temporal sense, not the moneydrawer) is a perfectly good, in fact ancient, English word; and there is no earthly reason to write <strong>\'til</strong> as though it were a clipping of <strong>until</strong>.',0,'1','','',0,2),(39,91,'Russ','russ@cuip.net','','128.135.76.89','2007-01-29 09:08:18','2007-01-29 15:08:18','Chris,\n\nIf you would report broken computers or computers that need work to Mr. Jones, that would be helpful.  You could also ask Mr. Jones for help in getting other teachers involved.\n\nThanks.\n\nRuss',0,'1','','',0,0),(40,91,'cfuruya','cfuruya@uchicago.edu','http://','128.135.155.92','2007-02-03 19:37:13','2007-02-04 01:37:13','I\'m sorry for not being clear; I replaced the gummy and nonfunctional computers on Wednesday.',0,'1','','',0,12),(41,91,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.247.235','2007-02-04 10:24:01','2007-02-04 16:24:01','hi, chris ... please check your email on this, the chronology wasn\'t really what russ\'s question was getting at\n ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(42,92,'Erin','efranz@uchicago.edu','http://blog.cuip.net/BookPreviews','209.175.47.162','2007-01-29 16:26:07','2007-01-29 22:26:07','In the general interest of keeping viewer clicks to a minimum, I liked having the recent posts show on the main page. You could try some sort of \"announcement\" box worked into the main index template (like I have on the book previews site) to give the CUIP announcements. It wouldn\'t look like a post but it can\'t be overlooked, either.',0,'1','','',0,0),(43,92,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.247.235','2007-02-04 12:17:37','2007-02-04 18:17:37','Thanks for the idea! I\'m trying it out now. I\'ve probably got it in too heavy-duty of a style, making it feel a bit obtrusive showing on every page.  But that can be toned down.',0,'1','','',0,2),(44,94,'Erik','erik@cuip.net','','24.12.251.101','2007-01-25 10:28:52','2007-01-25 16:28:52','Allison,\n\nThe fun never ends huh?  Fisk tanks and fish food!  Keep up the good work and in the meantime I will try to find out when Mr. Lenon is coming back.  By the way... there may be an opportunityt to work at Kenwood this Friday.  I will let you know.\n\nErik',0,'1','','',0,0),(45,95,'Erik','erik@cuip.net','','128.135.76.59','2007-01-26 15:27:56','2007-01-26 21:27:56','Yayan,\nYour notes are great! Thanks!  2 quick questions.\n1.  Are you busy the whole, or most of the time, you are onsite?\n2.  Do you feel productive?',0,'1','','',0,0),(46,96,'Erik','erik@cuip.net','','128.135.76.59','2007-01-26 15:29:04','2007-01-26 21:29:04','Good work Xavier!  Thanks for these notes!\n\nErik',0,'1','','',0,0),(47,96,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-01-26 16:17:53','2007-01-26 22:17:53','I\'m so pleased to hear the outdated books (and software?) in 204 is finally getting shoveled out!  You\'ll probably create space for another two kids :)',0,'1','','',0,2),(48,98,'Erik','erik@cuip.net','','209.175.47.162','2007-02-01 10:47:36','2007-02-01 16:47:36','Once again... great work.  Sorry I have not been around much since we got back from break.  I have mainly been working with Rafael on a Spanish podcasting project on tues and thurs afternoons.  If u can insert yourself into any Black Hist projects its a great way to mix it up a bit.  I am really happy to hear about the walk thru u and Mary did recently.  Let me and Mitch know how we can be of service on follow up stuff.\n\nErik',0,'1','','',0,0),(49,102,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.255.133','2007-01-30 07:28:36','2007-01-30 13:28:36','Fantastic!',0,'1','','',0,2),(50,104,'Erik','erik@cuip.net','','209.175.47.162','2007-02-01 11:09:43','2007-02-01 17:09:43','Great work Sanjaya!  Your modified Boot disk sounds great, as does your desktop wallpaper script.  We should be able to move the images to ray-srv02 but we should run it by Mitch and Mary 1st of course.\n\nErik',0,'1','','',0,0),(51,105,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.247.235','2007-02-04 23:25:06','2007-02-05 05:25:06','The changes that are getting lost &mdash; are you sure that Deep Freeze is off (computer is thawed) when you install them? BTW, Russ came up with a simpler way to bring up the DF password box: hold Shift and double-click on the polar bear icon in the system tray.\n\nIt\'s not the answer you need, but the <i>supplied</i> dictionary is in \"C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxdictionaries\".  It\'s got a basic words file and an affixes file, but the format (altho plain text) has some rather opaque notations in it and I wouldn\'t relish trying to safely edit it by hand.  And anyway it\'s not where words get added when you approve them from the editor:I added some words today but the files in the path above are still timestamped from the program installation.\n\nAre the students using individual logins? If not, you could get your words added by acting as though to post the list in a blog, letting the firefox editor flag them, and choosing Add to Dictionary manually for each. (And I\'m just assuming that this would be per-user.)  Of course, don\'t forget to thaw the computer first.\n\nIf Erin or anybody else reading this wants to track the spellcheck files further, you could look through the routine specified in \"chrome://global/content/inlineSpellCheckUI.js\" for clues.',0,'1','','',0,2),(52,105,'Erin','efranz@uchicago.edu','','209.175.47.162','2007-02-07 14:39:29','2007-02-07 20:39:29','I think part of the problem is that the library4740 doesn\'t have privileges to install certain things even with Deep Freeze off, and installing them with techco or tech4740 doesn\'t seem to work. I haven\'t tried every permutation of these logins with all plugins, but it really seems like a hit-or-miss sort of adventure.',0,'1','','',0,0),(53,109,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.251.189','2007-02-03 09:27:45','2007-02-03 15:27:45','Thanks Bryan, good report as always!  The big networking problem last spring (and into the 1st 1/2 of the summer) was because of a loop created in the IDF plugging &mdash; which either was created :( , :( or (marginally less discouraging &ndash; hence just one frowny face) was accentuated :( when CUIP upgraded the off-the-shelf hubs/switches in the lefthand column of the IDF rack.\nBut that was solved mid-summer (we were on hand for our summer program conducted in the lab ... BTW, see your private email) when an OTS networking guy came by to work on the new switching equipment in the MDF and we pulled him over to the IDF, where he solved the problem within the space of 5 minutes by putting in a crossover cable at a certain place.  \n\nBut you\'re right, there are dead ports in classrooms, not connected with that problem. We haven\'t gotten to the point of finding out whether the spot-failures are in the CBOX switches or in the wiring itself.  In the former case it might help to climb up and try different ports on the switch.  In the latter case it would require probably-exorbitant rewiring.\n\nThe workaround is of course to toss some hubs or mini-switches into the classrooms.  That works okay! The only problems  in general have been (1) excessive daisy-chaining, and (2) teachers not familiar with the hubs/switches re-plugging in computers on their own and not understanding the role of the dedicated <i>uplink</i> port, or the reserved <i>alternate to the uplink</i> port, on the brands which use that system rather than auto adjusting  (or using a manual setting toggle). \n\nSo IMO it\'s a safe strategy to continue throwing some 8-port or even 5-port hubs/mini-switches at the classroom port shortage problem.  Don\'t use any strictly 10MBPS devices, go for the 10/100 or even 100/1000 ones.\n\n  =Mitch\n(also going into email on second thought)',0,'1','','',0,2),(54,112,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.26.196','2007-02-12 11:42:33','2007-02-12 17:42:33','That\'s pretty frustrating about the printer.  From Ari\'s later report it sounds like it hasn\'t gotten any better.  &lt; sgh &gt; It feels like years that we\'ve been waiting for an Ethernet interface for it, too.  (Would you say the sharing scheme for it has been working okay?)',0,'1','','',0,2),(55,114,'Sara','sara@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.94','2007-02-06 12:37:14','2007-02-06 18:37:14','Thanks for reporting!',0,'1','','',0,3),(56,114,'Erik','erik@cuip.net','','24.12.251.101','2007-02-11 16:24:09','2007-02-11 22:24:09','I just wanted to let you know that your reporting notes are simply superb!  Job well done.  That is exactly what we are looking for in our NSP reports.  I hope that some of our other NSPs follow your lead!\n\nIt sounds like you have things under control with Mrs. Sheridan.  Be sure to let me know if you need any help with anything.\n\nErik',0,'1','','',0,0),(57,117,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.247.235','2007-02-06 07:15:15','2007-02-06 13:15:15','Hey, I hadn\'t counted on that many of the skeletons in the Library coming back to life at all, so any progress with the  Compaqs  is something of a bonus!\n\nWill you have a chance to look at issues on the student computers in the <b>Primary</b> Library that EFranz mentioned? If not, let us know and Shaz or I might go by there and check it out. (I keep meaning to reclaim our cheap sound cards that turned out to be extras.)  The main item would be the one that is reported to not accept the techco login. \n\nI\'ll copy you later on some email to ask your reaction about a scheme we\'re thinking of semi-standardizing and \"packaging up\" for a handful of our schools where there are high-maintenance-perceived labs, for establishing a rota among the CUIP characters at that school (and maybe  some school personnel) to check the status of the computers on a regular basis and keep all posted on the results.\n\n   Till Later,\n\n   ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(58,118,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.26.196','2007-02-12 11:38:18','2007-02-12 17:38:18','That\'s good news about the server performance.\n\nWill this week be good for visiting Murray about the desktop background controls?\n\nBTW -- for others who may be reading this -- CUIP now owns two of those external drive enclosures, so if you need to do a salvage-the-files operation at your school like what Sanjaya mentioned, let us know and you can borrow them from the office.',0,'1','','',0,2),(59,119,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-02-09 12:13:43','2007-02-09 18:13:43','Wow, I am filled with admiration for this clean, crisp, concise analysis of the desirable features of a website! Your confidence and positivity are also great to see, and I hope it will help Ms. Sheridan rekindle her enthusiasm for this project.',0,'1','','',0,2),(60,120,'Sara','sara@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.94','2007-02-09 14:50:16','2007-02-09 20:50:16','Thanks for reporting, Mischa!  I found your saved draft from Jan. 19 and published it.  Glad to hear things are going well!',0,'1','','',0,3),(61,121,'Erik','erik@cuip.net','','24.12.251.101','2007-02-13 19:53:40','2007-02-14 01:53:40','Yayan,\n\nThanks for the notes.  I was expecting you last Friday at 1045am but either I missed you or you did not make it.  I know you are pretty good about showing up but be sure to let people know when you cannot make it to the school OK?\n\nI did a blogging PD last Thursday with 5 teachers and Mrs. Gates and I would like you to help them individually with their blogs.  You and I will sit down and I will make sure you are comfortable with the WordPress software.  It\'s fairly straight ahead and you should have no problem picking it up.\n\nmore later,\nErik',0,'1','','',0,0),(62,122,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.26.196','2007-02-12 11:26:34','2007-02-12 17:26:34','Thanks for this report! \n\nAre you feeling OK about the lab-management aspects?  Let us know if we need to scout around some more to find teachers you can work with.',0,'1','','',0,2),(63,123,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.26.196','2007-02-12 11:32:00','2007-02-12 17:32:00','It\'s good to hear about your Dreamweaver progress and Ms Tolbert\'s poetry site.',0,'1','','',0,2),(64,125,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.26.196','2007-02-12 10:53:34','2007-02-12 16:53:34','I\'ll try to stop by the library this week to look at that second-from-the-edge computer. (We don\'t want passwords posted here, but please speak up if you don\'t have the <i>temporary techco password</i> and the <i>antivirus userame and password</i> and would like them. Using either of those, you log in with admin rights and can change the techco password.)  How about the spellcheck pre-loading &mdash; did that work out, or look like more trouble than it would be worth?',0,'1','','',0,2),(65,126,'Erik','erik@cuip.net','','24.12.251.101','2007-02-13 19:34:13','2007-02-14 01:34:13','Duff!\n \nYour last post was great!  HW is never fun but the kids may not mind so much since it can be a lot of fun.  You have some great ideas man.\n \nWe will be meeting tomorrow Wed 2/14 to podcast and you are welcome to join us... please do!  Make sure you squeeze it in while do some other \"tech support\" related stuff so Mary does not think I am trying to steal you away.\n \nErik',0,'1','','',0,0),(66,129,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.254.30','2007-02-13 17:14:00','2007-02-13 23:14:00','Sorry I didn\'t make it there today as planned.  I\'m putting Wadsworth first tomorrow -- can you identify that recalcitrant computer in 221 by number or description, or will Townsend know which you mean?  \n\nNormally we say to take the computer off of all domains (join a made-up workgroup), then from there [maybe with a reboot] join INSTR.  But if it wasn\'t giving you Properties from MyComputer it sounds like a tougher nut to crack.\n\nYou may remember we talked about why the printer script seems to give a lot of errors at login time, but then runs without error when you select it manually a little later.  I\'m speculating that it just takes some time to estabish the network connection, which isn\'t ready when the script tries to run.  So it might help to put a pause into the script.  Iooked up the command today, and it\'s a component of the WScript object called WScript.sleep; it takes a numerical argument which gives the sleep time in milliseconds.  So I hopetobe able to try out a modified script like this:\n\nWScript.Echo \"Before sleep\"                                                                                                        \nWScript.Sleep 15000                                                                                                                 \nWScript.Echo \"After sleep\"                                                                                                         \nSet WSHNetwork = WScript.CreateObject(\"WScript.Network\")                                                                           \n                WSHnetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection \"\\I6300W43818143U221hplj4000\"                                             \n                WSHnetwork.SetDefaultPrinter \"\\I6300W43818143U221hplj4000\"\n\n(Well, the Echo lines are just temporary.)  If the pause improves things we can try to add it where the script is already installed and gives alerts.',0,'1','','',0,2),(67,130,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.254.30','2007-02-13 17:49:24','2007-02-13 23:49:24','It\'s always good to hear from you, X!  BTW, tomorrow we will be at Murray at 12:30 (with Sanjaya) to try this desktop background control system.  \n\nMaybe we should discuss location-based printing for Murray.  The formalisms for it are actually in place already, though it isn\'t much used.',0,'1','','',0,2),(68,136,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.41.0','2007-02-19 17:04:37','2007-02-19 23:04:37','The Burdette site seems to be going great!',0,'1','','',0,2),(69,138,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.20.84','2007-02-18 10:19:17','2007-02-18 16:19:17','It sure looks cleaner and easier than <i><a href=\"http://nu2.nu/bootcd/#multibios\" target=\"new\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bart\'s Almost-Incomprehensible Multiboot CD Page</a></i> (as I think of it)!  Despite my comprehension difficulties with that one,  I\'ve gotten it to work a couple times.  I was then mazed and astonied when trying it out in the field and on some computers it correctly offered a menu but on others went right into the first choice only. Some older BIOSes can\'t handle it, apparently.  So here\'s hoping the Magic ISO people have overcome that.  \n\nIt doesn\'t seem to be freeware.  Did you find a free trial version?  If you paid for it, please get reimbursed! (If it\'s installed at Ray, ask Mary first; otherwise Shaz, who claims he\'s now got this down to a routine :) !)\n  \nI had forgotten about the .bat file at MLA.  Somehow we\'ve been edting a vbs for the outline at least of location-based printing; maybe that was with that same trick of calling the vbs from the bat, though it doesn\'t seem to be there any more.  We\'ve tossed around the idea of replacing the bat file altogether with a vbs on the model of other schools\' GPO logon scripts; maybe this is a good prompt to get that done.  On the security issue, probably it can be set read/execute by Everyone but not modify?  Anyway, thanks a bunch for this roving contribution!',0,'1','','',0,2),(70,138,'sanjaya','sanjaya@uchicago.edu','http://','128.135.121.92','2007-02-18 16:30:27','2007-02-18 22:30:27','The free trail version works fine if you are using it with an image that is under 300 MB. At most I\'m using 20 MB on these CDs so lets hope the trial versions does not expire after a certain number of days.',0,'1','','',0,9),(71,142,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-03-26 11:18:10','2007-03-26 17:18:10','Thank you for working so consistently on this over several weeks, and for exercising judgement and good taste, and presenting your results so clearly!  Yes, it puts me in exclamatory mode!  \n\nI\'ll get back to you in email about next steps.  I\'m pushing for next week (CPS Spring Break) for doing general version-updates on server blogs2.  The TRA staff will be able to offer keyboard-based hard-labor on Thursday and Friday of that week, so we want to get things in order for that.  We may not get to redistributing the revised/fixed themes collection to existing standalone blogs in that time frame, but at any rate we should immediately revise the files from which new standalone blogs are populated.  \n\nDefinitely I agree that Vistared Little and Tiga are worth saving/repairing.  Do you think it might be one of these deals where a theme assumes a plugin (\"recent comments\") is present and activated?  They\'re supposed to code a conditional around a fragment using a function introduced in a plugin, but maybe we have these themes in versions antedating that standard.  [Which would mean it\'s worth checking the versions on themes, something I\'ve been avoiding thinking about.]\n\nGood job and thanks again!',0,'1','','',0,2),(72,143,'Erin','efranz@uchicago.edu','http://','128.135.100.35','2007-02-21 23:54:08','2007-02-22 05:54:08','Passing out a list of project ideas sounds like a really good plan for your situation. If you decide to write this up, I (and I\'m sure others) would find it quite helpful if you were to post it on the reporting blog!',0,'1','','',0,8),(73,145,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-02-23 17:07:27','2007-02-23 23:07:27','The demo is indeed a very clean-feeling site!  Will the pictures go in the upper-right color block, or various places on the pages?',0,'1','','',0,2),(74,145,'Dawei','dawei@uchicago.edu','http://','128.135.88.107','2007-02-23 18:50:17','2007-02-24 00:50:17','You guessed it. If you refresh the page, the color block will change color. Later that will be replaced with images.',0,'1','','',0,26),(75,148,'Erik','erik@cuip.net','','24.12.251.101','2007-03-08 21:06:20','2007-03-09 03:06:20','Great job Sanjaya!  and thanks for creating the image check list.\n\nErik',0,'1','','',0,0),(76,148,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.248.158','2007-03-09 03:07:26','2007-03-09 09:07:26','And ... Congratulations on your plans with the NYC TF program!',0,'1','','',0,2),(77,149,'Erik','erik@cuip.net','','24.12.251.101','2007-02-25 16:18:43','2007-02-25 22:18:43','Bryan, \nThanks for the notes.  Did you happen to see excatly what the OTS guys did?  Like specifically what piece of equipment did they reset?\n\nErik',0,'1','','',0,0),(78,155,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.44.254','2007-02-25 21:38:09','2007-02-26 03:38:09','Thanks for getting those wireless cards working.  At some point they must have had a full complement; what a shame if the rest have really gone missing!\n\nLet\'s check with Ms. Johnson, but subject to her approval I would suggest, on your two pending questions:\n <ul>\n  	<li>* The infected computers, if they cna\'t easily be cleaned up (and I know you\'ve already put in plenty of effort), could just be wiped and given a fresh OS install.</li>\n\n  	<li> * The WAP access point might as well have the standard CPS wireless setup.  I\'ll send you the specifics.</li>\n\n</ul>\n\n\n==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(79,155,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.44.254','2007-02-25 21:43:31','2007-02-26 03:43:31','And here\'s a related question, for anyone: If the school wants to provide wireless for those older laptops, would you stick with PCMCIA or go to USB?',0,'1','','',0,2),(80,161,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-02-28 13:44:36','2007-02-28 19:44:36','I\'m glad to hear that you\'re getting into a variety of activities and projects.  \n\nIf some of that downloading time was a matter of repeat downloads of the same thing to different computers, let\'s make sure you have access to the \"Installers\" share on the school fileserver, which can save some time with that.  And if you don\'t have a USB flash drive (or don\'t care to use your personal one for this job), let Erik or me know and we\'ll get one to you.  [I know sometimes the repetitive downloads can\'t be helped, say if the installer is mostly a downloader.  But I\'m just speaking in generalities here...]\n\nSome of our schools have done poetry-related projects.  Here\'s one example:  http://cuip.net/~atolbert/ .  I\'ll look forward to seeing more about how the project at Murray is progressing!\n\n  ==mitch\n(former English major)',0,'1','','',0,2),(81,166,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.248.158','2007-03-02 19:32:11','2007-03-03 01:32:11','a quick note for now ... on those driver issues, you might want to do a <i>chipset</i> installation first.  [\"First\"? ... sometimes it\'s \"instead\".] I\'ll mail or upload somewhere the Intel chipset detectors.',0,'1','','',0,2),(82,169,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-03-05 16:56:21','2007-03-05 22:56:21','Russ will be back tomorrow, and may be able to advise on the LanStar situation.  I\'ll just mention that the \"different subnets\" message was not necessarily wrong despite the IP evidence: you can have devices on different physical subnets with the same apparent IP network, and the LanStar grouping may have expected same physical subnet.',0,'1','','',0,2),(83,169,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-03-08 18:02:19','2007-03-09 00:02:19','Erik and Trevor report that the LanStar patch for XP fixed these noted problems.',0,'1','','',0,2),(84,170,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.248.158','2007-03-03 04:37:10','2007-03-03 10:37:10','Yes, it\'s oddly common to get that sort of \"Oh, none of it works\" report, then discover for yourself that the report was exaggerated or out of date.',0,'1','','',0,2),(85,171,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-03-05 16:50:32','2007-03-05 22:50:32','Hey Dawei, I\'m running out of steam for today, but I wanted to say thanks for your report, and let you know last Tuesday I incorporated your delivered pages into Ms Sheridan\'s DW site and we uploaded them.  I need to check with you about some specifics of the plan, prior to the Friday afternoon meeting.  I know this is a busy week for you, so I\'ll try to keep to a brief and to-the-point email.',0,'1','','',0,2),(86,172,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-03-05 16:45:47','2007-03-05 22:45:47','Thanks for checking in with Ms Sudduth.  She won\'t often have anything for you, but she is the TechCo and we like having her confident that the whole CUIP team for Till is available to help her, if and when.\n\nI appreciate the work you\'re doing on the themes.  When I emailed you on this, I was having a generally grouchy day; I hope the message wasn\'t too negative in fact ... it wasn\'t negative in intention.',0,'1','','',0,2),(87,176,'Erik','erik@cuip.net','','24.12.251.101','2007-03-08 20:27:53','2007-03-09 02:27:53','Great job Ariel!  I will add these Dells to the list to get fixed.\n\nErik',0,'1','','',0,0),(88,181,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.248.158','2007-03-10 06:20:17','2007-03-10 12:20:17','You\'re doing a real good job, Dawei, both in the design/tech work itself, and in helping keep the \"collaborative conversation\" going in a way that always remains friendly, productive, and on-track.',0,'1','','',0,2),(89,189,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.4.18','2007-03-20 06:53:52','2007-03-20 12:53:52','Thanks for filling in these multiple weeks,and getting us up to date on what\'s happening at Woodson. At some point we should \"complete the circuit\" and have Sara or Shaz or me describe the library projects or Dr. Arnall\'s advanced classroom parameters; maybe you can be involved with those or similar developments, when spring quarter gets going.  BTW, Sara is stepping in as the CUIP Staff primary contact for Woodson.\n\nI admire your thoroughness in catching up on missing weekly reports!  But I hope you don\'t feel <i>obliged</i> to file reports for weeks when you couldn\'t be there; these aren\'t matched up against your time cards or anything like that, they\'re just to keep CUIP staff and directors informed of the activities at schools.  (Nothing wrong with you doing it this way,either,and I must say it\'s kind of numerically satisfying to see entries for each week lined up like that!)',0,'1','','',0,2),(90,200,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.241.31','2007-04-08 06:57:19','2007-04-08 12:57:19','Wow, that <i>is</i> quite a feature! So you\'re able to save that defined map and make it accessible by a public permalink?  \n\nIf people make a comparison with the text description (at http://www.ray.cps.k12.il.us/boundaries/boundaries.htm) you can see that there is no comparison! As has been observed down the ages, the picture communicates more and more-directly.  Only if you live on a boundary street and need to see ëven side\" or \"both sides\" spelled out, would the text version be a useful adjunct.\n\nAnd seeing the map also makes clear the oddity of the neighborhood attendance system together with the options.  The text version notes that Shoesmith, Murray,and Harte are optional choices for some of the eligible-for-Ray area, but neither the text nor the map specifies where the options are or how they work.  Well that\'s okay,parents will need to consult other resources in any event.  Still it\'s odd to notice (implicit in the text but clear on the map) that the Ray-eligible area actually includes the location of the Murray school building itself!',0,'1','','',0,2),(91,205,'Russ','russ@cuip.net','','216.80.44.111','2007-04-14 08:11:19','2007-04-14 14:11:19','When this sort of thing happens (no teacher shows up), Chris, you should not stay in the room.  You should report that there is no teacher to the principal or to Mr. Jones.  The school is responsible for the classroom, not you.\n\nRuss',0,'1','','',0,0),(92,216,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.32.237','2007-04-21 05:58:38','2007-04-21 11:58:38','Good idea!  We definitely could use Ghost to propagate a good image.  We in fact did so to an extent last summer for Entrepreneurship, and stored the images on a desktop machine pressed into service as a Windows Server 2003, which now is in the shared Library Office as their Athena server (catalog / circulation system).  \n\nIf you get caught up in other matters and are eager to get started on this, you could do that by arranging with Mr. Ruffin and/or Russ to set up a computer (of the predominant model of Dell) somewhere it won\'t be in use by students yet will be close to a network port so it can be remediated and Windows-Updated (and will be handy if we go the network/server method).  But keep it off the network, physically unplugged, except when you are working on it.  Get it set up with a clean desktop and correct suite of programs in use at the school, OTS remediated, local users [including a backdoor  admin user called CUIP with password that Russ or I will tell or send you] -- I\'m sure you know what i mean, getting the computer set up to be just-so.\n\nPlease don\'t go any further than that until we can pull this group together for a little planning, and details you may not have run across yet -- such as how to use Sysprep and why we need to....  Here\'s a quicklist of some decision points:\n<ul>\n <li> How would a re-imaging system be used in the school?  set-up of these units being pulled out of storage?  Emergency \"repair\" of recalcitrant misconfigured machines already in place?  General periodic site-wide reimaging?\n <li> Full Sysprep or only the little SSID-changer tool?\n <li> Network+server image storage, or portable HDD, or both in some mixture?  [BTW, thanks but we can\'t use anybody\'s personal portable drive for this -- ideally the school already owns one, or would buy one (or the two schools could go in on this together) -- failing that, CUIP would bring in one of ours.)  I tend to like the network+server idea, despite being slower than USB 2, just because a whole server is less likely than a portable drive to be misplaced or loaned-out or get stuck onto somebody\'s desktop computer as a \"temporary\" storage expansion unit :).\n<li> Stick with generic and simple setup of bootdisks, so that anybody who has been shown it before or has the simple printed instructions can use the system; or go for an elaborate setup which automates some of the input and seems to make it easier for the users in the short term but is actually somewhat fragile?\n <li> Would Leadership and Entrepreneurship want to participate jointly? \n</ul>',0,'1','','',0,2),(93,220,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.254.67','2007-04-23 17:13:16','2007-04-23 23:13:16','Yay!',0,'1','','',0,2),(94,229,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.28.118','2007-04-27 20:35:30','2007-04-28 02:35:30','Interesting problem situation ... sounds like you\'re handling it with tact ... but maybe Erik and I can help with a tech consult next week.  \n\nIs \"scratch disk\" your description or part of the system terminology?  (What sort of system is this, anyway?)  Have you run across the pre-Internet computer saying \"always mount a scratch monkey\"? \n\nhttp://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/s/scratchmonkey.html',0,'1','','',0,2),(95,236,'bryan','bduff@uchicago.edu','http://','128.135.223.29','2007-05-14 11:04:20','2007-05-14 17:04:20','Hey Dawei\n\nThe new website looks great and all the teachers have given me the impression that it\'s a big hit with them.  Nice work.  We need to get together sometime.\n\nBryan - fellow CUIP Ray staff',0,'1','','',0,10),(96,240,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.3.197','2007-05-07 17:26:04','2007-05-07 23:26:04','hi, Jimmy -- thanks for your good work in all these areas -- I have a quick comment on just one aspect though...\n\nEven if you\'ve taken the erroneous printer(s) out of the VBSscript, that won\'t remove them from the Printers folder, for the users who have at some point already logged in under an old script and had those added.  One way to get rid of them would be manually, while they\'re logged in.  Another might be to find a VBS command along the lines of <i>delete</i>printerconnection() and toss that in. \n\nAnother approach would betostop trying to get rid of the listing and instead get them to be valid.',0,'1','','',0,2),(97,243,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-05-14 10:57:11','2007-05-14 16:57:11','Hi Melissa -- Thanks for your consistent reporting.  I\'m very glad to hear you\'re still enjoying both aspects of the job but are able to do more with the kids.  I\'m looking forward to seeing the new old lab!',0,'1','','',0,2),(98,244,'Russ','russ@cuip.net','','128.135.76.89','2007-05-14 10:52:05','2007-05-14 16:52:05','nate,\n\ngood job.  it is nice to know we (me and mr. jones) can count on you at fuller!!\n\nruss',0,'1','','',0,0),(99,246,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-05-14 10:41:53','2007-05-14 16:41:53','Hi, Ariel -- I\'ll respond more fully in email (or in person, Tuesday?).  But briefly: temporarily, you can log on to that server using the account we were using with the Bart\'s network disk.  We can also set up a CPS INSTR account for you though it won\'t be in the Leadership OU.',0,'1','','',0,2),(100,247,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-05-14 10:54:09','2007-05-14 16:54:09','I guess printing technology actually does advance ... but paper jams apparently will always be with us.  And I mustn\'t get nostalgic over continuous-form pin-and-sprocket systems either &mdash; they maybe didn\'t jam as much as today\'s single-sheet feeds, but had their own dumb problems! \n\nApparently the networking problems in White\'s / Teague\'s / Moyenda\'s classrooms have been solved (by replacement of the switch in the concentrator box in Teague\'s room).  I only got to check in and verify that things look okay from their point of view with two of the three stars in that constellation.  So if you have the opportunity to ask Ms. White, please do inquire.  Thanks!',0,'1','','',0,2),(101,251,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-05-21 10:47:17','2007-05-21 16:47:17','Author response!  That\'s quite cool.',0,'1','','',0,2),(102,254,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.19.223','2007-05-21 06:50:16','2007-05-21 12:50:16','hi Louisa -- Thanks for your work at the school, and for this heads up about the videos in Ms Ludlow\'s blog.  See the email I sent for a  more complete response.  For right now this is more something to deal with at the viewing end than the source end, though it also could eventually be helped by use of a  different video format.    As an after-the-Expo idea, we can help them move away from [assigning you to] manually setting Favorites and Bookmarks at each computer by keeping an easily-updated student resources links page and setting just that one, once only, at the computers.',0,'1','','',0,2),(103,265,'Ben Hyman','bhyman@uchicago.edu','http://','128.135.171.73','2007-10-19 16:31:58','2007-10-19 22:31:58','Ben H as a category may very well be \"Ben Horowitz\"...is this true?',0,'1','','',0,34),(104,265,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.243.148','2007-10-19 16:59:34','2007-10-19 22:59:34','No, it was meant for you!',0,'1','','',0,2),(105,265,'Russ','russ@cuip.net','','76.197.162.224','2007-10-21 07:11:43','2007-10-21 13:11:43','Keep up the good work Ben.  Remember...a little hard labor never hurt any CUIP NSP!',0,'1','','',0,0),(106,266,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.243.148','2007-10-22 21:25:11','2007-10-23 03:25:11','I\'m counting on the Common Core experience here to find someone who will identify the writings that Zhang may be styling his prose from!',0,'1','','',0,2),(107,266,'Russ','russ@cuip.net','','128.135.219.158','2007-10-26 14:08:32','2007-10-26 20:08:32','Keep up the good work.  And remember to ask if there is anything I can do to help you.',0,'1','','',0,0),(108,267,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.243.148','2007-10-22 06:14:01','2007-10-22 12:14:01','Thanks, Dana!  Sounds like a lot of work.  \n\nI\'m sorry you had to search around for an Acer Restore disk,  Along with those, we have a couple other options, including Ghost images for those Acer models with CPS setup already in place.  \n\nLast time I was there with you and Sara, I got pulled into some followup tasks.  This Wednesday I\'ll try to meet you at Fermi and see if we can find the right resources for some of the questions implicit in your report.\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(109,269,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.243.148','2007-10-22 06:05:22','2007-10-22 12:05:22','Congrats on the post-season progress your Cubbies made this year!  (Even though it still doesn\'t match the 05 Sox :)',0,'1','','',0,2),(110,270,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.243.148','2007-10-22 06:01:45','2007-10-22 12:01:45','Thanks for your report, and for the underlying good work you\'re doing!\n\nThere are a couple schools using high-priced lab-management and workstation-control tools, and this ITalc may be a good substitute.  Probably Russ will be in touch with Joe for some demo or consultation.  But please let us know observations and comments of your perspective.\n\n(I mean Hi-Class and LAN-Manager[??], not the CPS-enterprise Deep Freeze, which is a separate matter even though the DF console does offer sme of the same remote-logout-or-reboot and who-is-signed-on facilities.)',0,'1','','',0,2),(111,271,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.243.148','2007-10-22 21:19:44','2007-10-23 03:19:44','Sounds like things are going okay!  I was planning to visit at Fermi with both you and Dana on Wednesday, but that schedule isn\'t working out so well.  \n\nThe description of Mr. Orekoya\'s student computers sounds like you\'ve found out about the \"diplomatic answer\" side of the work. Indeed, if a problem is not readily reproducible there is little we can do about it, and a reboot can help in mysterious cases.  :)  The slowness many stations at Fermi experience might be helped by a disk defragmentation or adware-removal; but sometimes seems a mismatch between the hardware and what it\'s asked to support.\n\nWas that Mrs. Alexander (like, room 222 or so?) who has the going-to-sleep problems?  Checking the power settings, as you mention, is the right approach; but I don\'t know why it doesn\'t get right!   \n\n==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(112,276,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.243.148','2007-10-29 09:22:08','2007-10-29 15:22:08','Hey Ben,\n\nAlong with Russ\'s good email answers to your questions, I\'ve posted some details about Windows 98 upgrades at http://techwiki.cuip.net/Windows_98\n\nI don\'t follow the details of your INSTR student-login work, but maybe we can look at it in person.  The only thing I need to say urgently about it is, this isn\'t the time or situation yet to create any new accounts in the student space.  We\'re discussing whether and how schools can do that without getting in the way of official steps (and getting in hot water).  \n\n  == Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(113,276,'Ben','bhyman@uchicago.edu','','128.135.171.73','2007-10-29 22:29:24','2007-10-30 04:29:24','Hey Mitch,\n\nThere\'s no way I\'d create new accounts in the student space without checking with you first. The accounts I was asked to \"create\" already existed in the first place, so I simply tried disabling and then enabling them. I\'ll find out tomorrow whether that was successful.\n\n-Ben',0,'1','','',0,0),(114,276,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.243.148','2007-10-30 06:30:53','2007-10-30 12:30:53','I\'m glad you were able to try helping her out with these logins. I\'ll brief you about our progress in trying to sort out the issue of *missing* student logins. \n\n I\'m not sure she received the better version of the password list (my fault -- I just emailed it instead of printing it out), so there may be some unclarity about what\'s the actual password formulation or a particular student usernames.  \n\nLet\'s generate a new listing, get a printout into her hands (or in some protected form in the lab if you can come up with that), and verify for some sample students.  Also we can put ADUC program on a selected XP station to reduce the need for Remote Desktop inconveniences.',0,'1','','',0,2),(115,276,'Ben','bhyman@uchicago.edu','','209.175.47.162','2007-10-30 07:56:18','2007-10-30 13:56:18','I get how to generate a new listing, but there\'s no way I\'d  be able to put down the password formulation, is there? Also, the only usernames I see are the entries in the \"Pre-Windows 2000 Logon\" field.\n\nIt\'s actually not too much of an inconvenience having to use Remote Desktop.\n\nAlso, can I create new accounts in the \"Local Temporary\" space?',0,'1','','',0,0),(116,279,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.243.148','2007-10-29 09:13:47','2007-10-29 15:13:47','Thanks for your report!  \n\nYour notes about the printer on the Windows 98 computers rotting away upstairs :) prompted an email and techwiki posting, available at http://techwiki.cuip.net/Windows_98 .  I don\'t know if Ms. Warden has one of those CPS-prelicensed Windows 2000 installer disks ready to hand, but if not, Russ or I can get one to her (or relay via you).',0,'1','','',0,2),(117,282,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.250.137','2007-10-31 07:33:38','2007-10-31 13:33:38','Hi, ZZ --\n\nAs I said in email, I\'m glad you\'re asking about locally-stored docs and maybe special programs, before pushing ahead with a re-imaging or OS-reinstall.  If it\'s a classroom computer, do make a point of asking the teacher.  But in general it\'s going to be okay at Ray, from the combination of the \"computer culture\" in the building and the technical setup &mdash; they are used to having computers reimaged, and many users had network storage automatically and knew not to save to the local desktop etc.  \n\nYou\'re right that the techco password is likely too widely distributed.   But it requires a big foofaraw with the Central Office to get it changed for a school, so the best approach is just to minimize the general user\'s exposure to that sign-in.  For instance, if there is time, after working on a host as TechCo, do another login as a non-priv user, and log off that way, just for the sake of leaving that as the evident sign-on for the next person who comes to the computer.\n\nThanks for your good report and good work!\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(118,283,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.250.137','2007-10-31 07:42:19','2007-10-31 13:42:19','Hey, Dana, it sounds real good!  I\'m glad to hear you got Mrs Alexander\'s far-corner computer on the network ... we\'ve been messing with that since the summer.  If Emily\'s fix to the screensaver/hibernation issue on Mrs A\'s main computer holds up, we\'ll have a happy Literacy Specialist (?).  Also i was worrying that the office printer might not have a good usb cable  (I didn\'t know about the driver issue), so I\'m pleased to hear it\'s printing okay.\n\nThanks,\n==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(119,284,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.250.137','2007-10-31 07:24:55','2007-10-31 13:24:55','That wasn\'t my own Accord, it was traded-in last year.  :)\n\nIf you\'re seriously going to start wading thru that scary cabinet, let\'s get you a practice session with Ghost.  Dana can show you that, if your schedules overlap; or you can check with Sara or me.  It isn\'t the absolute solution, but at Fermi where we have good images it is a good approach.\n\nIs this Dr. Sima in a first-floor office at the east end of the north corridor?  I may be thinking of him under a different spelling.  If it\'s the same person, get the \"rings and things\" story from Sara sometime!\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(120,286,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-10-31 11:40:40','2007-10-31 17:40:40','Boo!\n\n(I forebore from costuming up today, altho when I go around entering semi-authorized license keys I feel it wouldn\'t be amiss to have the parrot, eyepatch, and pegleg.)\n\nThe \"PC\" terminology has been argued ever since 1984 or so.  Some people coined \"Wintel\" (from Windows and Intel) as the quick name for that kind of computer, but I don\'t much care for it -- and it\'s even less meaningful now that Macs have Intel processors.  Simply \"Windows\" isn\'t a bad choice.  \n\nIt\'s good to hear that you\'re learning your way around the people and places at Till!\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(121,287,'Jackson','smitethis@gmail.com','','209.175.47.162','2007-11-16 07:09:07','2007-11-16 13:09:07','I\'d like to thank Russ for beating some sense into the printer.',0,'1','','',0,0),(122,288,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.249.225','2007-11-05 07:04:13','2007-11-05 13:04:13','Hi, Han, thanks for your report!  I stopped by at Shoesmith last week but saw only Mr. Willis, so I appreciate hearing about all the other aspects going on there.\n\nThey used to be very big on AR but as you observe have let it go downhill :( . But before you invest much work in updating the enrollments and so on, please check that they are in fact interested in resuming an active program with AR.  Also see if there is a teacher or admin ready to be the key contact for AR, for both you and the classroom teachers.  If it isn\'t the A.P. Ms Gates, you could ask Ms Washington about this if you know her.  (Ms Washington was the point person for AR in a previous year.)\n\nFor sound recording and editing we\'ve had a lot of interest in Audacity.  (It needs a plugin called \"LAME\" to produce mp3\'s.)  For embedding a player in Wordpress blogs, there is Podpress.\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(123,288,'sara','sara@cuip.net','','76.16.124.144','2007-11-05 18:22:04','2007-11-06 00:22:04','Han,\n\nMs. Washington (librarian) asked me about updating AR the other day.  I am meeting with her on Wednesday to start a blog and to look at AR.  I\'ll be there around 1:00.',0,'1','','',0,0),(124,288,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.249.225','2007-11-08 09:19:01','2007-11-08 15:19:01','We heard from Sara that Han and Mr Willis have been working on the AR setup.  Thanks, Han!\n\n==mitch\n\n(also .... testing threaded comments)',0,'1','','',0,2),(125,289,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.250.137','2007-11-03 03:46:33','2007-11-03 09:46:33','Hi, Ben!\n\nThe 98\'s should be trembling in their shoes!  As Russ\'s  and my notes last week indicated, nobody really looks on them kindly any more. If the hardware won\'t support an upgrade of OS, we should look into some computer analogue of putting them out to pasture; or at any rate letting the teacher (and school tech contact) that the computer is considered unsupported.\n\n(I don\'t know if it\'s in Jackson\'s report, but he unearthed a <i>95</i> box at Mollison this week!)\n\nYes, we should add a techco account if there isn\'t one.  You can  do so manually, or use the Install Standard Users utility from Canter-adm01.  There\'s something a little circular to overcome, if there\'s no techco account and your privileged INSTR account isn\'t working etc etc, we have to get into it as an admin of some sort to then privilege-up the techco account, or perform joining it to INSTR domain (which will in turn give admin status to INSTRGG-Tech-Canter group accounts including yours).  There are a couple viable options; later on that ...\n\nIn a way I\'m glad you ran into the problem with shared-from-computer printers in the context of multiple logins &mdash; not that I wish that frustration on you, but it spares me from trying to discuss in the abstract the motivation for a somewhat more-complicated-looking approach with a login script to add the printer. \n\nEither Russ or I can show you about adding a blog for those Sp.Ed. teachers within http://cuipblogs.org .  If they just want to get acquainted with the idea and practice, that\'s great.  If they already have some ideas about class participation and how to work it, see if the timing can work out so you can join in a session with Russ planning with them;  he\'s been developing and refining a dialogue with teachers to figure whether they would want a regular blog, or something specialized, whether hosted by us or a service, whether a wiki might suit better, etc.\n\nIt seems that things are going pretty swimmingly!  Don\'t be put off by the delays in the process of picking up the stitches on the various tech details that come up.\n\n Thanks,\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(126,290,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.250.137','2007-11-03 03:08:38','2007-11-03 09:08:38','My guess about that printer driver has also been Finnish, or (related) Estonian.  What makes no sense at all is that we have previously downloaded a new one and replaced it!  More than once. If it were still Halloween I\'d say the computer is haunted.  So I\'d like to re-image that computer or do a clean OS install; but apart from the printer weirdness the host seems functional. \n\nIt\'s great to hear Fermi is working out so well for you! \"Go, Nuclei!\"',0,'1','','',0,2),(127,292,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.249.225','2007-11-05 07:21:38','2007-11-05 13:21:38','I think you\'ll find TechKnow a lot of fun and rewarding, once  they get past the quizzing-from-the-book stage and start actually working at the computers.  If it gets to the point that even two adults isn\'t enough, give a holler and Russ or I can be available for that.  \n\n ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(128,294,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.249.225','2007-11-05 06:49:13','2007-11-05 12:49:13','Thanks, Dana!  \n\nI haven\'t followed the whole story, but part of the situation with Publisher is that the teachers are all expected to produce monthly classroom newsletters (to send home to parents), and Publisher has been their tool of choice for this.  Thus, getting it installed in the Resource Room and some classrooms is a nontrivial part of a mandated school goal.   \n\n(Meanwhile, Sara and Shaz are discussing with the school admins how far online presence might replace paper-based parent communications.  But it\'s good that they can say \"Installing Publisher isn\'t the issue ... that\'s taken care of.\")\n\nYes, Emily also mentioned that printer with the mysteriously foreign text in the driver.  (If not random or a virus, my guess is something in the Finno-Ugric famly.) It\'s somewhat amusing but also pretty annoying!  I think last year we downloaded a fresh driver from the printer manufacturer\'s site (is it an HP?) but it didn\'t seem to make any difference; still, that\'s something to try again before altogether re-imaging the computer.\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(129,298,'russ','russ@cuip.net','','128.135.76.89','2007-11-12 08:33:42','2007-11-12 14:33:42','I was able to remedy both of those problems in Ms. Monroe\'s room.\n\nI used an HP network printer finder program\n\nhttp://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Home.jsp?lang=en&amp;cc=us&amp;prodTypeId=18972&amp;prodSeriesId=27908\n\nto identify the printer, ip address, and install.\n\nFor the missing start and stuff, i rebooted and logged in as another user and then logged off and logged in as the generic user they use there.',0,'1','','',0,0),(130,300,'sara','sara@cuip.net','','128.135.76.94','2007-11-12 09:14:12','2007-11-12 15:14:12','Han, if you can get a ride on the van that early, I\'ll meet you there.  Otherwise I\'ll pick you up on campus.  Please let me know what the situation is after you talk to the van drivers.',0,'1','','',0,0),(131,301,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.249.225','2007-11-11 20:02:07','2007-11-12 02:02:07','Hi, Ben.  Thanks for the report, and for all the good work underlying it.  Something like the labels wll pay off quite soon, when you start getting notes from teachers about specific computers and there is less guesswork about which one they mean.  \n\nIt\'s fine for you to have a list of the teachers\' addresses, but keep in mnd that they vary like many another population in the regularity and frequency of checking their email.  Those you end up working with directly should of course have and use your own email address/  But in terms of circulating a tech contact or tech request address, probably we should make it an impersonal alias like canter-tech@cuip.net and have that expand to go to you, Russ, me, and probably Ms. Ahad.\n\nIf you are getting the \"insufficient resources\" error message for loading profiles or starting basic programs like explorer.exe or userinit.exe, see my comment to Emily\'s Fermi report.  If there\'s actally a squeeze of space on the system drive (C normally) ad you can login as techco, try improving the space on C by moving junk to D and deleting temp items; maybe also changing where the pagefile is kept, and increasing the VM size.  If that doesn\'t seem to be the problem, sometimes deleting a local profile copy and letting it re-create it can help.  Finally, increasing the real memory is bound to improve things, if there is spare RAM around.  \n\nWe didn\'t actally get back to the room where the shared printer setup came up.  Let me know if there are still glitches and if it would be any help to have me come over and look at it with you, this time from the classroom perspective.  \n\nThanks,\n\n  ==mtch',0,'1','','',0,2),(132,306,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.249.225','2007-11-11 20:14:49','2007-11-12 02:14:49','I can\'t believe I\'m excitedly looking forward to a children\'s movie, but indeed <i>The Golden Compass</i> is doing that for me, and while I\'m not rereading that series right now I do have some other Pullman books.  So when you observe that <font size=\"+3\" color=\"maroon\"><i><b>DUST</b></i></font> can interfere with computer operations, I have to agree ... on both practical and metaphysical levels!  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(133,307,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.249.225','2007-11-11 19:13:03','2007-11-12 01:13:03','Thanks, Dana!  I\'m glad to hear you were able to resolve the computer issues and connections for 116.  i particularly liked hearing that one of them was solvable without going all the way to a Ghostng solution.  See my direct email for USB keyboards.  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(134,307,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.249.225','2007-11-11 19:26:39','2007-11-12 01:26:39','Also, please see my remark about RAM in the comment on Emily\'s report. http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/11/week-seven-more-likeumweak-seven/#comment-135 (At one time we had a little Tupperware-type container labelled \"Fermi RAM\" \") )',0,'1','','',0,2),(135,308,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.249.225','2007-11-11 19:23:42','2007-11-12 01:23:42','Thanks, Emily!  I\'m beginning to think the widespread \"insufficient resources\" errors that started last week may be neither a genuine virus nor malformed update, but an intended and mostly-working update which however is very demanding on the computers.  \nThis would fit wth the success Russ and Zhang have had with this or apparently related problems by  increasing the actual RAM.  We should start looking in that direction for Fermi, by collecting RAM from the Acers in the big cabinet that aren\'t good candidates for fixing up themselves.  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(136,310,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-11-16 17:46:34','2007-11-16 23:46:34','Hi, Ben!\n\nRuss or I will send you some interesting educational-aimed blogs you can share with her if further inspiration is in order.  Also, if your directions are content-oriented, please don\'t skip the more-technical options-setup steps listed on our wiki, at http://techwiki.cuip.net/Blog_setup .  \n\n(As noted in a posting here, we have put a privacy password on the CUIP TechWiki.  You can use the nsp username with the same elemental password you use on the reporting blog; if you need to give a teacher a password for it, use username \"teacher\" and password \"Web2Teach\".)\n\nWhat is ChildServe?  Let us know if it\'s something interesting and worth sharing with other teachers.  (I should have started by asking, Is it free?)   From the description of your installation procedure, maybe you were overlooking putting the shortcut into the All Users desktop.  If you\'re not entirely familiar with that, let Russ or me show you; or if you want to look for yourself, it corresponds to a folder in the filesystem somewhere like C:DocumentsAndSettingsAllUsersDesktop .\n\nNope, as you suspect the teachers\' passwords aren\'t generated to pattern like the students\' passwords.  They are individually and freely chosen (subject to the complexity constraint and non-repetition), and expire after about six weeks, when they are prompted to choose another.  For the most part you want to avoid knowing any teacher\'s password!\n\nSure, I\'d be interested in seeing the vbs you used, whether sent in email or posted.  If you are inclined to post to the CUIP TechWiki, I\'ve started a stub page called Login Scripts.  .http://techwiki.cuip.net/Login_scripts.\n\nI don\'t know if E1 is the same one I\'m thinking of, but indeed some of those NSIT Dells take a perverse delight in working or stopping unpredictably, and just when you think you have tamed them!\n\nThanks a lot!\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(137,311,'sara','sara@cuip.net','','128.135.76.94','2007-11-16 16:14:52','2007-11-16 22:14:52','Good call on deleting the \"Chris Brown my boo\" file.  That\'s pretty funny...\n\nThanks for taking care of Mrs. Cranley\'s project today.  I hope you had some fun with that.  I\'m glad that showing her how to upload the pictures is part of your plan.\n\nI will create Ms. Lee\'s blog right now.  Thanks again!',0,'1','','',0,0),(138,311,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-11-16 16:31:09','2007-11-16 22:31:09','CUIP is responsible for Mr. Willis\'s disappearance on Wednesday! :)  We invited him to a meeting.  \n\nThanks for an interesting report, and for the underlying work; it\'s good that you\'re keeping track of the different kinds of blogging resources.',0,'1','','',0,2),(139,312,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-11-16 16:39:45','2007-11-16 22:39:45','As I mentioned in email,  there are a lot of interesting things to be overheard in classrooms, sometimes inspiring, sometimes disturbing, sometimes just funny.              \n\nI\'m glad to hear you were able to find and fix a variety of classroom-computer problems.  That\'s the sort of thing we always mean to get to but often put off repeatedly.    \n\nFollowing up on your thought of getting Deep Freeze in the lab and our subsequent emails on this idea, let\'s bring it up with the school administration as a suggested action-item.  I\'ll try to meet you there on Monday and maybe we can take a few minutes with Ms. Kenan and if she approves, get the wheels turning for this.  \n\nThanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(140,316,'sara','sara@cuip.net','','128.135.76.94','2007-11-16 16:09:37','2007-11-16 22:09:37','I\'m glad to hear that the increased RAM did the trick!  Thanks for the report!',0,'1','','',0,0),(141,317,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-11-16 17:07:15','2007-11-16 23:07:15','That was indeed sad news about Mr. Ellington.\n\nRuss described for our staff meeting the new computers given to the library and the consequent move of the Macs and some Dells out to classrooms.  We have a few spare on-the-cheap USB keyboards; check with Russ about getting a couple from the CUIP storeroom.  Also available are standard powercords.\n\nAlso we can try the \"Norwegian Disk\" on the computer with no admin login.    (Did you try the temp/preliminary password for techco?  And check the computer\'s network name -- if the unit number part of that is for one of the other South Shore constituent schools, it may have gotten their school-specific techco password.)\n\nOn your question (2), you\'re welcome to use any of the images on that portable HD; inclkuding from other school folders, but I suspect there may not be any suitable for that model, and some may lack the Office software anyway.  There may be one on the library server, too.   But if you do find something promising and Ghost from it, please remember to rename the computer right away.  \n\nI meant to comment last week on printer addressing.  The HP tool is pretty nifty!  As you probably are already taking into consideration, the point is not just to <i>find out</i> the address it has picked up (and use it for connecting computers to that printer), but to include in there a step of deciding whether the address is suitable and if not, changing it.  (That\'s starting to take on the cadence of the \"Serenity Prayer\"!)  The main issue of suitability is that it should be outside the range of dynamic addresses given out by CPS\'s DHCP servers, yet be in the range of the school\'s IP addresses.  The static addresses excluded from DHCP include an upper range of the fourth byte, 231 or above.  Also the printer should be set to use manual addressing, not DHCP or BOOTP.  \n\n  Thanks,\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(142,320,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-11-26 14:13:14','2007-11-26 20:13:14','There was also a weather station on the roof!',0,'1','','',0,2),(143,321,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-11-26 12:10:35','2007-11-26 18:10:35','gosh, I don\'t even have a basis for guessing if that\'s Hindi or Sanskrit.  (Or transliterated English or ... )  But if it is your role to be a warrior, you must follow it.',0,'1','','',0,2),(144,322,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-11-26 12:32:11','2007-11-26 18:32:11','Hi, Ben, thanks for your report!\n\nHere are some miscellaneous responses from me on particular points:\n\n  -- ChildServe: Russ tells me you looked at this together and found the AllUsers Desktop as the place to drop that shortcut without too much muss and fuss.  Cool!\n\n -- Deep Freeze: Did the console connectivity ever get going well enough to detect these additional stations?  If so, you could make a folder for the lab computers, for future operations to apply selectively.  \n\n -- Student user permissions may be set too tightly.  Most other schools don\'t cut out the \"run\" field for them, for instance.  We\'ll want to discuss with Ms. Ahad first, but with her okay i think we would want to go into the GPO and clear some of these settings.  \n\n -- Think about whether the paper-based problem-report sheets could or should be supplemented with an email address (like \"canter-tech@cuip.net\") that would receive help requests by email and reflect back to the  CUIP team for Canter (Russ, you, me) and some authority at the school, presumably Ms Ahad.\n\nThanks,\n\n ==mitch\n\n(emailed and also posted as blog-comment)',0,'1','','',0,2),(145,323,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2007-11-26 12:15:13','2007-11-26 18:15:13','Nice work, Jackson!  \n\nIf you don\'t get a chance to discuss Deep Freeze etcetera with the school admins, Shaz or Jonathan or I will followup with them.',0,'1','','',0,2),(146,326,'Mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2007-11-26 12:00:08','2007-11-26 18:00:08','Thanks for the thoughtful involvement, Zhang.\n\nWe did participate (with four of our schools) in a sort of pilot test of a thin-client solution, using Citrix.  It didn\'t catch on, though I think it could have worked out more convincingly if more resources were put in and if the Central Office had been more interested in the idea in the first place.  ...\n\n  ==Mitch\n\n(Emailed and posted as blog comment.)',0,'1','','',0,0),(147,327,'sara','sara@cuip.net','','128.135.76.94','2007-11-26 11:58:35','2007-11-26 17:58:35','Dana,\n\nI\'ll check in with Mr. Smith on Tuesday and let him know what\'s going on with his computer.  You can just take the RAM and toolkit to the school on Wednesday.  Thanks!\n\nSara',0,'1','','',0,0),(148,330,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.15.71','2007-11-30 06:48:18','2007-11-30 12:48:18','Hey, Dana, thanks for everything!  I think we helped Fermi make big strides this quarter.  On this week\'s particular items, I\'m glad to hear the RAM-upgrade stations turned out so well.  We\'ll look in on the other locations you mention as needing checking or followup.  \n\nBest of luck wth those exams and papers.\n\n ==mitch\n\n(Blog comment and email)',0,'1','','',0,2),(149,334,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.15.71','2007-12-05 10:00:26','2007-12-05 16:00:26','Can that be the same John Searle I\'m thinking of?  Philosophy professor at Berkeley, exponent of J.L Austin, victim of Derrida\'s diabolical sarcasm, oddly uncomfortable presence as interviewee in documentary \"Berkeley in the Sixties\" , brilliant constructor of examples and conundrums like his Derivation of an Ought from an Is and the Chinese Box problem for artificial intelligence doing natural language processing ...',0,'1','','',0,2),(150,335,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.15.71','2007-12-05 10:05:11','2007-12-05 16:05:11','(posted and mailed)\n\nHi, Li An,\n\nThanks for this report and for all your work at Woodson.\n\nDo you recall a teacher / tech cordinator from Lincoln Park named Katrina Miller?  I bumped into her at a CPS tech meeting recently.\n\nBest wishes for a successful quarter and a good relaxing break,\n\n  =Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(151,339,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.15.71','2007-12-05 09:32:45','2007-12-05 15:32:45','Hi Nathaniel,\n\nThanks for your report, and your work at Price. \n\nDo check with Ms. Herron and with Kevin, but my guess is it will be fine to change the laptop user settings for the printer.  If this is a single generic user login that the students all use, then that username can be made a Power User for the laptop locally.  If there are lots of individual logins involved, then probably the simplest thing is to go to the properties of the printer entry, and give Everyone permission to Manage Print Queue.  \n\nWishing you good success on exams, papers, and the academic quarter\'s end in general.  Have a good break, and please let us know when you\'re back.  \n\n  ==Mitch\n\n\n(emailed and posted)',0,'1','','',0,2),(152,341,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.15.71','2007-12-05 09:03:44','2007-12-05 15:03:44','Hey Ben, I can\'t keep up with you!  I\'ve barely completed <i>reading</i> last week\'s set of reports, let alone replying or moving on to this week.  So please just keep in mind, if you actually need or want a timely response, you\'ll need to email to Russ and me.  (It\'s fine if it\'s a pasted copy of a report posted here.)  \n\nI\'d certainly like to see your blogging instructions.  Would you please email a copy to Russ and me?  Thanks!  I\'ll admit to being a bit skeptical about when written directions will work for introducing teachers to something technological, but maybe I\'m just too doubting.  i hope it does work well.  Of course, it\'s another matter (and usually a very good idea) if you do a personal training/introduction session and by supplying the written notes you free them from needing to do their own note-taking and thereby help them concentrate on the operation at hand.\n\nThe CUIP techwiki still/again has an Apache password, and may forever; I briefly lifted it to get verified with Google (and file our request to remove the cached copies of the troublesome pages).    But that isn\'t meant to block it from our NSPs; use the same username and password that you do for this reporting blog.  To edit, you will need to register with a username and password of your choosing within the wiki (after the apache level password).  I think it\'s now set to need admin approval of new users (maybe not), so in case we don\'t get an auto notification from the system you might drop me an email at that point so i\'ll know to log in and okay your registration. <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; We\'re aiming the content primarily for the CUIP staff and NSP-techs, and school tech coordinators, but it\'s not out of the question to have materials for other tech-participating teachers as well.  Especially from the \"we took notes so you wouldn\'t have to\" perspective.  After I see your blogging directions I\'ll be in a better position to suggest whether to interleave it with our existing collection of blogging articles, or make it a new article, and if the latter then we can figure out the main title t give it and the redirects to put in place. \n\nAs long as Ms. Ahad is happy with the results, shuffling printers and even their fusers and other parts is a fine solution.  Russ may add some specific notes on this, or on the DF console issue etc.\n\nAbsolutely I echo the sentiment of good luck to you and everyone else on finals and papers!  Have a Happy Snowy Chanukah today, and please soak in some relaxation during the University\'s interim!\n\nCheers,\n\n  ==Mitch\n\n\n\n(Posted and emailed too.)',0,'1','','',0,2),(153,345,'sara','sara@cuip.net','','128.135.76.94','2007-12-12 14:48:51','2007-12-12 20:48:51','I\'ve definitely forgotten about thawing a computer before installing something before...we all do it!  No worries!\n\nI talked to Ms. Alexander yesterday and encouraged her to call TechXL about the DIBELS problem.  It will hopefully be resolved by the time you get back in January.   \n\nI\'ll check in on the computers in Ms. Prasad-Heintz\'s rooms, too.\n\nThanks for all the hard work at Fermi.   Have a great break!',0,'1','','',0,0),(154,346,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.6.101','2008-01-11 10:10:05','2008-01-11 16:10:05','Thanks for helping out with the AR reconnections in the lab; and I\'m glad you\'ll know about that now, in case it needs fixing-up in any of the classrooms where you\'re working.   Also thanks for showing me how the Study Island setup is working out at Shoesmith.  \n\nIt\'s good to hear that the projects are progressing okay.  (I was going to call them the different irons you have in the fire, but then couldn\'t say that they\'ll be bearing fruit!) \n\nA lot of the \"Reader Rabbit\" type of CDROM-based teaching game software fell by the wayside due to incompatibility with modern video cards and monitors.  There is a split between teachers who look back on them fondly and want to use the still-extant working ones, and those who thought \"good riddance\" since they regarded them as of little educational value.  Maybe we can have a conversation with the Principal/AP/Mr. Willis on how much attention to expend on installing and \"tuning\" these.\n\n  Thanks!\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(155,346,'Han','hanz@uchicago.edu','','128.135.199.75','2008-01-11 17:14:31','2008-01-11 23:14:31','No problem, Mitch - glad to be of help.\n\nReflecting back on it, there doesn\'t need to be much attention spent on the teaching games. I think I\'m just going to dig up a math game and that should be enough (since the clifford game is reading). Plus I think Mrs. Cranley has lots of other ideas she\'d rather time be spent on than the games.',0,'1','','',0,0),(156,347,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2008-01-14 12:51:05','2008-01-14 18:51:05','Thanks, Bryan, it\'s really very reassuring to know that you\'re taking care of business at Harte.  \n\nWiggleworks: this probably lived on the old server.  If we can get that fired up and operating on the network, maybe we can identify the Wiggleworks files and move them onto harte-srv01 then fixup the network shortcut on the client computer.  Or maybe do a fresh install if they\'ve got the media still.',0,'1','','',0,2),(157,349,'mitch','mitchell@cuip.net','','75.3.1.130','2008-01-14 08:28:50','2008-01-14 14:28:50','Hi, Ben,\n\nThanks for your report, and your accomplishments at the school!\n\nRAM upgrades: Good to hear this went okay and seems to have helped.\n\nOS upgrade: Yes, there is a special disk, but it\'s not a Ghost image.  It\'s just a CPS-issued Windows 2000 Pro installer with the key built in.  It doesn\'t provide Office or in fact any non-OS software.  Nonetheless, it\'s the one to use.  Make it a clean install, and accept the option to format the partition. We may have given you a copy earlier, or there may be one in the lab storage cabinet or desk.  It\'s not a printed CD with Microsoft logo etc, just a locally-copied disk in a paper envelope.  If there isn\'t one available at Canter we\'ll get one to you.\n\nTeacher projects: Russ will get together with you about this.  I don\'t know whether there\'s still one that might be planned as a wiki rather than blog; but Russ will be on top of this. \n\nCUIP site: No, I can think of a couple different pages that might be \"the CUIP website\" but neither of them is a WP setup.  How about letting us know the specific URL you mean, and the problems you see in IE6.\n\nTechco password on recently-rememdiated computer:  Often this will not immediately be the school-specific techo password but a temporary one that is set by the standard-users script.  I\'ll include it in the email instance of this comment, but not in the reporting blog.  (Any NSP-tech reading this on the blog who works with the techo password for your school but isn\'t familiar with the temp password, please ask your TRA or me.) \n\n\nThanks again,\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(158,350,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2008-01-14 12:45:51','2008-01-14 18:45:51','Man, now I want to use that image on our \"Submit!\" buttons...\n\nIt\'s cool that Deep Freeze is now a go at Mollison!  Nice!  I\'m getting the details from Joe about needing the adm01 IP address  ... thanks for the tip on this, it will be useful at a couple places we\'ll be doing DF soon.\n\n\n==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(159,352,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2008-01-14 12:38:26','2008-01-14 18:38:26','Thanks for getting all those DIBELS stations cleared up!\n\nIt sounds like the problem with that Dell might indeed be the network card, or the driver for it.  (If these Dells were set up from a generic Microsoft OS installer, the NIC driver might not have been on the install, and a separate driver would be needed -- also these sometimes need a \"chip set\" driver installed to take care of a couple things at once.)  On the other hand, these used to be previously working okay in the resource room, as far as I recall.  Anyway, I\'ll try to stop and take a look; and maybe leave a spare NIC for you in case that\'s actually it.  (Sometimes just tossing in a new card can be easier than fussing to get the integrated adapter working.)\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(160,358,'Mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2008-01-23 12:59:13','2008-01-23 18:59:13','(posting and email)                                                                                   \n                                                                                                      \nHi, Ben,                                                                                              \n                                                                                                      \nI\'ll spare you the details of my DSL tale of woe, but the short version is                            \nI was offline from Friday afternoon and all weekend, so yesterday and                                 \ntoday I\'ve been playing catch-up on email and school reporting etc.                                   \n                                                                                                      \nThanks for your Week 2 report from Canter.  I\'m still amused at the idea                              \nof the bathroom computers.  Here are some scattershot responses to                                    \nparticular points you raise.  \n\n\n   Unless there is some \"precious\" irreplaceable program on a 98, we                                \nhardly ever use the \"upgrade\" option but instead install W2K from the CPS                             \nCD as a clean install, including formatting the destination partition as                              \nan NTFS partition and losing all the content that was on there.  (We may                              \nspeak of this casually as an upgrade, of course, since what was once 98                               \nhas been upped to 2000, but it\'s a replacement, not an upgrade-in-place.)                             \n  The reason is just that a clean install is more likely to work smoothly.                            \nAnd for that matter, doing a strict upgrade is generally not worth the                                \ntrouble since the programs you are trying to preserve often don\'t run well                            \nunder W2K after all.    \n\n  As a related matter, the approach to existing documents depends                                  \ncompletely on where the computer was, and who was using it for what.  The                             \nmachines in the restroom were in effect abandoned, and I wouldn\'t hesitate                            \none minute to format the disk and do a totally fresh install.  A computer                             \non a teacher\'s desk is at the opposite end of the spectrum ... you would                              \nalways have a discussion with the user.  In the middle are shared machines                            \nas in the teacher resource room, and student classroom or lab computers.                              \nRuss, can you add some guidance for the particular cases at Canter?               \n\n  When backup is needed, and the network interface is working, consider                             \nuploading to Canter-srv02; either a teacher\'s private folder for the                                  \nteacher desktop computers, or the semi-public shares for a semi-public                                \ncomputer.  \n\n  Recombining RAM remains a good strategy!\n\n Where you want to backup off a drive that is no longer bootable, as an                            \nalternative to opening up another computer and attaching the drive onto                               \nthe ribbon cable, we have a couple enclosure devices that then hook to a                              \nhost computer via USB. \n\n  <i>When using the remediation utilities from the canter-adm01 server, I                              \nwould suggest avoiding the one big program from the top section of the                                \nWindows Maintenance Utilities page, and instead selectively use the                                   \nindividual-task numbered wizards from the bottom section.</i>\n\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(161,368,'sara','sara@cuip.net','','128.135.76.94','2008-01-28 09:22:46','2008-01-28 15:22:46','I\'m glad that you were able to find plenty to do in Mr. Spearman\'s absence.  Thanks for the report!',0,'1','','',0,0),(162,375,'sara','sara@cuip.net','','128.135.76.94','2008-01-28 09:16:44','2008-01-28 15:16:44','Thanks for the info, Kevin.  Nathaniel and I have been disabling the wireless and plugging them into the ports and haven\'t been having any battery problems.',0,'1','','',0,0),(163,377,'Ben Hyman','bhyman@uchicago.edu','http://','128.135.171.73','2008-02-01 17:42:20','2008-02-01 23:42:20','KompoZer looks like a branch of the discontinued Nvu, which I\'ve used before and has been pretty good. You may also want to try Amaya, although KompoZer looks more user-friendly. I imagine that one of the computers at Emmet Till has Microsoft Office, so you could even try Microsoft FrontPage.\n\nLet me know what you choose, or if you need more help!\nThanks,\nBen (Stationed at Canter Middle School)',0,'1','','',0,34),(164,385,'Mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2008-02-05 10:48:43','2008-02-05 16:48:43','(Catching up with the Reporting Blog...)                                                              \n                                                                                                      \nHi, Emily and Dana,                                                                                   \n                                                                                                      \nQuiet week at Fermi?  Well, bravo!  Fermi deserves that, as do we.                                    \n                                                                                                      \nI had forgotten that there might be client computers still joined to the                              \nFERMIDOM domain, to show up on the compliance report.  If you can track                               \nthem down physically, by all means join them to INSTR; there should be no                             \ndown-side to that anywhere in the school.  (If the students are using a                               \nFERMIDOM generic login it might be necessary to discuss with the teacher                              \nand switch to using this-computerschool.)  The FERMIDOM domain is at best                            \nsemi-functioning; Sanjaya and I tried to shut it down cleanly last Spring                             \nbut couldn\'t for various reasons [the \"global catalog server\" is down],                               \nbut we might try again now with more radical measures...\n\n\nRight, CPS does not like having Win98 machines on the network, so we try to                                  \nupgrade them to W2K if the hardware will support it.  If possible, do a                               \nclean install rather than the kind of upgrade that tries to preserve                                  \ndocuments and programs; this may involve a discussion with the teacher.\nSince the Acers often have driver issues after a generic MS OS install,                               \nanother option for them would be the Ghost images.                                                    \n                                                                                                      \nAre the computers from the cabinets in the \"empty side\" of the computer                               \nlab generally better than what\'s installed in the classrooms?  I can\'t                                \nrecall if we finished sorting through them.  How many usable units could                              \nwe likely get from those?  Anyway, I\'m pleased to hear that Ms.                                       \nLove-is-all-you-need has a better computer setup now than previously.                                 \n                                                                                                      \nYou might be surprised how controversial the issue of snow days is on the                             \nteachers\' discussion boards!  There are folks with a lot to say about it                              \non both sides.  As I write (election day morning) we have a Winter Storm                              \nWarning forecast for this evening; yikes, is it going to be more of the                               \nsame for weeks on end?!                                                                               \n                                                                                                      \nThanks for the fine work you both have been consistently doing at Fermi!                              \n                                                                                                      \n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(165,386,'Mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2008-02-05 10:49:09','2008-02-05 16:49:09','(Catching up with the Reporting Blog...)                                                              \n                                                                                                      \nHi, Emily and Dana,                                                                                   \n                                                                                                      \nQuiet week at Fermi?  Well, bravo!  Fermi deserves that, as do we.                                    \n                                                                                                      \nI had forgotten that there might be client computers still joined to the                              \nFERMIDOM domain, to show up on the compliance report.  If you can track                               \nthem down physically, by all means join them to INSTR; there should be no                             \ndown-side to that anywhere in the school.  (If the students are using a                               \nFERMIDOM generic login it might be necessary to discuss with the teacher                              \nand switch to using this-computerschool.)  The FERMIDOM domain is at best                            \nsemi-functioning; Sanjaya and I tried to shut it down cleanly last Spring                             \nbut couldn\'t for various reasons [the \"global catalog server\" is down],                               \nbut we might try again now with more radical measures...\n\n\nRight, CPS does not like having Win98 machines on the network, so we try to                                  \nupgrade them to W2K if the hardware will support it.  If possible, do a                               \nclean install rather than the kind of upgrade that tries to preserve                                  \ndocuments and programs; this may involve a discussion with the teacher.\nSince the Acers often have driver issues after a generic MS OS install,                               \nanother option for them would be the Ghost images.                                                    \n                                                                                                      \nAre the computers from the cabinets in the \"empty side\" of the computer                               \nlab generally better than what\'s installed in the classrooms?  I can\'t                                \nrecall if we finished sorting through them.  How many usable units could                              \nwe likely get from those?  Anyway, I\'m pleased to hear that Ms.                                       \nLove-is-all-you-need has a better computer setup now than previously.                                 \n                                                                                                      \nYou might be surprised how controversial the issue of snow days is on the                             \nteachers\' discussion boards!  There are folks with a lot to say about it                              \non both sides.  As I write (election day morning) we have a Winter Storm                              \nWarning forecast for this evening; yikes, is it going to be more of the                               \nsame for weeks on end?!                                                                               \n                                                                                                      \nThanks for the fine work you both have been consistently doing at Fermi!                              \n                                                                                                      \n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(166,387,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.0.41','2008-02-05 07:13:50','2008-02-05 13:13:50','(Mail and posting) \n\nCould it be an issue with the jumper settings on the replacement drives?  Probably \"cable detect\" is the best setting to try, if it has that, but you might experiment with all three choices (cable detect, master, slave).  Also try switching the mb end of the ribbon cable to the other IDE (ATA) connector on the mb, or putting the HDD on the secondary cable behind the CDROM.  (neither of those will make the computer fully functional, but I\'m suggesting them as a way of figuring out what\'s going on.)\n\nIf/when those Acers start seeing the harddrives, we have some Ghost images for the 5200 from another school, or driver CDs if you load a non-Acer-specific Windows installer and they then have trouble with video depth or network adapter -- like Compaq, Acer had the habit of using components that Windows 2000 didn\'t list.  \n\n Thanks for your reports and all your work,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(167,389,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','209.175.47.162','2008-02-08 12:56:25','2008-02-08 18:56:25','Yeh, it\'s a tough situation.  We can\'t be the teacher, but we can work with the teacher.  In effect, try to tell them what to do, though please don\'t hold me to putting it so bluntly.  Maybe we can get some of our senior people there at the right times to talk to them; Russ for instance carries some authority with teachers as a CPS veteran himself.  Meanwhile, I don\'t think you can wield authority with the students, but perhaps you can put it on a personal level ... they\'re making such a racket you can\'t concentrate to do your job, that sort of thing... What do you think?',0,'1','','',0,0),(168,389,'Ben Hyman','bhyman@uchicago.edu','http://','128.135.188.136','2008-02-09 17:29:29','2008-02-09 23:29:29','Hah. Human interaction should be unnecessary. Find a technical solution!\n\nIn all seriousness, though, I\'ll look into ways of disabling speakers or muting them through some kind of scripting capability. It\'s almost certainly not worth the time I\'ll invest in it, but it should be a fun project!\n\n-Ben Hyman\n(Stationed at Canter)',0,'1','','',0,34),(169,394,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.0.41','2008-02-10 09:17:21','2008-02-10 15:17:21','As always, thanks for your reports, Ben, and for your good work at the school.\n\n\nLastly, I tried Remote-Desktoping into Canter?s user server. Though one can access the server, the only window I see, which cannot be closed, is for filling out an improper shutdown report, or something like that. Since I?m not sure what caused the shutdown (or whether the data even gets sent to CPS or Microsoft), I didn?t bother filling out the report. Russ, do you know anything about this? \n\n\nThis is a \"feature\" of Windows Server 2003.  It gets recorded in one of the onboard logs (though I always have a hard time re-locating it) and is not sent anywhere.  It also puts up this question window if you intentionally do a shutdown or restart, in advance of that operation; but if nothing was logged before the shutdown, it asks the first admin login after the restart.  I usually just select Unplanned from the dropdown, and write \"Power outage\" in the text input area.  (Or \"asdfasdfasdfg ;kjh;kjh;jh;;\'.)  Once you\'ve typed anything into the text area the button goes live to close the window.\n\nFor reasons we haven\'t figured out (but actually have been concerned about at one time or another) Canter\'s school fileserver does seem more prone to spontaneous restarts than most schools\' .\n\nI encountered an interesting problem, though: a teacher told me that Yahoo Mail wouldn’t work, and she was right…Internet Explorer refused to load the page, as well as several others. It turns out it was a secure-server type issue — something was wrong with IE and it wouldn’t connect to sites using SSL. Ultimately, a computer restart fixed this issue (it was also having some random INSTR permission issues).\n\nMaybe it\'s pure coincidence but Kenwood HS next door was having problems with Yahoo last week also.  I won\'t write out the whole explanation here, but there *used* to be a CPS-wide issue at Yahoo and maybe some other services, due to the way the NAT-firewall works.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, I got a request from Ms. Spector (the teacher in 205) to help her set up a blog for her latest Spanish project, compiling a cookbook. I sent Russ an email and am waiting to hear back from him about this. Mitch stopped by, and we caught up for a little bit; he said I should inform Russ about the possibilities of hooking up some of the printers lying around, and that Russ could work with Ms. Ahad on that.\n\nRuss might be able to come to Canter to work with you jointly sometime this week.  Schools are closed Tuesday ... are you thinking of putting in a couple hours on another day instead?  \n\nAlso, Mitch, did you intentionally expand people’s user permissions on this WP site? I’m now able to edit other people’s posts and comments.\n\nAfter you showed me the disappointing appearance on IE6 on a small screen, I moved up your permissions so that you can GENTLY edit the theme if you are still so inclined.  (That might be something to do if you aren\'t going in to replace your Tuesday hours.)  Please always check the effect of any changes you try, in IE7 and FF2 on small and big screen settings.  If Editor doesn\'t let you edit the theme, let me know and we can adjust further.  \n\nI need to find some more spare mouses to use — certainly at least one. Does CUIP have any extra mouse balls? I have three working mice which are simply missing balls, and I know those are much cheaper than an entire mouse.\n\nWe have a few spare mice but not balls or other parts.  These are intended for schools of course, but in ones or twos for special cases; when a school needs maybe a half-dozen we encourage them to order on their own.  But if one or two would make a difference, you can come get them the way you did that ethernet cable.  \n \nThanks for your comment on the Mollison issue.  As usual, the situation has moved on beyond the initial interaction on the blog; and happily will focus on our good relationships at the school.  BTW, what are your observations about lab usage at Canter?  \n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(170,394,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.0.41','2008-02-10 09:58:35','2008-02-10 15:58:35','One more point ... You write:\n\nI want to find out who’s in charge of the library, and see what system they’re using to handle book circulation. Maybe we can come up with something inventive!\n\nI\'m not sure if Canter has even a half-time librarian.  Maybe Russ can clarify whether there\'s a teacher whose responsibilities informally include the Library, or if Dr. Conlon or Ms. Ahad take it on personally.  \n\nIn any case, historically CPS has endorsed (and in some cases bought for the schools) only some 2 or 3 brands of library automation system -- the ones I know by name are Follett and Athena (a company which now has been absorbed into Follett).  At the CUIP schools where they already have one of these systems, we have been happy to help them install, re-install, maintain, or move the software; and make sure the Librarian (or the person taking on de-facto librarian duties) is in touch with the CPS Dept. of Libraries -- especially through the good offices of Christie Thomas, who is affiliated with CUIP and the University\'s Library, and now also works with the CPS Dept. of Libraries.\n\nHowever, AFAIK Canter has not in the past had one of these supported library automation systems.  At any rate, I haven\'t noticed any pieces of it on the school server, though it may be worth taking a quick look specifically with that in mind.  Or possibly they have had something of the sort but ran it on a computer local to their Library, or had it on a now-defunct server and now just have the uninstalled software and manuals.  If it shows up in any of those forms, we could talk with them about making a fresh start.  \n\nWhat they can\'t do, and we really wouldn\'t want to see them do, includes making a new purchase of these or some other commercial package, nor start using some open-source system, nor develop a roll-your-own software system.  The leading option for a library-automation solution would be for them to get in on the CPS-wide online library management system which is currently under development.  This is something they can learn about from Christie, or their Area library representative.  \n\nYou\'re right that it\'s a shame if they aren\'t circulating books just because of the lack of a circulation system.  We can\'t help them out with an immediate software solution (unless they have Follett or Athena available but unused), but maybe CUIP or the CPs Dept of Libraries can help them with some manual record-keeping system.... y\'know, card-pockets and rubber stamps ...\n\nBest regards,\n\n ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(171,395,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.0.41','2008-02-10 10:15:40','2008-02-10 16:15:40','Hi, Jimmy,\n\nThanks for your report, and for representing us well at the home of the Three Musketeers (and I don\'t mean the candy bar!) and Monte Cristo (and I don\'t mean the sandwich!).\n\nTwo quick points:\n\n* It\'s always good to clean up the desktops, and the drives, and the startups, and all the rest of that!  It\'s good prep for Deep Freeze -- we want to freeze cleaned-up computers, not just a messat status quo.  \n  Ad-Aware (or Spybot Search And Destroy) have been useful tools for this in the past.  But now you may need to check those computers on the compliance page, because sometimes the scanner classifies these as spyware!  (This may be connected with Trend, the supported antvirus program at CPS, adding an anti-spyware component, so they want to rule out others from the same niche.)\n\n* I\'m missing some of the outcome in your comments on the printing.  Did you and Mr. Tolbert do more of the TCP/IP installation of the big IBM Info-Print on the Lab computers?  Probably the simplest way to do that is using the autorun installer program on the IBM CD that came with the printer, rather than Windows Add-Printer Wizard (because the CD doesn\'t make it easy to get to the drivers by themselves when trying the Have Disk button from the Add Printer).  \n\nThanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(172,397,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.0.41','2008-02-11 07:30:29','2008-02-11 13:30:29','Thanks for taking good care of Dr. Sanders!\n\nThe screen rotation is a \"feature\" of the graphics card.  Besides the direct key-combo shortcuts, you can adjust the rotation using the Display control panel  ... though you may get a pain in the neck trying to read it.  Actually, I shouldn\'t be cynical about it: it can be useful if your physical screen is mounted to rotate and you\'ve got a reason to use a portrait view.  But it\'s certainly unnerving the first time you run into it in a classroom.  (I wonder if it happens by accident or pranking.)',0,'1','','',0,2),(173,399,'russ','russ@cuip.net','','76.197.162.154','2008-02-17 11:20:05','2008-02-17 17:20:05','thanks for the report.  i sent you a more detailed e-mail.',0,'1','','',0,0),(174,402,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.4.25','2008-02-19 12:47:38','2008-02-19 18:47:38','Emily and Dana, \n\nThanks for your reports.\n\nThe Compliance Caper is a super idea!   And I\'m glad to say you have what I think is exactly the right handle on it -- that it\'s a good filler for a slow day, but takes second place to more-immediate teacher needs.  \n\nHere are a few tips that might be helpful along the way:\n<ol>\n<li> 1)  The default view has a time-window of something like 30 days.  So it will list visitor laptops, other machines that were on the network during that time but not now, listings under both old and new names for machines you\'ve renamed, and other detritus.  You can choose a shorter window to try and eliminate some of these, by clicking on 7-days or 1-day.  \n\n<li> 2) The above might be part of the story with the computer Dana saw in the report but couldn\'t find in the reported location.  But also, the \"room / seat / brand\" info comes from the Description field and was put there by the installer, or maybe us!  They or we may have gotten something wrong, or gotten it right but not updated it when physically relocating the machine.  (The logged-in username, OTOH, should be valid; if it\'s non-generic and interpretable as a teacher name, that may suggest a room to look in.)\n\n<li> 3) The SMS column seems to be used for a variety of things that don\'t sound directly like SMS, and some other columns have somewhat odd messages too..  If you click at the top of  most of  the columns (not the sorting button but near it) you can get a popup window with a little explanation of the problem indicator.   \n\n<li> 4) In particular, there are a series of numbered messages in the SMS column (like 1789) that turn out to be Domain Trust issues.  At Fermi, where there is a semi-functional private domain, those messages are probably correct!  But what you can do about it is mostly make sure the client computer is on INSTR and not FERMIDOM.  \n    <ul list-style=\"square\">\n  	<li>a] If on FERMIDOM, run the join-domain wizard from fermi-adm01 maintenance tools page to join INSTR.  \n	<li>b] If apparently on INSTR, you can make sure by forcing it to leave and rejoin.  This means going to System Properties panel, Network Identification or Computer Name tab (it changes between W2K and XP), Change button.  Check Workgroup instead of Domain, fill in any name for the workgroup.  OKAY and reboot.  Go back in and join INSTR.  If you need to give it a \"username authorized to join computers to this domain\" the user is (SENT IN EMAIL, NOT POSTED) with password (SENT IN EMAIL, NOT POSTED) .  (Or you can use the join-domain wizard at this stage.)  If it complains about \"this computer name already belongs to the INSTR domain, cannot join\", then futz around with the name a little, like change the final letter U to V.  \n	<li>c] It may be that the computer was correctly moved from FERMIDOM to INSTR some time ago but retains a manual DNS setting of the local server.  Check the Network Connection\'s settings, make sure both the IP Address and the DNS Server are Automatic.\n    </ul>\n<li> 5) In theory, OTS picks and chooses the patches and other updates to apply, and pushes them over the network from CPS.  So (still in theory) there is no need to actually run Windows Update direct from Microsoft.  In practice, sometimes there is need for that ... e.g., a laptop that is not going to stay connected overnight to get the updates (a case that recently came up for you at Fermi), or a just-now restored computer that is way behind.  An in-between case is a desktop computer with a good network connection, which was not getting the CPS critical patches because of some domain or SMS issue.  If that latter type issue has been resolved, probably you could leave the computer connected and running, and let the maintenance scan take care of that.  But equally it would be nice to see that red blotch cleared up!  So you could go for Windows Update in that case too.\n<ul list-style=\"square\">\n  <li>5a) When you do use Windows Update direct to Microsoft, don\'t get IE 7.  It has some incompatibilities for IMPACT.\n  <li> 5b) When you do use Windows Update direct to Microsoft, don\'t worry too much if some particular items refuse to install.  This may be a known problem, and this patch then wouldn\'t count against it on the compliance page.  \n</ul>\n</ol>\n  Thanks again,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(175,403,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.4.25','2008-02-19 12:53:21','2008-02-19 18:53:21','Thanks, Dana.  Please see a more extensive comment from me filed under Emily\'s post but meant for both of you.  (Also I guess I\'ll pop it into email.)   ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(176,404,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.4.25','2008-02-19 11:45:40','2008-02-19 17:45:40','Thanks for the info about no reported AR issues!  That helps put my anxiety to rest.\n\nThose files filling up the C: drive from patches and updates are generally there just in-principle for possible rollbacks (as I understand it, they contain mostly the <i>replaced</i> files for a given update). Then these have little practical value on our school computers, and  I don\'t hesitate real long about deleting them, at least older ones.',0,'1','','',0,2),(177,411,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.4.25','2008-02-25 07:34:35','2008-02-25 13:34:35','Thanks for your report, Rafael.  I\'m glad the reporting blog cooperated with registering a login for you.\n\nI think the plan for the Macs was more than simply reloading the current system.  We\'ll need to check with Ariel about this.  There was an OS upgrade involved plus selected applications to be installed,  maybe from a custom CD or maybe from our portable USB HDD.  \n\nI\'m sorry we haven\'t really been able to do the full session work-along with CUIP staff.  That needs to be corrected.... more to follow in email.\n\nThanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(178,412,'sara','sara@cuip.net','','75.33.248.60','2008-02-25 16:49:55','2008-02-25 22:49:55','I will try very hard to remember to bring that RAM back to Fermi this week!  \n\nSara',0,'1','','',0,0),(179,416,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.4.25','2008-02-27 08:18:06','2008-02-27 14:18:06','Thanks for getting posted here!\n\nI\'m planing on going to Till today (Wednesday) but in the forenoon.  I\'m mostly going to the Little Building, but will try to talk with Z and Thurman about tech problem reporting, and get that form into their hands.  If i do get a chance to look in at room 111 I\'ll leave word for you one way or another.\n\n  ==mitch\n\n(Posting as comment and mailing.)',0,'1','','',0,2),(180,417,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.4.25','2008-02-27 08:04:25','2008-02-27 14:04:25','Hi, Ian,                                                                                                          \n                                                                                                                  \nThanks for posting to the Reporting Blog.  I\'ve added a username \"ian\"   which you can use next time around; I\'m glad  the absence of this didn\'t stand in your way.                                                                     \n                                                                                                                  \nThere is indeed a CD for the Linksys PCI wireless cards.  If you don\'t  find one sitting around the school (try the cabinets in the lab), Sara or                                         \nI can get one to you.  We suspected that some of these were just burned out or malfunctioning, but may not have actually tossed them out -- if there is one or more you can\'t get working, it may just be bad.                                                   \n                                                                                                                  \n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(181,421,'Mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2008-03-03 13:20:47','2008-03-03 19:20:47','(posted and mailed)\n\nHi, Kevin!\n\nI\'m glad to hear the INSTR folders are eventually proving useful.  If iit\'s the teacher\'s personal folder that is visible to the students, that probably means the security settings have gone wrong -- but maybe we should turn a blind eye if it\'s working okay.  There are also the \"students\" and \"staff\" share areas NOT under the Users share, which are meant to be more public.  Also they could all use a common single INSTR login  ... come to think of it, that\'s probably what\'s going on, eh?  Well that\'s good!\n\nHave you tried the \"Norwegian Disk\" on those computers that are in effect locked up?\n\nNathaniel was also working on the boiler-room computer, so I\'m copying him on this email too.  Neither Sara nor I is really sure where that room is.  Would the signal from a Wireless Access Point mounted semi-permanently in a classroom (or other wired-network room) reach to the boiler room?  If so, the computer could be outfitted with a USB wireless adapter.  If you think this may be feasible, we should have a conversation with Ms. Herron about it.  (I don\'t think dial-up is really in the picture anymore.)\n\nThanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(182,422,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.22.204','2008-03-03 08:46:29','2008-03-03 14:46:29','Hi, Ben,\n\nThe E3-E5 stations you\'ve mentioned are sounding like maybe an interesting puzzle (if not simply the low-resources problem that we\'ve seen).  It may be hard to devise a clear test for whether it\'s the local/INSTR distinction or the new/old login distinction that matters more.  Are you sure they\'re actually online at the basic connectivity level?  If you\'ll be there Tuesday, Russ and/or I may be able to take a look at them together with you.  \n\nYes, some schools\' versions of the GPO-based login scripts were mapping a network drive to letter T, which Deep Freeze (which came into the picture later) wants to use for the Thaw Space.  It\'s great that you caught and fixed this!\n\nAhem, you keep pasting your question about permissions for this blog; but have you tried since the previous go-round, say two or three weeks ago?  Please give it a try then let me know by direct email.  \n\n\nThanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(183,425,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.3.22.204','2008-03-03 08:30:53','2008-03-03 14:30:53','(Posted and emailed)\n\nHiya, Jackson!\n\nThe school site is indeed shaping up nicely.\n\nIt\'s always great if we can be on good terms with a school\'s LSC / PTA / principal-for-a-day / etc.  Offering them a presence in the school site is a very good step.  \n\nOn a slightly cautionary note, if there is ever a hint of some issue developing out of this, please refer them right away to Shaz.   And from my tech / security point of view, of course please don\'t share your jnwright login with anyone, and preferably arrange to make those LSC/etc pages by having them send the content to you (or a Mollison teacher or admin who is on this project, say Ms Dean) and letting you do the actual upload.  \n\nThanks for your report, and thanks for this fine progress!\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(184,443,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.255.129','2008-03-20 09:14:34','2008-03-20 15:14:34','(mailing and posting)\n\nHi, Bryan,\n\nThanks so much for working with Ms. Parks on her document saving/backup\narrangements!  It\'s always a plus when we can help a Principal directly;\neven if occasioned by something unfortunate like her disk failure.\n\nYes, I too have come to prefer the motherboard jumper method for clearing\npower-on passwords: it\'s faster and more reliable than the old idea of\ntaking out the coin-battery and waiting (an indeterminate time!).  The\nonly hitch is *finding* the right jumper on some models where it is not so\nclearly marked -- but Dell provides diagrams on their support site, and if\nyou were on the phone with them that\'s probably even better\n\nThere is a question that naturally raises -- who put on that password and\nwhy?  If it\'s the students fooling around, and we see more of it, we can\nconsider setting an administrative password at the bootup -- that locks\naway the screen where a power-on password gets set (or changed) but\ndoesn\'t itself put a password requirement on rebooting.  If on the other\nhand it was a teacher or the lab sub, we\'ll need to talk it over with all\nparties...\n\nThe school web site is hosted on CUIP, so there is no *technical*\nimpediment to reassigning ownership or passwords.  But we definitely would\nneed to talk with Ms Parks and probably Ms Evans (though I don\'t think\nEvans takes much interest in the web pages), and establish at least these\ntwo things: 1) a teacher or admin person with the school to be the\nofficial contact / approver / manager for web site update; and 2) the\nscope of work to be undertaken (update only facts / names / dates, or\nupdate and mildly reorganize, or start from scratch on a new one).  It may\nbe that the teacher/admin person will want to be hands-on, but chances are\nthey will be happy to contribute ideas and directions and leave the\nhands-on operations to CUIP, which could mean mostly you.\n\nI think Shaz would like to have that main conversation with Ms. Parks\nabout establishing a couple understandings for the web site.   But by all\nmeans you could mention it if you see her and feel like bringing it up.  I\nknow this sounds very drawn-out and roundabout, but that\'s just my style\nof writing it up, after we all return from break it can be handled very\nquickly and easily.\n\nHave a real good spring break!\n\n  thanks again,\n\n   ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(185,444,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.255.129','2008-03-18 07:29:51','2008-03-18 13:29:51','(mail and post)\n(which used to be synonyms!)\n\nHi, Chelsea,\n\nThanks for your news from the MLA!  No, not the Modern Language Association ...\n\nBack at palatial CUIP HQ, we have been trying to guess what occasioned your hundreds of pages of pasting.  If it was all the unique illustrations for the different vocab items on the flash-cards areas, then sad to say it\'s probably necessary to undertake that tedious approach. (Though I have had fever dreams about numbering the pages and images and letting some PHP put in the IMG tags and the Next/Previous links programmatically.  Do you think that would fly?) \n\n But if there are identical items being propagated into invariable areas of those many pages, this sounds like an opportunity to streamline the operation using the Templates feature of Dreamweaver.  If this might help, please remind Sara or me or Joe Mills to give you an intro to that feature.  Really, you\'ll be pleased with it.\n\nScratch!  I\'m glad to hear you\'re looking forward to working on this with the kids -- so are several of the CUIP staffers.  \n\nThanks agaIn,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(186,445,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.255.129','2008-03-17 15:19:59','2008-03-17 21:19:59','(posted and mail)\n\nHi Sasha,\n\nThanks for all your good work at Woodlawn and your very clear & effective reporting.\n\nThe brief help on the barcode scanner is that it plugs into the keyboard PS/2 port on the computer, and then the keyboard itself plugs into the scanner device.  And you\'ve got to have that keyboard involved ... It doesn\'t work to just have the scanner in the PS/2 and separately be using a USB keyboard for keyboarding purposes. \n\nI trust the librarian must have been working with Ms. Johnson to get the library automation software going.  This is something a school\'s Tech Coordinator is always going to be involved in.  BTW, do you recall what kind it is -- Follett or Athena or other?  Please let them know, If they have anything to work out with the installation they should bring more CUIP in -- both  Russ and I have experience with these programs.  \n\nWith best wishes for your exams & papers, and an enjoyable break,\n\n\n  ==mitch\n\nP.S.  It looks like you left somebody else\'s name in the text content of your report.  If you have no objection, I\'ll just edit in a correction.',0,'1','','',0,2),(187,447,'mitch','mitchell@cuip.net','','75.2.250.178','2008-04-08 08:24:06','2008-04-08 14:24:06','Thanks for the schedule update, Emily.\n\nThe School account may not be in the image, or may be there with the old password and didn\'t get updated (what with the network problems).  If you can get on as techco, you could try checking the users list and if necessary creating School or updating the password.  (The old password, if you want to try it directly, was \"[deleted in blog, intact in email]\" all lowercase. )\n\nThe yearbook project is getting exciting!\n\n  == Mitch\n\n(mailed and posted)',0,'1','','',0,0),(188,448,'mitch','mitchell@cuip.net','','75.2.250.178','2008-04-08 08:58:20','2008-04-08 14:58:20','Hi, Bryan, glad you\'re back!\n\nThis could be the right time for starting to extend Deep Freeze into the classrooms, if it\'s working well in the lab and the teachers (and students for that matter) have gotten used to working with it.  This teacher suggesting it for her room is a good sign! \n\nThe first steps would be some discussion/planning: with Ms. Evans, to check if she is happy with the idea in general or has any view on whether 207 is the right place to start; and then with this teacher, to make sure she\'s up to speed on how it affects saving student work.  (Also we should talk about whether to freeze her teacher-desk computer.)\n\nWhen the time comes to implement DF on these computers, here are the tech steps:\n\n <ul>\n   <li> At each computer to be frozen:\n            <ul> \n                    <li> Make sure it\'s clean, remediated, remove extraneous programs, check student desktop appearance ... \n                    <li> Log in as techco.  Browse to harte-adm01, choose the Deep Freeze button from the righthand rail.\n                   <li> Because the console is working well at Harte, use the link for \"Seed the computer for Deep Freeze\", not the \"Install full client program\" .  (I don\'t have this in front of me, just making up the wording.)\n                    <li> After the seed installs, log off techco.  Or reboot, if that\'s what it asks for -- I think the seed program doesn\'t demand this.\n\n            </ul>\n   <li> At Harte, the DF console is installed on the school fileserver, not a desktop computer.  So go to a computer you can use for Remote Desktop Connecton, and run the RDC utility to get to the server, logging in as techco (or another admin for the server -- your INSTR account may work for this).\n  <li> The Deep Freeze console ought to have a shortcut icon on the desktop.  you can run it without being asked for an additional password or anything. \n   <li> In the \"Custom Groupings\" area, make a folder for Room-207. \n  <li> The computers seeded in the classroom ought to show up in the \"Complete Network\" listing or the INSTR branch.  Select them in the GUI and pull them into the custom folder for the class. \n  <li> With that room\'s computers selected (or you can do this one or two at a time if it balks at four or five at once), choose \"Install\" from a context-menu or I think available as an icon in the toolbar.  In the console, as these process (give it time!), you will see the computer\'s reported status change from Seeded to Frozen.  If you\'re in the room with the computers, you should see them do a remote-control forced reboot.\n <li> Optionally, to see how it went, log in to one of the newly frozen computers as the designated student user, observe the DF icon, etc.\n </ul> \n\n(Is this markup going to work?  Hmph!)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(189,451,'mitch','mitchell@cuip.net','','75.2.250.178','2008-04-08 08:01:13','2008-04-08 14:01:13','(mail and post)\n\n\nHi, Dana, thanks for the schedule update.  \n\nWe\'ll try to get an answer on Vista SP1.  Am i over-reading, or does your discussion of this imply that you did see something on the ITS site (or some CPS info) about Vista itself, apart from the service pack or updates?\n\nI\'m glad to hear Mr. Laws now has a laptop.  We fussed over that hole-in-the-wall network cable long enough!  Your point about the Rapid-Eye software is well-taken ... if there isn\'t an installer file somewhere there\'s a chance that the installed executable from another computer could work if copied, but not a sure thing by any means.  worth a try though.  You might also look around for associated DLLs in the system area and registry keys.  (Or maybe they can request an installer from the original source?)  \n\nAnother possibility is Remote Desktop Connection to another workstation (needs to be XP I think) where the software is running.   You would need to go to that computer as techco and authorize the remote.  \n\n  Thanks,\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(190,455,'Jackson Wright','smitethis@gmail.com','','128.135.198.97','2008-04-14 14:13:35','2008-04-14 20:13:35','Nice pun Han!',0,'1','','',0,0),(191,456,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.241.51','2008-04-10 16:47:49','2008-04-10 22:47:49','That leaves me speechless!\n\nHowever, I do eagerly look forward to seeing the new setup in the lab.  (Provided it\'s been cleaned up.)  This plan has been in the works for such a long time, it\'s great that you guys have pushed ahead with it.',0,'1','','',0,2),(192,456,'sara','sara@cuip.net','','75.33.254.246','2008-04-11 05:54:07','2008-04-11 11:54:07','wow...\n\nI\'m glad to hear that the yearbook club went well!',0,'1','','',0,0),(193,462,'Emily','ewatkins@uchicago.edu','','209.175.47.162','2008-04-14 08:33:46','2008-04-14 14:33:46','Hey Dana,\nIf you don\'t mind, I\'m going to leave the ghosting to you -- I\'m not super comfortable with it yet. Let me know on Tuesday if you have any tidying up left to do on Ms. Alexander\'s computer which you\'d like me to take care of!',0,'1','','',0,0),(194,469,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.241.51','2008-04-22 13:24:55','2008-04-22 19:24:55','Congrats to both of you on getting the Rapid-Eye software installed and working! Mr. Laws is always so friendly and helpful, I’m glad CUIP/NSP was able to do something directly helping him.\n\n ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(195,470,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.241.51','2008-04-22 08:06:25','2008-04-22 14:06:25','(post and mail)\n\nI was sorry to hear you were sick.  Thanks for sending your absence note to Ms. Dean and us.  I certainly hope you\'ll be feeling better soon.\n\nThat 1789 error is disappointing.  Is it for some but not all, or completely all of the MOLLISON2 computers?    Are the domain services generally working?  I guess we have to keep an eye on the little server ... if it goes offline, there would be a cascade of other errors.  Also let\'s check that the MOLLISON2 computers still allow INSTR logins.  \n\nThanks!,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(196,471,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.241.51','2008-04-22 13:13:14','2008-04-22 19:13:14','(Mail and post)\n\nHi, Dana,\n\nIt would be excellent if you still have another chance to get into Mr Hinton\'s hands that Constitution site that Sara sent you ...the Chicago Web Docent is a CUIP content initiative, sort of a sister project to our group that works with the NSP.  If he would like any addtional advice on using this module with his students, we can put him in touch with the Director of the Web Docent project.\n\nYeah, the CD-ROM version of the network boot disc has some good points and some bad points.  It loads much faster than the floppy-based verson, and works on computers with damaged or missing floppy drives.  OTOH the floppies are writable on any computer, so you can save a profile and the username+password.  (Also, though I don\'t think this comes up at Fermi, if need be you can look up and add to the floppy an additional NDIS / DOS-level driver for a card not covered in the standard distribution.)  I\'m glad to hear you came up with what you needed to use the CD-ROM.\n\nCongrats to both of you on getting the Rapid-Eye software installed and working!  Mr. Laws is always so friendly and helpful, I\'m glad CUIP/NSP was able to do something drectly helping him.\n\n  Thanks for  your fine work and reporting,\n\n   ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(197,474,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.241.51','2008-04-26 09:16:21','2008-04-26 15:16:21','How time flies away from us!  I didn\'t finish commenting on last week\'s reports yet  ... I wanted to remark on your quotation from Oppenheimer.  What a surprising thing for him to say.  Do you sense there\'s a return of interest in his life story?  Is the \"Doctor Atomic\" opera just an instance of that, or more like the force behind it?',0,'1','','',0,2),(198,476,'koll','kevinjkoll@gmail.com','http://','209.175.47.162','2008-04-25 11:53:40','2008-04-25 17:53:40','I see wordpress turned number eight into a smiley face.',0,'1','','',0,40),(199,476,'mitch','mitchell@cuip.net','','75.2.241.51','2008-04-26 08:56:47','2008-04-26 14:56:47','Next to a parenthesis, yeh, weird ;) !  I think the eight indicated sunglasses.',0,'1','','',0,0),(200,476,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.241.51','2008-04-27 10:26:18','2008-04-27 16:26:18','(mailed and posted)\n\nTo turn to the more substantial aspects of your report ...\n\n 1) Yes, exactly as you note, that lab has been a sorry story for quite a while, despite CUIP full-crew fixup visits and various school plans for keeping it in shape.  Ms. Herron\'s decision to keep it generally locked makes sense; maybe there\'s still time this year to implement a teacher check-out system.\n\n  BTW, if at some point it looks to you like a couple mice, a couple keyboards, or even an extra ethernet hub could improve the functioning of the lab enough to improve the atmosphere, we do have such items available.\n\n  Maybe next year they really will bring in a bunch of new Tech-XL machines.  \n\n2) It\'s disappointing that the behavioral problems you got immersed in were with a laptop cart session, not even the cruddy desktop lab! \n\n   As Shaz discussed at the NSP/CUIP meeting earlier this quarter, if it\'s your feeling a teacher is letting a class run wild, Shaz and Sara can find non-confrontational ways of injecting some feedback at an appropriate level.  \n\n  That\'s a really interesting observation about the vicious cycle of the tech problems and the behavioral problems.  Do you think it would tamp down that pattern to have a couple more adults on hand, both to troubleshoot the signon issues but covertly also to stare down the rambunctious students?\n\nIt\'s great that you\'re bearing up with it cheerfully, it seems!\n\nThanks a lot,\n\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(201,477,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.241.51','2008-04-27 09:58:15','2008-04-27 15:58:15','(mailed and posted)\n\nYes, when I talked with Ms. Parks about printers we ended up just going over a hand-written list of suitable models available from the CPS authorized sellers (Office Depot and CDWG), but I couldn\'t find a graceful way to suggest going on line right away and putting in an order.  Clearly, she wants to think it over some more, or get some more advice, or squeeze something from the budget ...\n\nTo address a related question from last week (I fell behind!), yes you have to thaw a DF-frozen computer to install an IP printer.  BTW, as you freeze these additional classrooms, do you find yourself more doing afull setup at the client computer, or doing the seed at the client then working from the console to finish the setup?  Both are good, I was just curious which works out better for you.  If you haven\'t been using the console, at some point you might want to fire it up tocheck the new stations are showing up in its listing, and maybe making folders for the new classrooms.\n\nCongrats on getting Ms. Allen\'s students onto the project!  Please try your best to keep her substantially involved, so it doesn\'t turn into only you and the students -- we hope to leave a legacy of \"how to do it\" with the teachers.  \n\nIf anything pans out with Ms. Goosby\'s \"fake trips around the world\" we can hook her up with a <b>lot</b> of help on using Google Earth.\n\nThanks as always for effective reporting and for doing a fine job at the school.\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(202,478,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.241.51','2008-04-26 09:09:53','2008-04-26 15:09:53','Hi, Clare, thanks for posting your note! \n\nI guess this was Fire Drill Week.  We had one Thursday at Murray.  \n\nWhen I was growing up in Miami, the cool professional aspiration for kids was Marine Biologist.  So I still read \"project on sea animals\" and think \"wow, maybe some of them will grow up to become Marine biologists, wouldn\'t that be great!\".',0,'1','','',0,2),(203,483,'sara','sara@cuip.net','','209.175.47.162','2008-04-30 08:14:55','2008-04-30 14:14:55','Dana,\n\nI got a chance to talk to Mr. Hinton about the Constitution web resources last week (specifically the CWD stuff I emailed to you).  It sounded like he was pretty much set with the books and workbooks he\'s going to be using, so don\'t stress too much about talking to him about the web resources.',0,'1','','',0,0),(204,489,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.241.51','2008-05-06 09:47:56','2008-05-06 15:47:56','Thanks, Bryan!  It\'s good to hear things are going so well.',0,'1','','',0,2),(205,491,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.241.51','2008-05-05 07:29:20','2008-05-05 13:29:20','(mail and post)\n\nHey Sasha, thanks for your report, and thanks again for obtaining that Dell riser / horizontal card cage.  It will be very useful at  Fiske.   \n\nIt sounds great that TechKnow will be starting up soon and that you\'ll be able to participate again!  Please be sure the total hours and the particular hours work out with your academic load and any formal restrictions frm the NSP office.\n\n  ==Mitch\n \n\n\nDisclaimer: Weird, the \"o\" key is skipping a lot today, just as my \"a\" key was a week ago.  I\'m putting them back in when I notice. (I think crumbs get under the keys -- gtta stop snacking with the computer open.) Other spelling errrs I can claim as my own!',0,'1','','',0,2),(206,492,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.241.51','2008-05-05 08:34:09','2008-05-05 14:34:09','(mail and post)\n\nHi, Louisa, thanks for your report!\n\nLet me suggest putting a simple set of numbers on the computers in the lab, just like what we have at Sexton.  (Actually, I\'m not sure if that was in place during your time at Sextn.)  Then we can discuss computer number 5, say, visible on a tag or label, instead of resorting to those non-sequential (and sometimes concealed) asset-tag/network-name numbers.\n\n We did install MS Office on two machines where it was missing (on Wednesday) -- so you\'re not hallucinating, or at least not on the evidence of this ;)\n\nA.R. was an afterthought or optional installation, since we found the data on the server and were touching each workstation anyway.  But nobody\'s really eager to input the students/classes and start using this so late in the year.  So there\'s no concern about it being missing on a particular station.  Joe r I can show you the installation routine sometime, if it seems worthwhile extending the AR stations fr consistency.  First Class is generally installing itself, thugh we could do it manually if there\'s a station where it\'s just nt happening.\n\nI know the cmputer you\'re talking about, placed at the wireless island but without functioning wireless.  All its other problems or oddities stem from that, e.g. the \"Welcome Screen\" (button logins) will change to a 3-line login window if/when it gets put onto a domain.  S this cmputer needs either a replacement/reinstallation f its wireless card, or just being mved t the periphery and connected by wire.   \n\nWe\'re all agreed that the whole system works less well on the wireless stations in the middle, in general.  But there\'s no general slution in the offing, at least in the short term.  If you find yourself in there alng with the classes that are starting to use it, maybe you can collect observations on whether it\'s interfering with successful class use.  \n\nThanks much,\n\n  == Mitch\n\n\nDisclaimer: Weird, the \"o\" key is skipping a lot today, just as \nmy \"a\" key was a week ago.  I\'m putting them back in when I \nnotice. (I think crumbs get under the keys -- gtta stop snacking \nwith the computer open.) Other spelling errrs I can claim as my \nown!',0,'1','','',0,2),(207,493,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.241.51','2008-05-06 09:45:43','2008-05-06 15:45:43','Hiya, Dana,                                                                                             \n                                                                                                        \nI\'m glad the Norwegian Disk worked out.  BTW, if you took the scattershot                               \napproach (as I generally do) and opened several accounts, I trust you                                   \nalready did or will soon re-password those privileged accounts.  Also                                   \nmaking the CUIP account an admin would be a protection against the absurd                               \nCatch-22 situation with Techco -- then either account can release the                                   \nother.                                                                                                  \n                                                                                                        \nI still haven\'t gotten to the Media Center!  I\'m looking forward to it.                                 \nWhat sort of video editing software are you thinking about?  Are enough of                              \nthe computers on XP/SP2 that Windows Movie Maker would work out? (Or is it                              \nnot suitable to the project anyway?)                                                                    \n                                                                                                    \nMr. Laws has mentioned how valuable and flexible he is finding that Rapid                               \nEye.                                                                                                    \n                                                                                                        \n  Thanks,                                                                                               \n                                                                                                        \n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(208,494,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','75.2.241.51','2008-05-05 16:44:54','2008-05-05 22:44:54','Heya, Jackson,\n\nThanks for the reporting. The LIP (LAN Improvement Plan -- so this is a two-level acronym) is surveying selected schools for wireless, as you noted.  Besides client cards, they will be putting in access points to essentially blanket the building in CPS wi-fi, so it will be convenient to use wireless laptops or future-purchase wireless desktops as needed, especially in locations not currently wired.  They will also be upgrading switches in the CBOXen.  \n\nThere was a big meeting a couple months ago, and they were rather close-mouthed about when the schools would be pipelined into the system.  (Only about 150 schools citywide are in this year.)  So it\'s a good thing you were on hand to observe this.  \n\nWhat model is that Dell?  It\'s entirely typical that after W2K install some of them have no network and primitive display until the drivers can be updated.  We have a couple convenient Dell driver CDs.\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(209,495,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.241.51','2008-05-06 08:50:00','2008-05-06 14:50:00','Fan-tas-tic!  \n\nI\'m looking forward to the Woodson-specific content as it comes along.  Do you know if the plan is for some teachers to post on their own, or will most be working via you three experts?  \n\nWe\'ve just started exploring Drupal for various CUIP purposes, and have been hlding Joomla in reserve as the next thing to try.  But you\'re cnvincing me to push ahead with a trial of Joomla.  Thanks!\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(210,499,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2008-05-12 12:56:29','2008-05-12 18:56:29','Thanks, Sasha!  Sounds like there are a lot of good things going on there.\n\nIs that a new scanner?  We were half expecting the principal to replace his old scanner.  \n\nI sat in on a quarter of TechKnow at WCS last year, and I know what you mean about Ms. J sometimes being rough with the equipment.  I think it would be very wise if you continue to look the other way, and just mention this to Russ and me; we can approach her on more of an adult-colleague basis.\n\nBest regards,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(211,500,'Mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2008-05-12 12:02:26','2008-05-12 18:02:26','Heya, Li An,\n\nThe FTP service problem may be just the CPS firewall.  They block almost any port from outside access, even though you\'ve got a valid directable address (209.175.45.13).\n\nFrom inside CPS, try giving the address as numerical IP; if not the external one just mentioned, maybe the private one, 10.45.250.100.  \n\nWill Joomla itself give you any help, thru the \"FTP layer\"?  I think you could turn that on and have it deliver only to \"localhost\", giving a roundabout way of uploading.\n\nLet me know how it turns out!\n\nThanks,\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(212,501,'Mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2008-05-12 08:28:46','2008-05-12 14:28:46','Gee whiz, Rafael, can\'t you get to the point?  Do you really need to go on and on?  :-)',0,'1','','',0,0),(213,502,'Mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2008-05-12 08:32:50','2008-05-12 14:32:50','Are you sure the phone jack is a regular analog line?  I\'m not sure what the story would be if the Fax were connected to a digital voice line.  \n\n ==mitch\n\nP.S.  If we get a chance, I\'ll send you some details on some setup options I ran across with Fermi-web01.',0,'1','','',0,0),(214,504,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2008-05-12 12:39:55','2008-05-12 18:39:55','Hi, Louisa,\n\nThanks for your clear and specific reports!  Monday for posting is no problem at all.  (If you want to record each day while it is fresh in mind, you might do a draft and \"save\" rather than \"publish\" to hold it for later.)\n\nSure, a login can malfunction temporarily.  But chances are, she didn\'t actually have them doing <i>exactly</i> the things you showed them.  It doesn\'t matter much: the value-added of doing the REAVISDOM login is just the connection to the server storage.  \n\n\nWe were thinking Mr. K might not really have the time available.  But it\'s good news if the other video project is proceeding apace.  \n\nThe school website is under this external service people, at least this year.  There is a management system that they\'ve got instructions for, so it will be much easier than a raw web editing job.  (But maybe not as easy as Word Press...)\n\nShowing the Sexton blogs is a fine idea.  Sara was setting those up for the Sexton teachers because she is the \"TRA\" or primary contact for that school.  We don\'t have a TRA per se for Reavis this year, but are handling it \"by committee\".  Woops, I\'m rambling.  The upshot is that any of Joe or Shaz or I, or Sara, could make a blog for her -- just let us know.  \n\nThanks, \n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(215,505,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2008-05-12 12:10:45','2008-05-12 18:10:45','(posted and mailed)\n\nHi, Joe,\n\nSorry I didn\'t have the category ready for you.  (That\'s been corrected.)  And don\'t worry about reporting on Monday: that\'s fine.  \n\nBut anyway, thanks for getting a report in, and for the work you\'ve been doing at Fiske.  I think you\'ve made a really fine start.\n\nRegards,\n\n  Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(216,514,'Mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2008-05-19 10:53:07','2008-05-19 15:53:07','Hey, Dana, welcome to the club -- last year I also knocked over (and broke) a glass knick-knack from a Fermi teacher\'s desk area.  It wasn\'t Ms. Alexander, so at least we\'re not picking on her!  It feels awkward at the time, but my victim accepted my apologies and it totally was blown over by the following week.  \n\nI dropped in one day last week and met one of the wireless guys, and got  some of the codes for the new system.  They\'ll be turning the info over to Dr. Sanders, so we\'ll have it available when needed to join additional or rejoin current computers.  As I mentioned in separate email, the one unit in the lab the Sentinel guy pointed out to me was station #25, and I replaced it with one from the cabinet.\n\nLooking forward to ripping out all that CAT5 and the cascade of hubs?\n\n\nThanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(217,537,'mitch','mitchell@cuip.net','','75.2.248.112','2008-10-07 09:16:50','2008-10-07 14:16:50','Hey Dana, congrats on the first reporting of the new school year!   \n\nWe\'re just trying out the idea behind the Fermi Tech To-Do List shared on Google Docs -- only doing it for a few schools, and setting it up somewhat different ways at each place.  So we\'ll be very interested in continuing to hear how it\'s working out for you, and what improvements you might suggest.\n\nI\'m glad to see you\'ve swooped onto the Library cluster problems.  Whatever you come up with that works is fine of course, including swapping CPUs from the cabinet upstairs.  I did think some of the units in the Library might be better than they would seem at first, if given PS/2 instead of USB mice and keyboards, or vice versa -- not that mice and keyboards are well-supplied, I realize.\n\nSometime on-site let\'s look at the new wireless system, which uses WPA instead of WEP, with what appears to be a school-specific SSID (network name) and key.  (Which Sara or I can give you anytime, if she hasn\'t done so already.)   It\'s doing okay with the ones the installation company handled, using the combo driver/connection-manager client software from the card/antenna company.  Also we\'ve been able to join Macintosh laptops to the network using that SSID and key and figuring out how to fill in the gaps in some instructions we have.  But so far we haven\'t joined any Windows XP computers to the wireless using just the built-in Microsoft tools rather than the Cisco/Aironet client.  So this is an area for some fiddling around ...\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(218,539,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','75.2.248.112','2008-10-14 08:59:02','2008-10-14 13:59:02','welcome back, Jackson, and thanks for your report!\n\nI\'m right along with you in liking what Stanley has been doing for the school.  He\'s very good to work with.  \n\nIf you get a chance, we\'re interested in figuring out what they\'ve been doing with the \"new-style\" wireless setups.  So if Stanley is okay with it, could you get the SSID and key from him, and email it to Shaz and me?  Also if you can look on a computer that the contractor set up and note the settings (like it\'s not WEP but WPA instead -- but there are different kinds of WPA and some subsidiary settings, and that\'s what we\'re getting hung up by).\n\nSee you around, and thanks again,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(219,541,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','75.2.248.112','2008-10-14 09:04:11','2008-10-14 14:04:11','Hey Dana, good to hear you\'re still on track with those Library computers.  We\'re seeing mouse shortages at several schools; I guess they\'re just easy to steal :(\n\nI\'ll send you the wireless info that we have for Fermi -- there are still some gaps in where the settings go under this \"new style\".  It\'s not just that the SSID and key are school-specific, there\'s a switch to a different authentication/encryption system.  \n\nSee you soon I hope,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(220,559,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.248.112','2008-10-20 08:19:19','2008-10-20 13:19:19','(Both posted and emailed.)\n(BTW, please also see email-only note on letter-grading Ray computers.)\n\nHi, Zhang, it\'s really good to have you back, and right on the case like this!\n\n On the server and printers stuff, I\'d like to meet up with you briefly on-site this week.  Mostly we should activate an INSTR account for you and make sure it\'s in group GG-Tech-Ray, or equivalently set a password that you will control for the existing semi-generic INSTR account that already belongs to that group.  But also we should discuss the general printing strategies for the classrooms and labs.\n\n(Even without either approach to an admin INSTR account, the server just like the desktops has a this-computertechco privileged user, with the standard school-specific techco password.  That user should be able to manage the printers -- it\'s just not a domain user so can\'t do anything about the group-policy-based printer scripts. Also I\'m not sure if it can RDC to the server, but if need be you could go to the console physically at the MDF.  But if it\'s not more urgent, hold off and we\'ll do one of the INSTR approaches.)\n\nThe classroom computer printing to the lab printer is of course just one more ill side-effect of teachers moving  computers around without consulting the tech folks.    If we don\'t decide to give up on \"Location-Based Printing\" (with Group-Policy-based script), then one of the necessary but less than obvious things that needs to be changed when moving a computer is the Computer Description field, since the script branches based on this.  I suspect the system is getting too old and cranky to be useful much longer; but with direct TCP/IP printer entries, you still have to do something on each moved computer, so there doesn\'t seem to be a zero-extra-labor answer.  Let\'s you-and-me-and-Russ talk over this decision -- it would be nice to have a Ray admin or teacher in on this, but AFAIK there is only one who would be able to follow the tech side of the question and she probably doesn\'t want to be involved.\n\n  Thanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(221,569,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2008-10-23 11:08:30','2008-10-23 16:08:30','Hi, Louisa, I\'m glad to see you\'re back with us!  \n\nThe \"official\" wireless installation that\'s in the works is supposed to also upgrade the Ethernet switches in the classroom Concentrator Boxes, which might resuscitate some of the nonfunctioning network jacks in the raceways.  Meanwhile, that sort of shuffling cables that you mention, tedious as it is, remains a very practical solution.   -- But if you see a case of that where everything could be simplified by throwing a mini-switch (hub) into the mess, don\'t hesitate to suggest it.  \n\nCheers,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(222,571,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2008-10-23 11:46:47','2008-10-23 16:46:47','Hey, Dana, thanks a lot for showing me how you cracked the WPA setup mystery!  Also thanks for your big help in getting Cliff oriented to CPS tech outlook and the Fermi specifics.  \n\nAs I think I said in person, your plan for the Acers sounds good.  We\'re going to ask about the required quantities for official CPS Asset Disposal.\n\n(If you had a certain jowly kind of hound, would you need to get it a Basset Tag?)\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(223,583,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.248.112','2008-10-26 09:50:50','2008-10-26 14:50:50','Hey, Tommy, thanks for getting right into the swing of things, both with your work at the school and filing reports here.  \n\nRuss may be able to drop off a replacement CPS W2K OS Installer CDROM on Monday morning.  (That\'s as many initialisms as I could plausibly use together.:-)\n\nGood job of resourcefulness in finding drivers and related utilities!  I look forward to getting the details from you and getting a copy of that SF download device identifier you mention.\n\n  ==mitch\n\n--\nMitchell Marks\nCUIP Tech Coordinator\nCUIP: Chicago Public Schools / Univ. of Chicago Internet Project\nhttp://cuip.net/cuip \n5640 S Ellis Ave  AAC-007, Univ of Chgo, Chgo IL 60637\n\nPhones: Area 773  (O) 702-6041  (F) 702-8212  (H) 241-7166 (C) 620-6744\n\nEmail: Primary address: mitchell@cuip.net\n        CPS:  mmarks@cps.edu (alternate mmarks@cps.k12.il.us)\n        Alternate UofC addresses (use especially to report problems with CUIPWIT mail!):\n           mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu and mmar@uchicago.edu\n        Off-campus (ISP) address: mmarks@pobox.com\n\n\"Ah, but a man\'s reach should exceed his grasp\" --\nElse what\'s a meta for?\n\n    -- still browning on the flip side',0,'1','','',0,2),(224,585,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.248.112','2008-10-26 09:22:32','2008-10-26 14:22:32','Thanks, Rafe! It\'s good to know that you\'re taking care of business for us down at SOE.\n\nIf it\'s any consolation for the tedium of inventory, you might have picked up from postings here or remarks just in the air, that several schools felt the need for inventories hear at year\'s start.\n\nThanks again,\n\n  ==Mitch\n\n\n\n\n \"And Shirley Gustafson-Murphy shall follow me all the days of my life.\"\n\nMitchell Marks \nCUIP Tech Coordinator    \nCUIP: Chicago Public Schools / Univ. of Chicago Internet Project\nhttp://cuip.net/cuip\n5640 S Ellis Ave  AAC-007, Univ of Chgo, Chgo IL 60637 \n\nPhones: Area 773  (O) 702-6041  (F) 702-8212  (H) 241-7166 (C) 620-6744\n\nEmail: Primary address: mitchell@cuip.net\n        CPS: mmarks@cps.edu (alternate mmarks@cps.k12.il.us)\n        Alternate UofC addresses (use especially to report problems with CUIPWIT mail!): \n           mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu and mmar@uchicago.edu\n        Off-campus (ISP) address: mmarks@pobox.com',0,'1','','',0,2),(225,593,'Sara','sara@cuip.net','','128.135.76.94','2008-10-27 10:00:07','2008-10-27 15:00:07','I can\'t wait to see the lab.  It surely needed to be cleaned and organized!  As for the big old printers and copiers, I\'ll check with Dr. Sanders, but I\'m guessing they\'ll just get thrown into the Asset Disposal pile.',0,'1','','',0,0),(226,625,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2008-11-05 13:08:01','2008-11-05 18:08:01','Hi, Chris, thanks for getting into the reporting here.  (As I mentioned when I saw you today, the existing \"Chris\" category was actually used by somebody else a while ago -- now you\'ve got your own and they\'ve got your full names attached.)\n<blockquote>\nFor anyone browsing who might find it of interest: The home pages for the \"Norwegian Disk\" are no longer blocked within CPS.  The URL is http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ and you can usually find it in a search engine using terms \"nordahl\" and \"password\".  (If you don\'t know what this is about: The \"Norwegian Disk\" can help you log into an admin account on a Windows computer that seems otherwise locked out.  Ask your CUIP staffer if you want details.)\n</blockquote>\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(227,646,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.248.112','2008-11-12 13:00:35','2008-11-12 18:00:35','posting and mailing)\n\nHeya Jackson!\n\nThanks for alerting us to the wireless issues there.  I swung by and took a look at a couple computers with Stanley, and saw just what you\'re talking about with the card being either yankable-by-the-wire or contrariwise getting pushed inward.  I got the impression from him that the contractors were giving you guys some lip, which is quite unfortunate.  OTOH they\'re correct to point out they\'re just the installation crew, not the system designers, and can\'t substitute a different brand or model.  (On a third hand, we think we\'ve seen the Cisco Aironet PCI card in both half-height and full-height models, in the recent batch of school installations, and sometimes the shortie was used where it should not have been.  That\'s clearly an error, though not precisely what you were facing at Mollison.)  \n\nIt must be said, there is also the element of student behavior.  Too bad the students there didn\'t get a pre-lab briefing about the new setup.  Ah well, the schools can\'t always work these things out.\n\nIt looks like the installers\' pattern when they find a wired room but with more computers than working (and accessible) network jacks -- hence with hubs or mini-switches tucked away under tables etc etc -- is to target the computers in the mini-switches to get wireless, with the idea of ending up with each computer ether plugged in directly to a wall-or-floor raceway jack or else on the wireless.  So Stanley and I were glancing around and confirmed there seem to be no more hubs/mini-switches in the lab -- along with your clean-up efforts, it is looking good!  \n\nBut there is an issue with that -- OTS never puts in little hubs, so all of those were put there by CUIP or paid by Mollison\'s petty cash funding.  So the wireless contractor should not be treating them as salvage and carting them off, as we think they have done at some schools.   If you get a chance, please see if you can scout around and find if there are packed-up cartons with these hubs and maybe CAT5 cable segments.  If they\'re sitting there and have labels for shipping to the contractor, please ask Stanley or the school admins to put it aside and hold off on sending it out, and let Shaz and me know.  Thanks!\n\nHave you been updating the Mollison school web?  I guess there aren\'t new items on the front chronology, but linked listings look updated.  If you can fit this stuff in with everything else, cool!  (But I\'m practicing saying \"Maximum!\").  (And it took me a minute to realize Zero People is a band, not a description)\n\nThanks much,\n\n  ==Mitch \n\n--\nMitchell Marks \nCUIP Tech Coordinator    http://cuip.uchicago.edu\nCUIP: Chicago Public Schools / Univ. of Chicago Internet Project\n5640 S Ellis Ave  AAC-007, Univ of Chgo, Chgo IL 60637 \n\nTelephones:  Area 773 (O) 702-6041 (C) 620-6744 (F) 702-8212 (H) 241-7166  \nEmail: Primary address: mitchell@cuip.uchicago.edu\n	CPS: mmarks@cps.edu (alternate mmarks@cps.k12.il.us)\n	Alternate UofC addresses (use especially to report problems with cuip.uchicago.edu): mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu and mmar@midway.uchicago.edu\n	Off-campus (ISP) address: mmarks@pobox.com\n\nAh, Sun-flower! weary of time,\nWho countest the steps of the Sun,\nSeeking after that sweet golden clime\nWhere the traveller\'s journey is done:\n\nWhere the Youth pined away with desire\nAnd the pale Virgin shrouded in snow\nArise from their graves, and aspire\nWhere my Sun-flower wishes to go.',0,'1','','',0,2),(228,652,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.248.112','2008-11-12 13:10:44','2008-11-12 18:10:44','Hi, Tommy, thanks for plugging ahead with those donated CPUs!  \n\nNow that I finally remembered to start taking my Memory Pills :-) , I also remembered that I\'ve been meaning to ask you for several weeks what that device-identifier program was that you mention downloading from Sourceforge.  That would be useful to several schools handling donated/repaired machines and always on the hunt for drivers. \n\n(Hey, maybe we should establish a driver repository for just the computer models we tend to run into!)\n\n  Thanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(229,654,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.248.112','2008-11-13 10:00:54','2008-11-13 15:00:54','Hi, Chris,\n\nThanks for your reporting and for the fine work you\'re doing.  I\'m glad you were able to get out of the computer junkyard area for some more interesting excursions (even if that was largely for Gradebook).  As the quarter moves on,  Shaz will be finding you more opportunities to work with teachers.  \n\nIt\'s a little frustrating for us to try helping teachers with custom setups in Gradebook, since we\'re not part of the system and don\'t have occasion to work in Gradebook for our own concerns.  (Unlike First Class, the CPS email-plus system, where CUIP staff do have accounts and work out settings for ourselves that we can then share with teachers.)  So your approach is very sensible -- offering another set of eyes (and familiarity with how online programs tend to work), to help teachers work through issues for themselves.  When that doesn\'t work, schools should have an in-house expert of sorts to advise others (CPS calls this the train-the-trainers model).  I\'m not sure if Ms. Warden is that person for Wadsworth (or whether she would want to be), but you could certainly go to her with a question framed as \"Mr. XYZ is having a problem with Gradebook, to whom can I refer him?\".  \n\nPlease let me know if there\'s a recalcitrant computer in the lab fix-up section (or on a classroom help request) that I might come over there and look at together with you.  Also, please share your thoughts if you have some ideas for whether/how we could set up a small driver library facility for the CUIP/NSPs working on some of the same computer models at some of our schools. (Say, have you been dealing with any Acer Veriton 5100 / 5200 / 5500s?)\n\nThanks,\n\n ==Mitch\n\n\nMitchell Marks \nCUIP Tech Coordinator    http://cuip.uchicago.edu\nCUIP: Chicago Public Schools / Univ. of Chicago Internet Project\n5640 S Ellis Ave  AAC-007, Univ of Chgo, Chgo IL 60637 \n\nTelephones:  Area 773 (O) 702-6041 (C) 620-6744 (F) 702-8212 (H) 241-7166  \nEmail: Primary address: mitchell@cuip.uchicago.edu\n	CPS: mmarks@cps.edu (alternate mmarks@cps.k12.il.us)\n	Alternate UofC addresses (use especially to report problems with cuip.uchicago.edu): mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu and mmar@midway.uchicago.edu\n	Off-campus (ISP) address: mmarks@pobox.com\n\nAh, Sun-flower! weary of time,\nWho countest the steps of the Sun,\nSeeking after that sweet golden clime\nWhere the traveller\'s journey is done:\n\nWhere the Youth pined away with desire\nAnd the pale Virgin shrouded in snow\nArise from their graves, and aspire\nWhere my Sun-flower wishes to go.',0,'1','','',0,2),(230,660,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.242.205','2009-05-09 09:13:14','2009-05-09 14:13:14','(posted and mailed)\n\nHiya, Zhang, \n\nWe might need to update/remind the teachers on the fixits binder.  Some may be distracted from the present technology by the fuss around the Sun Ray proposal. <b> If you can drop by the school this coming Wednesday in midday (from 11:30), you might enjoy seeing the Sun demo session being set up for the Ray teachers in the lunchroom.</b> \n\nSee you around,\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(231,660,'zzhang','zzhang6@uchicago.edu','http://cs.uchicago.edu/~zz1','128.135.220.149','2009-05-12 02:21:17','2009-05-12 07:21:17','Unfortunately I have class then--otherwise I would like to see how this is going. I am curious about this Sun Ray proposal. How far in are talks to use it, if it is implemented, when would it be done and to what scale? Are they thinking of replacing all classroom computers with this?',0,'1','','',0,35),(232,661,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.248.112','2008-11-12 10:31:09','2008-11-12 15:31:09','(mail and post)\n\nHi, Zhang,\n\nThanks for your report, and for your excellent work at Ray.  The inventory was very useful at our meetng with the subcommittee.  We will download again (in case there have been updates) and put in some analysis to turn it in to the school administration.\n\nBTW, someone there mentioned a second \"technology discards\" area (besides the one we\'re familiar with, just outside the teachers\' lunchroom).  This other one is said to be toward the north end of the main building.  Are you familiar with this?\n\nI\'m intriqued by your report of doing some printer-sharing by Samba.  Do you mean simply regular Microsoft/Windows sharng, or really using Samba-on-Linux on the school\'s in-house Linux server (user mostly as the web server)?  I\'ll try to drop in soon and see how things are going with this and in general.\n\n Thanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(233,666,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.248.112','2008-11-12 11:04:20','2008-11-12 16:04:20','(mail and posting)\n\nHi, Louisa,\n\nThanks for your report!  I\'m glad to hear one of those printer problems was eased by hardware replacement -- that\'s a nice option when possible :).  Was 211 the room where we struggled with a printer when I stopped by, a couple weeks ago?  If so, I think you found the right driver all right, and it might benefit more from a new print-head unit (or ink cartridges or both) ... or of course a new printer altogether.  Sigh.\n\nHave we talked about / demoed the technique of taking the teacher\'s personal sign-in, or the student sign-in used on a particular computer, and making it (them) a member of the local Power Users group?  Sometimes that can help enable them to restart/repair the wireless connection.\n\nSome people-oriented notes:\nShaz will welcome the contact info for your video-expert friend.\nThe Reavis A.P.\'s name is spelled Andalib Khelghati.\nWe\'ve started working with the music teacher at Dumas named Mr. Robin.  Any chance Reavis\'s Ms Robin is related? (Just idle curiosity.)\n\nThanks,\n\n  ==Mitch\n\n\n\n--\nMitchell Marks \nCUIP Tech Coordinator    http://cuip.uchicago.edu\nCUIP: Chicago Public Schools / Univ. of Chicago Internet Project\n5640 S Ellis Ave  AAC-007, Univ of Chgo, Chgo IL 60637 \n\nTelephones:  Area 773 (O) 702-6041 (C) 620-6744 (F) 702-8212 (H) 241-7166  \nEmail: Primary address: mitchell@cuip.uchicago.edu\n	CPS: mmarks@cps.edu (alternate mmarks@cps.k12.il.us)\n	Alternate UofC addresses (use especially to report problems with cuip.uchicago.edu): mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu and mmar@midway.uchicago.edu\n	Off-campus (ISP) address: mmarks@pobox.com\n\nAh, Sun-flower! weary of time,\nWho countest the steps of the Sun,\nSeeking after that sweet golden clime\nWhere the traveller\'s journey is done:\n\nWhere the Youth pined away with desire\nAnd the pale Virgin shrouded in snow\nArise from their graves, and aspire\nWhere my Sun-flower wishes to go.',0,'1','','',0,2),(234,809,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2009-01-08 16:57:19','2009-01-08 21:57:19','Hi Ian,\n\nA belated reply and thank you for the report ...\n\nSara and I also worked on some of those wireless printers in December.  It\'s a pretty good solution for a school like Sexton where there are just about no hard-wired Ethernet locations.  I think these work out better than the approach we had to take in the lab, with the printers attached by USB to a computer then shared over the computer\'s wireless.\n\nAs you know, that TAPROOM location has pretty marginal wireless service.  We finally gave up on setting up the printer that way, and just created a mini-LAN with a small Ethernet switch (hub) and some cables -- they just go to the two computers and the printer, not to an uplink anywhere else.  We used the 192.168.1.* network; the printer needed to be assigned an address, but the computers just picked their own -- that\'s on the Ethernet jacks, they still have normal DHCP CPS addresses on their wireless connections.  \n\nThanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(235,816,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2009-01-08 16:29:09','2009-01-08 21:29:09','Hi, Tommy, thanks for kicking off the Winter Quarter CUIP reporting.\n\nToo bad that suggestion from Ms Ahad for a USB cable didn\'t pan out.  I don\'t understand either why their order for some hasn\'t gone thru.  Russ, any ideas?  \n\nAlso Russ may have some ideas on the best way to proceed with those donated boxes.\n\nThe new wireless installations at several schools differ from the old wireless which was uniform across CPS.  Under the new system <ul>\n<li> the SSID is not broadcast, and is school-specific\n<li> the encryption/authentication is no longer WEP but WPA\n<li> the key for that also is school-specific\n<li> at least those two school-specific items are not totally arbitrary, but can be predicted from some generalizations of the school info  \n</ul>\n\nWe have a copy of a doc that was given to a school, about configuring different computers for the new wireless, complete with screenshots :) posted at http://tech.cuip.net/topics/wireless/New-CPS-wireless-config.doc (There is a password on that URL -- use the username and password that you used to sign on to this Reporting blog).   I will write to you in a separate message with what the SSID and WPA key ought to be -- also you should be able to get them from Ms. Banks.\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(236,854,'Mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2009-01-20 15:29:17','2009-01-20 20:29:17','(email and [edited] posted)\n\nHiya, Sasha,\n\nFrom following some of the email on the wireless card, I gather you did get registered with Cisco and got the Aironet driver.  \n\nOn the setup, please check at http://tech.cuip.net/topics/wireless/ (that\'s passworded, but you can user the same login name and password as for the reporting blog).  There are two different systems, one of which (the older) is uniform CPS-wide and the other (newer) has some school-specific elements.  In that folder at the above URL there are two documents: \n\nThe one called New-CPS-wireless-config.doc has pretty full documentation of the newer system, including screen shots.  It doesn\'t include the school-specific SSID and WPA key, but we can probably reconstruct that for you or obtain it from your techco.  The one called Old-CPS-wireless-as-Hex.txt is for the older, CPS-wide uniform system, and gives the key in hex in case you need it that way -- but I\'ll send the SSID and ASCII version of the key in direct email.  \n\nThanks, \n\n ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(237,860,'Mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2009-01-20 15:11:20','2009-01-20 20:11:20','(posted and mailed)\n\nHey, Tommy, thanks for keeping these reports so updated!\n\nThose printers you found in the storage room --- are they the photo-printers that are awaiting an order of USB cables?  If you have a chance, maybe you can pull one or two from the boxes and verify what they need.  (If it turned out they have Ethernet ports we\'d be in a better position to hasten them into use.)\n\nAlso on the relatively urgent list (unless someone gets there ahead of you!) was the matter of teachers having trouble with IMPACT on the newly-installed donated computers.  I copied you on a reply to Mrs. Banks.  She\'s pegging it as an OS problem, but I\'m hoping it\'s more like the version of IE -- which can be updated a bit more easily.  Could you please check into this when you have a chance?  Thanks!  \n\n(Mrs. Banks\'s email lists the teachers who have noted a problem; but you know where these computers went anyway.  Unfortunately, a real check of whether the IE upgrade solves the problem might require getting a teacher to log in to IMPACT and do a test drive.)\n\n  Later,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(238,872,'Mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2009-01-20 14:54:52','2009-01-20 19:54:52','(posted and mailed)\n\nHi, Chris,\n\nWelcome back for the decidedly WINTER quarter, and thanks for your reports.  \n\nI\'m interested in how this partition tool functions.  Will there be additional computers you would want to use it on?  Let me know and I\'ll look forward to coming by there to see how you do it!\n\nBTW, what are your hours this quarter for Wadsworth?  Please email me with them.  I\'d like to get these recorded for everyone just on principle, as well as immediate \"when can I figure on working with you there?\" calculations.\n\nAlso, pretty soon I want to get re-started on sorting out space on their fileserver(s) and getting at least a backup snapshot if not a regularly scheduled tape backup job.  If you\'re interested in getting in on some of that, and picking up how the CPS Active Directory system works, let me know.\n\nLater,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(239,879,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2009-01-27 16:17:29','2009-01-27 21:17:29','Hi, Charlie, thanks for participating in the Reporting Blog.  \n\nWe\'ve already been emailing pretty thoroughly about the Till server, I have nothing left to say about it here!\n\n   ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(240,883,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2009-01-27 16:00:45','2009-01-27 21:00:45','Hey, Tommy, thanks for your report &mdash; and thanks for reacting so promptly to take care of that IE/Gradebook issue when we forwarded the request.  It\'s a real relief that we know you can be counted on to deal with odd matters that come up like that!\n\nRuss has gotten pretty expert with the Gradebook teacher-interface and can help Mr. Lewis or others who run into some frustrating aspect of it.\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(241,915,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','128.135.76.114','2009-01-27 16:29:08','2009-01-27 21:29:08','(Posted and Mailed) \n\nHiya, Riley, thanks for your report.  \n\nI\'m glad to hear the inauguration viewing went okay.  The general picture we\'re getting is that the TV option worked fine, but the attempts to get streaming news video feeds over the Internet were very very congested at almost all schools. \n\nI also got drawn into the lab check business, for 206.  If you remember when you\'re sending notes on this sort of thing, or any tech status update, I\'d appreciate getting copied on it -- just if you remember.\n\nTill and just a couple other schools managed to put together the whole primary/general-election/inauguration journey in some form of project or sequence.  That video will be such an important part of that!\n\n  Thanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(242,1079,'Mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2009-04-21 15:32:08','2009-04-21 20:32:08','(posted and mailed)\n\nHi, Zhang,\n\nWe\'re always glad to see reports from the schools, whether or not approaching the 100% mark.  \n\n&gt;Other than that, I still need to get around to fixing a fan on a computer that “is taking off to the moon” according to the report. I &gt;suspect it is one of those super-high-temperature Pentium 4 computers with a dust clogged heatsink.\n\nHey, this really caught my eye because at another school we\'re seeing a rash of fan-gone-wild problems (on Dell GX-280s just past the lease and warranty periods).  Please let us know if the blowing-it-clean operation helps.\n\n  Thanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(243,1101,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','http://','75.2.240.122','2009-04-13 11:08:40','2009-04-13 16:08:40','(mail and post)\n\nThanks for the update Tommy&mdash;I know I\'m the one that\'s behind-hand in responses here....\n\nRuss will be clarifying the Asset Disposal routine with Ms Banks and Dr Conlan.  Thank you for marshalling all the equipment around and recording the inventories.  \n\nTomorrow (Tues 4/14) I\'m planning to come by Canter in the afternoon, overlapping your planned time there.  I\'m looking to backup the ersatz-server data to a portable harddrive.  But also maybe we can take a look at those old-model laptops, depending on what Russ and Ms. Banks have to say about them.  \n\nBy coincidence, I\'ve been playing with loading one of those CPS Dell-CFI image DVDs onto a USB pen drive and installing the OS (and full CPS image) from that... But so far, no joy.  Even with a computer that DOES boot from a USB pen drive but without the image-loading stuff.  Also we have an external USB-connected DVD/CD reader, and these computers don\'t boot from that, even though they will boot from the very same DVD in their DVD drive (and will boot from USB under some circumstances).  I think the portable reader doesn\'t serve up the boot track, or doesn\'t make the computer aware of it.  \n\nSo this may not be the way to go, but I\'ll bring the portable reader anyway.  We can also try the network install if there is a suitable OS disk.  It\'s not unlike the Ghost process, but may take some fiddling. \n\nCheers,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(244,1105,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','http://','75.2.240.122','2009-04-13 12:06:49','2009-04-13 17:06:49','Thanks, guys!  I\'m really pleased to hear you\'ve been able to do something about those library computers ... they have been a long-standing sore spot!',0,'1','','',0,2),(245,1107,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','http://','75.2.240.122','2009-04-13 11:51:44','2009-04-13 16:51:44','Hey, Bryan, thanks for the report and of course thanks for your work at the school.  It\'s good to have these instructions for the Flash problem ... am I right in reading this as a version down-step?  \n\nI\'m afraid I\'ve lost track of what sorts of backups are being implemented there.  I think I\'ve recently noted the backup-to-file of the ALSDATA area (and also Follett?) onto another part of the disk is still working.  (As is still needed for now, despite changing AR to the online version.)  But is there a backup of the overall server, onto tape or another computer?  Would you take a look f you have a chance, and see if it\'s a pretty satisfactory setup?\n\nShortly before CPS spring break, Mrs. Banks and Russ and I made some headway on the online AR switchover, both in managing the admin website (and getting a handle on the teacher and student experience), and in getting a start on prepping the desktop computers to use this. If nothing else comes up to do Tuesday and you want to try this out, you can take a look at the first few computers in row 3 in the lab.  Or if you\'ll be seeing Mrs. Banks on Friday and she thinks this is an appropriate thing to prioritize, she can show you a listing of steps she recorded n her notebook.  \n\n(But  essentially it\'s like this: Look in the server\'s \"Installers\" share, open the \"Renaissance Place\" folder.  Run the RenLearn Prnter Plugin install program.  Copy the URL shortcut to the All Users Desktop.  From Add/Remove Programs control Panel, remove the Accelerated Reader local program.   And of course be aware of freeze/thaw.)\n\n[email-only aside; ....]\n\nThanks much,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(246,1107,'Jackson','smitethis@gmail.com','','209.175.45.152','2009-04-17 10:14:08','2009-04-17 15:14:08','It\'s sort of irritating that HRW recommends you downgrade to Flash 9.  They should fix that on their end, and make their software compatible with Flash 10.',0,'1','','',0,0),(247,1107,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','http://','75.2.240.122','2009-04-18 17:06:20','2009-04-18 22:06:20','Heya, Jackson, thanks for building a thread.\n\nI confess I had no idea what HRW was when originally reading Duff\'s post -- though I would have guessed Human Rights Watch.  But altho they would have some classroom materials, I don\'t think those would be called textbooks.  So ... Holt Rinehart Winston?\n\n==mm',0,'1','','',0,2),(248,1126,'Mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2009-04-21 15:08:47','2009-04-21 20:08:47','(posted and mailed)\n\nThanks, Tommy.  \n\nRuss and I think maybe we\'re stymied on those Fujitsu laptops.  But if you have time, would you please see if there is anything helpful out on the web, maybe in a Fujitsu branded forum or general netbooks advice sites?  Altho the USB boot approach didn\'t help, maybe the USB would be a way to put in a BIOS update.\n\nAnd thanks for getting the disposal organized.\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(249,1133,'Mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2009-04-21 15:23:55','2009-04-21 20:23:55','(posted and mailed)\n\nHi, Chris,\n\nGosh, I hardly got to Wadsworth much last quarter!  Will try to do better for the rest of the year ... And in fact, if you remember would you please pass along to Ms. Warden the notion that we still could/should try to totally backup the functioning server and repartition it.  And on general principles we should be doing backups -- I think putting them onto the other server via the network was the best method of those we tried.  Let\'s look at that together soon, and whether or not we schedule the reformat you could maybe take on a routine precautionary backup.  \n\nAre those Dell laptops a recent donation?  I\'m more familiar with two carts of Dell laptops from \"official CPS\" sources, up in a third-floor classroom-serving-as-lab.  Are those a different batch?  In any event, do you happen to know if the cart-bound sets of laptops are being used (and are worth using)?\n\nThanks for keeping things so smooth, \n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(250,1181,'Jackson Wright','smitethis@gmail.com','','128.135.112.25','2009-05-08 14:51:59','2009-05-08 19:51:59','Cisco website has an awful way to get the driver.  Takes forever, is unnecessarily lengthy, but it works.',0,'1','','',0,0),(251,1181,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','75.2.242.205','2009-05-09 08:56:37','2009-05-09 13:56:37','Yes, basically swearing you\'re not going to export from the country this encryption technology.  What a crock!',0,'1','','',0,0),(252,1183,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.242.205','2009-05-09 09:06:57','2009-05-09 14:06:57','Okay, and is there really anything wrong with ketchup on a hot dog either?\n\n==mm\n\n(P.S. Hey if you\'re tired of country-and-western, try out that city-and-eastern music.)',0,'1','','',0,2),(253,1183,'russ','russ@cuip.net','','99.147.201.16','2009-09-24 17:13:04','2009-09-24 22:13:04','Just checking the threaded comment feature.',0,'1','','',0,0),(254,1183,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','75.2.242.95','2009-09-25 07:49:29','2009-09-25 12:49:29','The two plugins seem to work similarly.\nShould we be working out why the built-in feature isn\'t working the same?',0,'1','','',0,0),(255,1222,'Mitch','mmar@uchicago.edu','http://','75.2.250.250','2009-05-23 07:09:17','2009-05-23 12:09:17','(posted and mailed)\n\nThanks for reporting here, James!  However, have you been replaced by a lolcat or related sort of creature?  \n\nThe story of asset tags seems to go slightly differently at each school &mdash; but I thankfully have missed the full-bore in-person audit events. \n\n(additional bit in email copy only)',0,'1','','',0,2),(256,1269,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.242.95','2009-10-10 00:06:37','2009-10-10 05:06:37','Welcome back -- and you get the door prize for first report! \n\nYes, we\'re all tickled by ELMO.\nBut seriously, they\'re pretty cool.  We\'re at a school with some half-dozen or so, as part of classroom A/V systems including ceiling-mounted projectors.  It will be interesting to find how teachers make use of them.\n\nI\'m real glad you found the server.  As we discussed in person, it will be useful for various standard file-server purposes, plus cleaning up some login anomalies by virtue of the domain trust.  \n\nSo the SAM management console turned out to be a web site for her to sign in on!  Hunhh.  But anyway they installed the software clients on her machine, so she\'ll have the full suite.  (Do I have that right?)  Do you happen to know if they also left a copy of the updated version of the packaged software?  \n\nThanks again,\n\n  ==Mitch\n\n\nNow Playing: Multi-versions folder of \"Von der jugend\" and \"Von der schönheit\".',0,'1','','',0,2),(257,1274,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.242.95','2009-10-09 23:40:07','2009-10-10 04:40:07','Welcome back, Rafael!  It was nice bumping into you on campus.\n\nITS disabled ping for many contexts.  (As a security measure, it seemed to them.)  Usually you can ping a computer or printer in the same school.  But definitely not the building\'s main switch / router / gateway (the *.1 ip) ITSELF.  What will pass thru (within cps but across-school) is indeed odd, and I would *expect* ping to work but not sure.  RDC definitely works across schools; MS file sharing usually does not, but very oddly *did* work at the SOE once last year when I tried it. \n\n But the matter of what is \"same school\" or \"same building\" is, just as you suggest, something of a vexed question at South Sore. If you can document what you\'re finding, that would be excellent basis for a report/inquiry to ITS, via the school personnel.\n\nThanks, \n\n==mitch\n\nNow Playing: Other performers doing classic Dylan. (Robyn Hitchcock \"Visions of Johanna\")',0,'1','','',0,2),(258,1293,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.242.95','2009-10-26 17:15:57','2009-10-26 22:15:57','(posted and mailed)\n\nHiya, Cliff!\n\nThanks for all your good work at Fermi, and for getting going with this reporting for the new school year.\n\nAre you sure that was Ms. Freckleton, not her sister?  :-)\n\nOkay okay, getting serious with some tech advice.  Here\'s how to turn off that synchronization annoyance.  (This is in XP terms, I\'m not sure how much is the same or even available in W2K.) :\n\n\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  Probably need to log in as techco\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Open MyComputer, or any file-browse window.\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Under Tools menu, choose Folder Options\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In Folder Options panel, go to Offline Files tab\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Click Delete Files; in Confirm window, select \"Delete both the temporary offline versions and the versions that are always available offline\"; click OK.  Let it do the deletion.\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (Back in the Folder Options tab) Uncheck \"Enable Offline Files\". Click OK\n\nStrictly speaking, only the step of dis-enabling the Offline Files feature is all that\'s needed to stop the synch operations.  But it makes sense to do the deletion and reclaim any space devoted to these.  \n\nWe\'re all psyching up for the Fermi Marathon later this week.\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(259,1296,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.242.95','2009-10-25 11:29:22','2009-10-25 16:29:22','(post and mail)\n\nHey, Rafael -- Thanks for the consistent reporting!\n\nAs my Friday email indicated, Tyler and I stopped by SOE on Thursday.  (This quarter I\'m generally not working Fridays, else I would have tried to coincide with your time at the school and look at some of these things together.)  But Thursday evening I just conked out early, and didn\'t get to some emails until Friday morning &mdash;  too late, in the event, for that request about the virus on the teacher computer in 110 to reach you in time.  \n\nBut no matter &mdash; it wasn\'t urgent, just something we had deferred; and in any event, of course you should use your judgement and deal with what you\'re presented with on the scene. \n\nMy main point in that email was to check that we\'re all getting on the same page about the network in 110.  Whatever was going on previously with the DHCP/DNS configs, maybe your problem calls have prompted them to clear it up, or maybe it was spontaneous.  The only odd addresses we saw were the internal-generated 169.254.*.* IPs on the disconnected computers or those on the mis-plugged mini Linksys switch.   \n\nI think the best-in-the-circumstances plan for Choate\'s room (110) would be some chaining of a wired, Ethernet / CAT5 network.  Tyler and I got the south wall online with that approach.  For the west wall (where the windows are), I suppose there\'s the preliminary problem of getting the computers re-assembled and running on their own ... at the very least, this means locating the keyboards and mice.  But if that hurdle can be overcome, all the computers along that side could be plugged into the 16-port switch Mr. Choate has in his storage cabinet, and that in turn could get an uplink thru the Netgear switch already in place under the table by the south wall.  \n\nI can\'t envision a scheduling that would get the full-scale CUIP team all over there (especially when not in use by a class). But maybe Russ can figure this out, and consult with Mr. Bailey about the hardware.\n\n  Thanks again,\n\n   ==Mitch\n\nNow playing: \"The Naked Scientists: NewsFlash\" podcast',0,'1','','',0,2),(260,1299,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.242.95','2009-10-25 10:09:56','2009-10-25 15:09:56','(mailed and posted)\n\nHi, Zhang!\n\nWelcome back, it\'s real good to have you working with us at Ray again this year.\n\nI\'m glad you and Ms. Zivko are hitting it off well.  As you observe, having a teacher in that lab regularly changes the whole school\'s attitude toward how and why to use that lab, and how to treat it.  \n\nSorry to hear there was some miscommunication about the no-students day (professional development day) on Friday.  If we had given you enough warning to arrange a time/way to get in, it would have been a good opportunity for computer management in the classrooms.  (BTW, if you\'re not familiar with the entrance on the East side of the old building, by the parking lot, it\'s worth finding or having someone show you.  Sometimes that door is unlocked when the front is locked, and sometimes the office staff will respond to a buzz from there when they are not answering intercom calls from the front doors.)\n\nA little before UofC quarter started back, Ms. Zivko and I did some work on the INSTR home folders on Ray-srv01 and prep for individual student logins.  She is not planning to start the 5th- and 6th-graders on their own logins until closer to the end of the quarter or maybe January.  But sometime we should get together with you on monitoring free space and usage in the shared login space, plus getting backups going again.  \n\nAll the schools (dangerous generalization!) are moving towards flat-panel screens everywhere and ditching the clunky CRTs.  So there is little or no room for sending surplus CRTs elsewhere.  We think the right general strategy would be to hold onto a small handful of these for possible \"emergency\" replacements, but get rid of most of them via CPS asset-disposal.\n\nThanks again,\n\n  ==Mitch\n\n\nNow listening to: Fan podcasts for \"FlashForward\"',0,'1','','',0,2),(261,1307,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.242.95','2009-10-26 16:58:13','2009-10-26 21:58:13','(posted and mailed)\n\nHi, Brad,\n\nThanks for getting on board with the reporting system!\n\nIt\'s too bad you got started in the nightmare world of school printers :).  Well, that\'s the consequence of our general standpoint of \"deal with what you find, and what they let us know is important at that moment\".  In Monday\'s email, BTW, Tyler has sent a suggestion for Ms. Berry\'s printer and similar inkjets.  \n\nAlso we\'re probably going to salvage a harddrive from a non-functioning SX-280 we\'ve got in our office, to replace in that bad one in the main lab.\n\nI\'ll look forward to hearing how the new classroom \"centers\" setup gets going.\n\n  ==Mitch\n\n\n\nNow playing: \"All in the Mind\" podcast from Australian National Radio',0,'1','','',0,2),(262,1322,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.242.95','2009-10-31 09:35:39','2009-10-31 14:35:39','(posted and mailed)\n\nHi, Cliff,\n\nIt was good seeing you again at Fermi!  There\'s something funny that I don\'t want to commit to writing, but maybe remind me to tell you about it at the upcoming CUIP-NSP meeting.\n\nThe password-reset methods are both pretty usable, and each has some complementary advantages.  The local-computer security-box method is probably a bit quicker and asks for less info.  The http://password.cps.k12.il.us site has the additional feature of letting a teacher set a new password even when they don\'t remember their old one (based on ID questions with their birthdate and CPS personnel number, etc.). \n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(263,1324,'Sara','sara@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.94','2009-11-02 10:22:34','2009-11-02 15:22:34','Hi Greg!  Thanks for leaving a report!\n\nI didn\'t realize there was a secondary router that came with the palms.  Is the SSID something besides CPSWIRELESS?  If you haven\'t already talked to Ms. Walls about the WEP key, I\'d start there.  \n\nSara',0,'1','','',0,0),(264,1326,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','http://','75.2.242.95','2009-10-31 09:09:26','2009-10-31 14:09:26','(posted and emailed)\n\nHi, Rafael!\n\nThanks for taking care of of that virus check on Choate\'s teacher-desk computer.  \nWe haven\'t organized another larger-group visit to try to take care of the network for the west (windows) wall of that room &mdash; in part just not getting organized, but also because there\'s the impression those computers just don\'t have all hardware components.  Do you happen to know whether they do have approximately enough keyboards and mice squirreled away?  [sorry about that double-rodent imagery]  Also, do you get the impression that they did or did not keep the row of computers on the south wall working, and connected thru the two small Ethernet switches?\n\n<b> There\'s a trick to finding the SCHOOLNAME-ADM01 scanner/maintenance sites from a Mac.  (Well, I have that sort of backwards ... the trick is on the other side, as the Windows computers use a Microsoft cheat to find the ADM01  ... they\'re using WINS over and above regular DNS.)  You have to give a more fully-specified domain name as the URL.  I think it would be http://SHORE-ADM01.INSTR.CPS.K12.IL.US or maybe without the INSTR, or maybe with an additional prefix (do the machines there use something like shore.cps.k12.il.us?).  Anyway, the point is, it will work from a Mac if you give a FQDN.</b>\n\nThe current <i>real</i> \"architect\" password isn\'t given out to mere unofficial guest tinkers like us, only to actual FSS contractors, and changed monthly.  But if these Macs have a local-account \"architect\" that might be outside that system with a password that might have persisted from back at installation time, I suppose you\'ve already tried the semi-standard installation-time password for \"architect\". [Which I\'m including in the email copy of this message.]   And if these are really-old Macs that we might have dealt with a few years ago, many of them would have an \"admin\" account or a \"gerstein\" [former principal] account with a password I can\'t recall but perhaps others on the CUIP staff might; and on some we might have put in a backdoor privileged account called  \"cuip\" with passwords in the email copy of this message.\n\nThanks again!\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(265,1330,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2009-11-02 13:50:02','2009-11-02 18:50:02','(posted and mailed)\n\n\"I don\'t hate the printers, I don\'t hate the printers!\" \n\nBut actually I do.  And with mystery problems like those with Ms. Berry\'s printer, there may be no graceful solution &mdash; short of replacement, or advising the school to pay for professional/specialist printer repair.  \n\nGlad to hear that the work toward classroom computer \"centers\" on the Primary side of the school are advancing apace.  Your description of the issues sounds like exactly the sort of things we all were anticipating, so don\'t worry that there are are hurdles or minor delays.  Seems like you (and Reavis) are making good progress!\n\nI believe Tyler (and maybe Shaz as well) will be coming to Reavis this afternoon.\n\nThanks for your consistent reporting.\n\n   ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(266,1332,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2009-11-02 13:30:53','2009-11-02 18:30:53','Thanks again, Chris!  You did considerable good work for the school, and helped keep them welcoming of us.  This list of issues outstanding will be helpful for our continued tech support there.\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(267,1340,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','75.22.239.76','2009-11-12 11:12:17','2009-11-12 16:12:17','(mail and post)\n\nHi, Rafael,\n\nIt was good to see you at our CUIP/NSP meeting last week. Thanks for contributing so helpfully to the discussion!\n\nThe main immediate thing to say about those 5-digit unit numbers is, No, there is no reason to go around renaming all the already-installed computers.  \n\nThe naming scheme has been extended, rather than just replaced, and both kinds of school \"unit\" number can be used in that slot of the naming scheme.  As long as the computer is being handled correctly by ITS tools that check the name, we can consider that a satisfactory outcome.  Probably the most important consideration along those lines -- we need the current school-specific Techco password to be working. As long as that is okay, I wouldn\'t worry further about the names and new numbers.\n\n Thanks,\n\n  ==Mitch\n\n  ----\n\nAs background, these 5-digit numbers have been around for a long time, but weren\'t used in tech contexts.  Starting last year, they began creeping into tech contexts, in places where we would expect the more-familiar (to those involved with CPS tech)  4-digit Unit Numbers.:\n\n * Used in network names for new Tech-XL delivered/installed computers last year:\n\n * Now also used by the Rename wizard that comes from the Schoolname-ADM01 site Windows Maintenance Page\n\n * In INSTR Active Directory, used in the name of some Groups of school-based student and staff accounts\n\n  * In schools which received the E-Rate expansion of the wi-fi networking, if they did not retain the old CPS-wide SSID and WEP key, the new (WPA-encrypted) network SSID contans that 5-digit number\n\n  * The standalone release key for CPS Enterprise Deep Freeze typically was set up with a passwrd containing the 4-digit unit number.  At one school which has the updated Deep Freeze version on the installer program downloadable from the Schoolname-ADM01, when we re-installed DF on  a reimaged computer, the standalone DF release responded not to the password allthe other computers recognized, but to a version with the 5-digit number replacing the 4-digit unit number. \n\nI\'ve only seen speculation on why this has been changing.  One explanation is that the 5-digit numbers are a little better in themselves, as they are somewhat finer-grained and can distinguish different authorities for a given building.  Another is that (since these were originally the Oracle Financial school id\'s) the change of tech numbering is to facilitate folding together the financial tracking and technology tracking.',0,'1','','',0,0),(268,1351,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','75.22.239.76','2009-11-12 12:06:33','2009-11-12 17:06:33','(mail and post)\n\nHi, Brad,\n\nIt was good seeing you at our CUIP-NSP meeting last week.  Thanks for keeping up with this reporting so regularly!\n\nI hope I didn\'t overemphasize the compliance page (in that meeting or when we were working at Reavis). It\'s always nice to improve a school\'s ratings on the chart, but you don\'t want to let it become an obsession! :)\n\n  But as long as you\'re looking into the compliance, let me drop in some maybe-helpful hints:\n\n  *  Check the \"Last Seen\" and \"Last Scanned\" columns. If you\'ve corrected something but it doesn\'t seem in the table to be recognized as fixed, it may be that the ADM01 just hasn\'t re-checked it since you made the corrections.\n\n  *  And in fact, in the cell in the big table for that computer under the \"Last Scanned\" column, you can click on the link in the cell as a way of requesting the ADM01 to check that computer next time around.   The cell will turn yellow as a marker that this request is noted.  \n   *  See Rafael\'s report and my comment under it, http://reporting.cuip.net/2009/11/06/school-of-entrepreneurship-week-6-3/ , for some details about the 5-digit school numbers and their use in the computer names.  The key point is just that we can be satisfied with the naming as long as (a) it looks okay to us, and (b) the computer doesn\'t lose the correct school-specific techco password.\n\nThanks, Brad!\n\n ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(269,1356,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.239.76','2009-11-12 11:41:21','2009-11-12 16:41:21','(mail and post)\n\nHi, Tiffany,\n\nThanks for keeping up with your reporting so consistently, and for participating in our CUIP-NSP meeting last week.\n\nThat\'s interesting about the Convey and \"air slate\" software.  (Sara was telling us at our staff meeting about the erroneous URL that the original installer had employed.)   I\'m glad to hear you weren\'t misled by the quasi-paradoxical DeepFreeze management routine!  Anyway, Ms. Khan is one of these innovative and energetic teachers who is bound to do something interesting with these tools.\n\n Thanks,\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(270,1393,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2009-11-23 13:18:05','2009-11-23 18:18:05','(mailed and posted)\n\nHi, Tommy, \n\nThanks as always for your timely and clear reports!\n\nI\'ll look forward to seeing this new MacLab.  If the wireless is not working on some of them, CUIP could advance the school an ethernet switch and some cables to speed up that kind of setup (and they could still order their own and repay us from that when it comes in).   Let us know if it looks like that would be needed.\n\nDo you know what version of OS they are running?  CPS ITS doesn\'t officially support 9.  If they have OS X (or the hardware to support it -- basically an Intel processor and a DVD drive) ITS Help Desk can send the school both the standard OS upgrade disks from Apple, and CPS-specific disks (which work on any sub level of 10) to do things like install standard accounts.  Also the Canter-ADM01 site has a Macintosh Maintenance Tools page, akin to the Windows Maintenance Tools page we\'re all more familiar with.  (And indeed, I\'m not too sure what tools are on the Mac page.)  The network-naming pattern for Macs is like that for Windows, but uses I4260M... instead of I4260W... .  The Macs when they get on the network won\'t yet show up on the Compliance Page chart, but according to the Mac specialist who conducted a session for techcos at the recent CPS \"Tech Talk\", integrating Macs into the compliabce report is one of his goals for this year.\n\n Thanks again,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(271,1405,'MM','mitch@cuip.net','','128.135.76.114','2009-11-30 15:31:29','2009-11-30 20:31:29','(mail and post)\n\nHiya, Sasha,\n\nBTW, thanks for the link to that text-to-video software.  \n\nGlad to hear the SmartBoard just needed some software on the controlling computer.  That was my guess when I talked with Ms. Johnson about it at some point earlier in the quarter &mdash; good for you for actually taking care of it!\n\nI\'m inclined to defend putting nice big clear physical number tags on computers in a lab.  It makes it easy to make notes for oneself or others along the lines of \"Check the audio at seat #15\" ... at least it\'s easier than trying to do that with asset tags as the main ID, you can go right to the one intended.  \n\nYour point is well-taken that it would be good to integrate that with the online naming or description.  Because we are constrained to the CPS conventions for network naming of the computers, the Description field would be good for this.  You could extend that to include the station number, like \"Lab / Dell GX2xx / Seat 15\".  (I say \"Lab\" instead of \"206\" because we\'ve seen that the ones moved to the classrooms are still showing as 206 and messing with the printer script!)  These Description fields show up in the compliance page details chart, so a seat number would be a useful way of getting to the computer with the red splotch :) .\n\nThanks again,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(272,1412,'Sara','sara@cuip.net','','128.135.121.152','2009-12-07 11:53:31','2009-12-07 16:53:31','Sounds like a really good week!  On the Friday staff development day I had a conversation with the teachers about using the lab more and some had really good ideas for what they want to teach their students.  Mr. Taylor and I both reminded teachers that you are available to help in the lab.  Thanks for the good report!',0,'1','','',0,3),(273,1414,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','128.135.76.114','2009-12-07 13:58:21','2009-12-07 18:58:21','(posted and mailed)\n\nThanks again for helping out with the computer hauling on Friday!  \n\nAlso thanks for this report (and your consistency in using this medium).  I\'m unsure what state the Library is in.  Did you manage to restore connectivity for all or most of the computers via that ethernet-switch?  \n\nDo you need additional CAT5 cables or similar supplies/equipment?  Even though we can\'t undertake to mass-supply a lab or anything of that scope, CUIP can usually find up to four or five keyboards, mice, or Ethernet cables for particular situations at our schools.    Russ mentioned you asked about USB mice, before you made some available by swapping around -- that\'s good resourcefulness, but I\'m glad you also know that checking for a CUIP supply is an available option when within-school scrounging runs out.\n\nI\'m excited about your approach to the local printer scripts.  If you think any of those rooms might be in the overall Group Policy -defined \"location-based printing\" script, it might be prudent to remove or comment-out that room\'s section in the big script, so as to avoid interference with the settings you\'re giving the computers from the compact local scripts.',0,'1','','',0,0),(274,1420,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','128.135.76.114','2009-12-07 14:13:59','2009-12-07 19:13:59','(mailed and posted) \n\nThanks again for helping out with the computer hauling on Friday!\n\nBesides the possibility of outright installing the OS, the Apple system-install disks would be useful for utilities that could enable us to reset passwords for the existing installed OS.  (As you and I discussed.)  Russ will bring this up with Ms. Banks. \n\nAlso Shaz could loan his own copy of those system disks if need be -- he points out they are version- and sub-version specific for this purpose, so we\'d like to find out what level OS they have, like 10.3, 10.4, 10.5?  If you have a chance, would you please check that out and let us know?  [I\'m not sure where it\'s visible if you don\'t have a working login.  Anybody?] ',0,'1','','',0,0),(275,1440,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.234.153','2010-01-12 09:33:35','2010-01-12 14:33:35','(post and mail)\n\nHi Josh, thanks for checking in at the Reporting Blog!\n\nYeah, it\'s both peculiar and frustrating that the term \"wireless\" is being so widely and almost equally used for these two different systems.  \n\nFor that \"drive not found\" error you mention, try going into the boot-time BIOS Setup screen (I\'d call it \"the F2 screen\" but the trigger key might be something else) and look for the listing of the drives.  If this is traditional IDE / Parallel-ATA, it probably shows two groups of two drives.  The entry for the actual hard drive (probably Drive 0 in the Primary) and the one for the CDROM drive (probably Drive 0 of the Secondary) of course should be on.  But if there\'s one listed as \"AUTO\" here (or even with a particular spec) that doesn\'t correspond to an actual hardware component, it will spend some time looking for that at boot time and issue that error.  So what you want to do is switch the entry to \"NONE\" for any nonexistent drive, and it should stop that fruitless looking.\n\n  Later,\n\n  ==Mitch\n\n\n[Now Playing: Aretha Franklin singing \"Nessun Dorma\"!?] ',0,'1','','',0,2),(276,1488,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.234.153','2010-01-29 18:57:17','2010-01-29 23:57:17','Wow!  The video is a very cool treatment of the speech building on the \"word wall\" technique.',0,'1','','',0,2),(277,1490,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.234.153','2010-01-29 18:43:26','2010-01-29 23:43:26','Super!  That means BOTH labs will have been essentially replaced in the last year, after verrrry long stretches of just holding on.   Russ and  I will look forward to seeing it. -- Let us know if a few more hands would be needed for the move and setup.',0,'1','','',0,2),(278,1493,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.234.153','2010-01-29 18:36:32','2010-01-29 23:36:32','Sara mentioned your work on the website might be approaching that good stage.  Maybe this coming week we can take care of redirecting that standard URL.\n\nYeah, I might read the \"Nine Stories\" this weekend.',0,'1','','',0,2),(279,1575,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','128.135.76.114','2010-03-01 14:02:58','2010-03-01 19:02:58','(mail and post)\n\nHey Cliff, we noted the title you gave your report, but didn\'t see anything about the fracture!  Is that about you?  Are you okay??\n\nThanks for your work at the school and all the useful updates in your report.  \n\nThe situation with the circuit breakers is pretty odd and confusing.  There were two or three rows unpowered in the computer lab early this year, as you may recall, and I don\'t think even now the sockets along the back wall there are powered.  Ah well.  I hope it has worked out in the library.  \n\nPlease take care of yourself!\n\n  Regards,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(280,1578,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2010-03-01 14:39:03','2010-03-01 19:39:03','(post and mail)\n\nHi, Greg,\n\nThanks for your reports!  \n\nFor the redirection web page, first of all check which server you\'re on ... it would be the one with the local network name of \"priceweb\".  (Not the default fileserver, which I guess is \"price-srv01\".)  Then you want to look in the inetpubwwwroot folder.  I think we used default.htm but maybe it was default.html.  \n\nI hope things are going well with your treatments!\n\nBest regards,\n\n ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(281,1581,'Sara','sara@cuip.net','','128.135.194.113','2010-03-01 15:01:02','2010-03-01 20:01:02','Hi Josh-\n\nThanks for your report!  I agree with you about the new printers.  Do you know if they were able to order any more ink for them?  Ms. Davis was telling me that she was having a hard time finding cartridges a couple of weeks ago.',0,'1','','',0,3),(282,1586,'mitch','mitch@cuip.net','','75.22.204.3','2010-03-02 10:30:13','2010-03-02 15:30:13','(posted and mailed)\n\nHi, Max,\n\nThanks for your reports and your fine work at the school! \n\nI\'m glad to hear you\'ve been working with both the \"homemade\" Wii-remote IWB (Interactive White Board -- apparently the generic term the edu-tech community is settling on) and the Smart Board \"brand name\" IWB.  All of us CUIP staff would be interested in hearing any comparisons you\'ve noticed in how they get used, how teachers think about them, and so on.  \n\nGood catch on that laptop/projector settings business.  I wonder if this is the same teacher who was in the lab asking Ms. Zivko about projector bulbs when I was there at one point -- we were giving her generic answers about bulb life, but it\'s possible this was the same teacher and the actual issue was what you found on the computer, while we were all accepting the appearance that it was a projector problem.  \n\nThe laptops are coming from an initiative that was started over the summer.  The new CEO of CPS mandated more online assessment of student achievement and preparedness (you may have been hearing about the Scantron testing), and schools were surveyed for their technology resources in place, with some supplementary resources being provided to some schools ... and as we see, being rolled out on an extended schedule.   So these laptops must be made available for the online assessments.  But when not needed fr that, they can be used for other tech/edu purposes at the school -- so there are indeed some decisions for the Ray administration (and tech advisors) to make.\n\n  Thanks,\n\n   ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(283,1588,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2010-03-01 14:16:55','2010-03-01 19:16:55','Hi, Zhang,\n\nOff the record ... you know that word has probably circulated about new computers being ordered, so it\'s not surprising that certain teachers may want to jockey to receive upgrades by poor-mouthing their current equipment.  \n\nBTW, do you still hold with the idea that when moving the page file, it\'s important to retain a certain nominal amount on C:?  I always held to that but realized I didn\'t know a good reason and it might be just superstition.  \n\nSo next week the \"Huberman assessment laptops\" are expected ... we should be coming up with ideas to advise on location and deployment.  \n\n  Later, \n  \n  Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(284,1626,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','75.22.203.137','2010-03-20 17:18:47','2010-03-20 22:18:47','Do you love meeces to pieces?',0,'1','','',0,2),(285,1637,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.203.137','2010-03-18 10:42:21','2010-03-18 15:42:21','(post and mail versions differ)\n\nHi, Josh,\n\nThanks for your report!  \n\nI\'m not sure if you\'re working more this Finals Week, but in case you do plan to hit Fermi today let me get n a couple questions and suggestions about that Office 2007 installation. (And if not, could you please let Sara and me know the teacher or the location of the computer?)\n\nYou didn\'t mention if there was a concrete problem that interfered with that installation, or if you just decided to cancel upon noticing the statement that this is intended as an upgrade for installed Office 2003.     From discussion on first Class, it seems that techcos around CPS are by and large ignoring that upgrade-only requirement, and the ITS officials handling the communications about this have been waffling about whether this is a real condition to be obeyed or not.  In any case, it is not built into the installation software to check on installed versions, and this would not likely be the source of a actual error.  \nAn actual  error that has been seen says something about \"missing /adminfile\".  This seems to come up when the computers are not showing as fully remediated or maybe not in the asset database or something of the sort.  (Though it *may* have to do with seeking the older Office version.)\nOf course the install can fail for too little free space or other lacks.  An actual free-space problem would be presented as such, fairly early.  But note that this installer is terribly slow, and does not show anything happening in the progress bar for 10 or 15 minutes!  \nThe workaround for the \"missng /adminfile\" error is to use setup.exe instead of CPS-Full-Install-LK.exe.  (Using setup.exe BTW gives you the opportunity to be selective about what components to install, and to change the installation area -- like most installers.  The CPS-Full-Install-LK.exe is meant to be unattended.) The setup.exe will need a license key -- I\'m posting one version of this note, and won\'t post passwords or keys\n\nThe workaround (so to speak) for the ultraslow installation might be to go do something else for a while :).   But if it helps, yu can keep an eye on C:ProgramFilesMicrosoftOfficeOffice12 (or something like that) and notice that folders and files are being created, so you can know it\'s not actually stuck.  \n\nBTW, if you do go to Fermi today / this week remaining, take a look at the progress in the Library!\n\n  Thanks for a good quarter, and wishing you a very nice spring Break,\n\n   ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(286,1655,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2010-04-12 12:12:18','2010-04-12 17:12:18','Hi Colin,\n\nWell, I was mistaken in my confidence last week that the UofC donated computers would get delivered during that week.  We are now looking at a couple different plans for this week, and Shaz will be writing to you with details.  \n\nI\'m figuring to stop by Wadsworth tomorrow (Tuesday) and maybe we can look at some of the particular problems you mention in your report.  \n\n  Cheers,\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(287,1675,'Russ','russ@cuip.net','','128.135.199.160','2010-04-21 08:41:46','2010-04-21 13:41:46','i will send it in a separate e-mail.  thanks for your reporting.',0,'1','','',0,0),(288,1678,'Sara','sara@cuip.net','','64.150.16.3','2010-04-23 10:48:47','2010-04-23 15:48:47','Hi Cliff,\nThanks for the report!  I have also been talking to Mr. Hinton about using the computers for research.  I was planning on meeting with his class on Tuesday morning in the lab, but now that I know you are working on this also, I\'d like to talk with you about it and see if we can come up with something together before doing that.  I\'ll plan to meet you at the school next Thursday when you are there.',0,'1','','',0,3),(289,1682,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.203.137','2010-04-26 20:02:33','2010-04-27 01:02:33','(mailed and blogged)\n\nHi, Mehrdad,\n\nThanks for your reports.\n\nThat\'s a great idea, explicitly setting goals with Mr. Miller and Ms. Knox!  And it sounds like you\'ve come up with a good plan together.  Please let Russ and me know if there are obstacles you run into or other ways we can help.  \n\nI don\'t know if anyone has mentioned it to you, but the READ 180 program is being rolled out as a special initiative by the CPS Area 15 admins and has shown up in many of the CUIP schools.  We\'d be very interested in anything you might observe or hear about how the setup process went, what the participating teacher and students think of it, and so on.\n\nDo you know if the order you mentioned they were putting in for some Ethernet mini-switches (hubs) and so on, did go through and the equipment arrived okay?  If there are still connectivity issues in the 2nd floor lab that could be addressed by tossing in a little hub or two or some cables, CUIP is still ready to help on that front.   \n\n Cheers,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(290,1683,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.203.137','2010-04-26 15:27:16','2010-04-26 20:27:16','(mailed and blogged)\n\nHi, Rafael,\n\nThanks for your reports.\n\nDo you mean it does respond but to a different password, or that the regular one (which I think Russ sent you last week -- the one that references the name of another of the sub-schools) just doesn\'t work?  If the latter, one thing we\'ve seen at schools with a working Deep Freeze console is that a computer with a bad password or an outdated edition of DF Workstation software can be thawed from the console even without responding to the password.  (And then if possible we installed the current DF.)  I don\'t know if SOE has a working DF console or what computer it would be on, but maybe we can find out.  (Maybe Ms. Monroe would know, if originally DF was instituted as a lab management thing.)\n\nThanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(291,1686,'Sara','sara@cuip.net','','64.150.16.3','2010-04-27 09:34:00','2010-04-27 14:34:00','Hi Greg, Thanks for the report.  Sounds like they\'ve been keeping you pretty busy!  Thanks for the update on the DeepFreeze console.  I\'m going to try to install in on another computer this week while I\'m there.',0,'1','','',0,0),(292,1697,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.203.137','2010-04-28 09:25:05','2010-04-28 14:25:05','(blogged and mailed)\n\nHi, Ian -- Thanks for your report!  \n\nSara and I have also run into some overlapping set of issues related to those you identify here.  I\'ll plan to come by the school tomorrow (Thursday), and maybe we can talk about them more directly in person and try out some ideas. (Though I don\'t want to derail you from the Office rollout project.)  The wireless is a continuing story, to be sure!  However, wireless may not be a topic to bug the school administration about -- I know I\'ve done more than my share of nagging about the WAP in 217(?) -- big science room at the end of the sideways hallway -- that just seems not to be powered.\n\nFor the printers, I suspect a \"too many cooks\" effect.  Using the printers\' DNS-Hostnames instead of numerical IP addresses might be an answer, if that\'s what you had in mind -- of course that still won\'t help if the printers are holding onto conflicting static addresses, but if the Hostname idea works out we could put the printer in question back onto dynamic IP and CPS DHCP should take care of  conflicts.  [Though I did see a printer there which was set up to keep an address statically but the address was from the dynamic range -- probably the one it got when they plugged it in! Having a printer or computer holding statically to a dynamic-range address is really asking for trouble -- the DHCP doesn\'t know it\'s doing that and has no compunctions against issuing the IP to another device.]  \n\nDulles may be the first one of our schools to be implementing the MS Office 2007 rollout from CPS-ITS.  I\'ll be interested to see which method(s) you\'ve been using and how they compare for efficiency and ease of deployment.  And please remind me to leave a license key with you (shhhhh!) in case of issues with the \"/adminfle not found\" error.  \n\n  Cheers,\n\n   ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(293,1820,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2010-10-13 12:31:11','2010-10-13 17:31:11','(mailed and posted) \n\nHi, Rafael,\n\nThanks for filing your report -- and you were the first one to do so for the new school year.  \n\nIt\'s reassuring that we have you back to take care of so many of their issues at Entrepreneurship.  I\'m sure it\'s frustrating to see something that you\'ve set up previously get disassembled, only to get asked to re-do it.  Thanks for hanging in there.\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(294,1823,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2010-10-13 12:43:25','2010-10-13 17:43:25','(also mailed)\n\nHi, Tommy,\n\nThanks for filing your report -- and it\'s good to see you back with us for this new year!\nI\'m happy to hear you got Ms. Washington connected to the RISO -- both Russ and I were having trouble with that.  Maybe you can show me how it\'s done, if I come by Canter sometime when you\'re scheduled there.  [Maybe this afternoon actually, Wednesday.]  Also I\'d like to update you on some issues that have come up with the school fileserver, and if we can locate that portable hard drive maybe we can start a plan for backups.\n\n  Thanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(295,1834,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.23.156','2010-10-18 08:52:05','2010-10-18 13:52:05','(mailing and posting)\n\nHi, Tiffany,\n\nIt\'s real good to see you back with us this year!  Thanks for posting your report, and for getting so much done at Sexton.\n\nSome other schools with CPS wireless got other kinds of antenna -- probably because they changed some specs over time or maybe just because different contractors chose differently.  Anyway, some of  the newer  installations use card/antenna setups that seem to get better reception in more locations in the school.  OTOH, many of those styles involve a cord from the antenna that is hard-fastened to the card, and cannot easily be replaced as a separate part if pulled out.  So the twist-on antennas that Sexton has may have some countervailing advantages, in being fairly easily replaceable (and not terribly expensive, it turns out).  Of course, being easily twisted off is part of the reason they disappear -- so it\'s hard to say where the win is here.\n\nIt was interesting that you observed some accidental disconnection of antennas and maybe other attached parts, when students brush by in the computer rows.  We were prepared to attribute most of that to intentional activity by students, maybe malicious or maybe just bored fiddling around.  Thanks for the perspective with the reminder it can be accidental.\n\n  Thanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(296,1834,'Sara','sara@cuip.net','','64.150.17.6','2010-10-18 09:15:58','2010-10-18 14:15:58','Hi Tiffany- I was able to help Ms. Beal log into her computer this morning.  Sorry to hear you weren\'t feeling well.  Hope you\'re doing better!',0,'1','','',0,3),(297,1846,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.23.156','2010-10-22 12:01:31','2010-10-22 17:01:31','Thanks for your report, Jackson, and for the care you\'re taking at your school -- as usual!\n\nYou\'ve brought up a collection of interesting issues.  I think let\'s take this to email.',0,'1','','',0,2),(298,1850,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.23.156','2010-10-23 08:26:25','2010-10-23 13:26:25','Thanks, Rafael! The Wardell issue seems like a mystery in the making -- but unfortunately one of the not-too-interesting variety.  Is her computer on wired network or wireless?  I think you know where I\'m going with that....',0,'1','','',0,0),(299,1898,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2010-11-11 12:09:45','2010-11-11 18:09:45','Thanks for your reports, Katie, and the fine work you\'re doing at Dumas.  \n\nI\'m just running behind on commenting here !  -- and since I\'ve visited with you at the school subsequent to this report, I\'m not going to take up any details.  I\'ll just join with Sara\'s remarks that we\'re pleased with how you are combining your own initiatives with fitting-in with the school\'s tech context.\n\n ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(300,1865,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2010-11-01 15:40:47','2010-11-01 20:40:47','Hi, Ian, thanks for your report.\n\nThe notable thing about First Class at the moment is that it will be discontinued next spring!  So everybody is a bit leery about sinking much effort into working with it.  There used to be training sessions at the CPS tech training facility on using a set of advanced admin tools called the \"First Class TechCo Toolkit\" [originally open just to Tech Coordinators but then broadened].  There are no longer such trainings (for a system about to be abandoned), replaced by online help files.  The up side of that is that the help site is pretty good.  \n\nRuss was examining that site today, and I hope he can provide the URL again.  \n\nThe general case is that a non-privileged user can set up a list for herself, and it will be available to her thru her FC account on any computer, but she cannot set it up as a public or school-based resource for others to use directly.  \n\nHowever, someone who has been to the \"TechCo Toolkit Training\" and had their account marked for certain permissions, *can* make things like mailing lists that will become resources for others at the school.  You could ask around to see if Mr. Wood or somebody else has been thru that process.   Lacking that, the cumbersome process you describe may be the only one available.',0,'1','','',0,2),(301,1865,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2010-11-01 15:58:13','2010-11-01 20:58:13','The URL is https://fc.cps.edu/techcotraining/ \nDespite the https it doesn\'t require any sign-in\nThere are three screen-capture narrated animated lessons on mail lists.  \"Distributing Mail Lists\" is pretty much on point for what you describe Ms. Davis needing.\n\nHowever, bear in mind this will only work for a FC account with the necessary special permissions.  \nBack at https://fc.cps.edu/ they have discussion of a school techco doing this online training then acquiring the toolkit permissions.  I don\'t know if it would be worth it to Dulles to have Mr. Wood or somebody else invest time into it (for a system that won\'t last beyond this year) ... but possibly they do.  \n\n==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(302,1913,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2010-11-11 11:48:15','2010-11-11 17:48:15','Hi, Allan!  I\'m sorry we expended so much effort on hunting down the elusive Khelghati and Coleman :-) .   \n\nWe\'ve already exchanged some email on the broken SX280s.  Let\'s let that concern sit in the background for a while.  I ought to fess up on the one with the detached heatsink -- it was sort of working, with your predecessor opening it up and realigning the CPU and heatsink every week (apparently shaken loose by any physical jostling externally) -- then one time I tried to take care of that, and ended up snapping one side of the little springclip :( .\n\nGlad to hear that the unit in 107 could be gotten to work with just those couple parts.  \n\nPlease let us know if they tell you those laptop HDDs have come in.  Maybe Ms. Alvarado will find us a good working area for that project.\n\n  Thanks,\n   ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(303,1918,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2010-11-11 11:37:29','2010-11-11 17:37:29','Hey Erwin, I meant to say thanks for staying well beyond your scheduled time that day we were setting up blog accounts!  \n\nI\'m glad to hear the thaw/install/freeze cycle was working out okay for you.  Did Mr. Miller or Ms. Hollings mention anything about the Deep Freeze console?  I\'m not sure if it\'s been installed at Fiske; but sometimes it makes the install-cycle process a bit easier, in a lab context.',0,'1','','',0,2),(304,1926,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2010-11-11 11:31:48','2010-11-11 17:31:48','Thanks for taking care of that server backup.  I\'m trying not to think about it being needed for disaster-recovery!\n\nWe\'ve seen the mice-moved-around effect at several labs.  But usually that\'s in a context where there is a shortage or some are not working -- then when a student wants to go sit next to their buddy and that seat lacks a working mouse, they cavalierly unplug one from any other computer.  \n\nLooking forward to hearin g more about the iPad plans!\n\nThanks,\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(305,2034,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2010-12-09 11:13:21','2010-12-09 17:13:21','(posted and mailed)\n\nHi, Katie, thanks for your reports and your work at Dumas!\n\nIt\'s great when you students are so resourceful.  But we don\'t want to require that you use too much of your own computing and related resources.  In the email version of this comment I\'ll give you some details on a portable disk reader/burner that would be available to you at the school.  (Also, we may be able to provide the XP install disk instead.)\n\nHave a fine vacation!',0,'1','','',0,2),(306,2043,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.17.193','2011-01-05 10:30:40','2011-01-05 16:30:40','Thanks (quite belatedly!) for your report closing out the Autumn Quarter!\n\nI\'m sending you an email right now which mentions connecting with our new staff member for Robinson, and response to a couple of the tech items in your report just above -- which I\'m going to copy here, in case the general points are applicable to anybody else\'s school contexts.  \n\nSo I did stop by the school briefly on the last week of Autumn, a couple days after your visit with the items you mention.  \n\n  -- At that time, I installed some extra RAM in nine of the computers in the lab.  It seemed to help somewhat, though not spectacularly. These were given to us by a CPS department, and we are still working out doing a bulk purchase.  \n\n -- I stopped by 210 and did the INSTR join on one of Ms. Neely\'s computers that you mention.  You\'re right, the official script from the Harte-ADM01 wasn\'t working on this computer (for reasons I don\'t know).  So I bypassed the script and just joined the domain manually.  Terry or I will show you how that works sometime.  \n\n -- It sounds like a small Ethernet switch (or \"hub\" -- but not literally the older device actually called hub!) is indeed the right solution for connecting that additional computer in the office.  I\'m glad you suggested that to them.  FYI, CUIP usually has a few 5-port or 8-port ethernet 10/100 mini-switches on hand that we can put in a school when that seems the best way to quickly solve a connectivity problem.  But exactly as you did, we would always normally start by advising them to order one -- and offer to put in one of our spares only if looked like the ordering process would be slow or complicated in some way.  So we may go to that plan-B if they haven\'t dealt with ordering that yet.\n\nThanks again, and welcome back for Winter!',0,'1','','',0,2),(307,2050,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.27.242','2011-01-11 13:35:54','2011-01-11 19:35:54','Heya, Rafael, thanks for your report!  I\'m glad your were alert to the imminent failure of that ancient 3COM hub, and willing/able to haul it back to campus.  As described in earlier email, we swapped in a fan from yet another of those, but it was still sounding bad.  Russ took both that one and a 16-port switch we had around over to the school on Friday and decided to use that better but smaller one.  \n\nThanks again,\n\n ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(308,2055,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.27.242','2011-01-11 13:26:02','2011-01-11 19:26:02','(mailed and posted)\n\nHi, Katie, thanks for your report!\n\nIt\'s always problematic when school computers get on a non-CPS wireless network.  They will /seem/ to work, for many purposes (general Internet browsing), but will fail when trying to use CPS-internal services or sites, or connect to the school fileserver shares, and the like.  So it\'s real good that you are alert to this, and able to fix it up.  \n\nThose slow downloads for the updates, were those over wi-fi or the wired ethernet?  This is probably stating the obvious, but if there\'s any way to separately get the files themselves via a reasonably fast connection then load them on a removable storage for installation to other machines, that might speed the process.  OTOH I suspect there is something wrong with the network all over that building, and not just the wireless -- it\'s just too slow! -- and we ought to again discuss t with Mr. Tolbert and see if CPS would send somebody out. It might just be how the plugboard was configured up in the MDF room.\n\nHeadphones for the lab is a good idea; getting them would probably go through Ms. Johnson and Ms. Allen.  \n\nBTW, today Sara and maybe Shaz will be meeting with principal Ms. King to discuss Moodle as a platform for organizing Professional Development courses and materials at Dumas.  Are you familiar with Moodle?  You might let Sara know if you\'re familiar with it and want to be involved.  [Supposing that it gets adopted.] \n\nWelcome back and thanks again,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(309,2055,'Katie','kdschilling@gmail.com','','198.11.27.93','2011-01-14 12:18:47','2011-01-14 18:18:47','The downloads were over Wifi, though I did try a wired connection on one computer, and it behaved similarly to the wifi connected computers.  The files were downloading until the last 1% then the expected download time would shoot up to a couple hours...  I didn\'t quite know if I had a complete files or not.  That didn\'t seem to be the case as they wouldn\'t install on the computer that downloaded them.  However, I\'ll try the external storage method method next time.  :)\n\nI think the network is slow-- I\'ll talk to Mr. Tolbert/Ms. Johnson about it today and see if there is someone I/they can call at CPS IT.\n\nWe found some headphones!\n\nI\'ll see about Moodle-- I know of it, but I haven\'t ever used it extensively.\n\nThanks!\n\nKatie',0,'1','','',0,0),(310,2055,'Katie','kdschilling@gmail.com','','198.11.27.93','2011-01-14 12:18:48','2011-01-14 18:18:48','The downloads were over Wifi, though I did try a wired connection on one computer, and it behaved similarly to the wifi connected computers.  The files were downloading until the last 1% then the expected download time would shoot up to a couple hours...  I didn\'t quite know if I had a complete files or not.  That didn\'t seem to be the case as they wouldn\'t install on the computer that downloaded them.  However, I\'ll try the external storage method method next time.  :)\n\nI think the network is slow-- I\'ll talk to Mr. Tolbert/Ms. Johnson about it today and see if there is someone I/they can call at CPS IT.\n\nWe found some headphones!\n\nI\'ll see about Moodle-- I know of it, but I haven\'t ever used it extensively.\n\nThanks!\n\nKatie',0,'1','','',0,0),(311,2060,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.27.242','2011-01-11 13:53:08','2011-01-11 19:53:08','Hi, Sasha, thanks again for your flexibility about being moved between schools!\n\nWe might be able to help out with the low-RAM problem, to some extent.  We\'re contemplating making some bulk-pak purchase of DIMMs, in the manner of Ray, and making use of them as needed in schools that aren\'t planning on doing this themselves.  (Hmm, i\'m phrasing that with some incorrect implications -- please overlook!)\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(312,2065,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','128.135.76.114','2011-01-12 14:10:43','2011-01-12 20:10:43','(posted and mailed)\n\nHi, Allan\n\nFirst of all, not directly from this report but from our email earlier today -- I checked in the CUIP office and we do not have any more PCI internal card wireless adapters after all.  I think we have one given to another school that didn\'t get installed or used, and I may have one stashed in a different supplies bag.  Let Terry and me know if it would be worthwhile redirecting these over to Reavis (or maybe with the USB wifi adapters, which we do have a couple of) -- otherwise let\'s see if recommending one for them to purchase will work out.\n\nAnyway, thanks for your report at reporting.cuip.net!\n\n<blockquote>\n&gt;&gt;Sorry for the lateness of the report, as I fell ill after a busy Friday night and the report totally slipped my mind. In any case… </blockquote>\n\nNot to worry, the reminder message goes out on Fridays but we don\'t really have a deadline for these, and in practice don\'t look at and discuss them until our staff meeting the following week.  \n\n<blockquote>\n&gt;&gt;The rest of the day was just spent working on those laptops, and I’d say that about half of them are completely done now, with sound, graphics, and WiFi working just fine. I estimate that they’ll all be done by next week at the latest \n</blockquote>\n\nThat\'s very cool!\n\n<blockquote>\n&gt;&gt;Also I get the feeling that teachers don’t really know when I’m there at Reavis or how to contact me or something, because every time that I actually find out about tech problems is because a teacher somehow catches me walking from place to place or something. But that might just be me </blockquote>\n\nIn some schools all the tech support works by word-of-mouth and grabbing elbows in the hallway -- and sometimes that works out fine.  We also have schools where, to a greater or lesser extent, teachers write up their tech requests using a provided paper form and put these in a binder or folder in the school office, where the school techco and the CUIP team (and whoever else provides tech support) can pull out requests and work on them.  \n\nWe might try to get that going at Reavis (again).  Terry has been looking into how this works at some of our other schools and can work with you and the school personnel to implement it there. .\n\n... I wrote \"(again)\" because Reavis has had something like this going before, but not really the same system.  It was based on teachers emailing in their requests and those mails getting printed out and put in a book.  Actually, on your first day last fall I think I showed you that book and we talked about it with Ms. Alvarado.  But it would need to be re-started on a different basis, more direct-from-the-teachers.\n\n  Thanks again,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(313,2101,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.21.84.162','2011-01-21 16:03:01','2011-01-21 22:03:01','Error 666??  Oh but yes, printers are the work of the devil!',0,'1','','',0,0),(314,2101,'Jackson','smitethis@gmail.com','','64.150.17.4','2011-01-24 11:32:27','2011-01-24 17:32:27','But, can I get a printer? Haha.',0,'1','','',0,0),(315,2101,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','128.135.76.114','2011-01-24 13:23:02','2011-01-24 19:23:02','(Mail and post)\n\nSorry, a whole printer is beyond our capacity to help with. \nAlso sorry, I don\'t think we have that sort of power cord.  But I\'ll take a second look in the storeroom. \nBTW, you\'re welcome to come over to the CUIP office and rummage around in the storage room and equipment shelves.  Just let us know when.\n\nCould we help by planning a printer-sharing system with them?  This would mean a teacher willing to go to a neighbor room to pick up output.  Hmmm.  \n\nSo your help-with-blogging site will be used in a live presentation, not only self-study?  Very nice!',0,'1','','',0,0),(316,2110,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.197.220','2011-01-26 13:14:03','2011-01-26 19:14:03','(post and mail)  \n\nHi, Allan -- thanks for your reports and your fine work at Reavis.  I\'ll just comment on random items that rang a bell for me.\n\nRemediation scripts -- we have experienced split opinions on these.  Some people get good results.  For myself, I agree with your perspective and almost never use the single large (or \"monolithic\") scripts from the top of that Windows Maintenance Utilities page.\n\nOffice 2007 -- Right, i\'ve also encountered that \"third party items didn\'t install\" error, and worried that it meant something fatal for the overall installation.  But, as you say, it didn\'t seem to be a problem overall and the Office installation should be counted as working.\n\nWi-fi manufacturer\'s utility -- Yeah, generally it works better to use the built-in Windows manager for this. \n\nSpending hours on one not-all-that-signficant computer -- Oh, it happens to everybody.  Don\'t feel bad over it.  \n\nThanks again,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(317,2113,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.197.220','2011-01-26 12:55:41','2011-01-26 18:55:41','Hi, Erwin -- Thanks for your work and your reports!\n\nHave we not gotten a spare USB thumb drive to you yet?  It might help with those Office 2007 installs.',0,'1','','',0,0),(318,2136,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2011-01-31 14:42:46','2011-01-31 20:42:46','Hi, Allan, thanks for your report!\n\nI\'ll quote myself from another comment this week:\n<blockquote>\nWorking with individual teachers (or their computers :) to help with their random idiosyncratic tech issues is an entirely noble cause and a perfectly good use of some of your time!\n</blockquote>\n\nWe are still planning to buy some RAM for judicious use in the schools.  I\'m going to send you a share-invite to a spreadsheet on Google Docs -- if you have a chance when you are at Reavis please set up a little section for them and record for us some parameters like the \"PCxxxxx\" numbers from existing DIMMs on some sample computers on which an increment of RAM would make a performance difference.\n\n  Thanks,\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(319,2148,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2011-01-31 14:24:17','2011-01-31 20:24:17','Hi, Tiffany,\n\nThanks for your report.  \n\nThe \"techco must change password / is not allowed to change password\" paradox happens surprisingly commonly.  There are two approaches: 1) Plug it into the network with a hard-wire cable and leave it overnight so ITS will refresh it ... which is not so easy at your wireless school.  2) \"Break in\" via another account using the \"Norwegian Disk\" that Sara or I will show you.',0,'1','','',0,2),(320,2153,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','128.135.76.114','2011-01-31 13:49:32','2011-01-31 19:49:32','Working with individual teachers (or their computers :) to help with their random idiosyncratic tech issues is an entirely noble cause and a perfectly good use of some of your time!  (I may have to make that my commenting mantra for the week!)\n\nDo you suppose that peculiar folder-upload behavior you mention was because of having a Mac client talking to a Windows server?  Or is there something special about the way the program arranges its file storage?\n\nThe list of suggestions for good programs and sites sounds like a good idea.  We\'re always looking for ways of encouraging that and for sharing the ideas and resources.  Please remind me about the PD Wiki sometime.  Besides posting to a blog or wiki (or I suppose the official school website), for some things we have tried to get teachers participating in groups in Diigo that have been set up for this purpose.  (Watch for your invitation.)\n\nThanks,\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(321,2153,'Katie','kdschilling@gmail.com','','64.150.16.21','2011-02-04 13:47:28','2011-02-04 19:47:28','I looked into it more deeply, and it seems like that might be the issue.  I believe the way Mac writes files is different-- it goes and writes the folder location, but doesn\'t immediately write the contents, so if it is stopped early, then the folders show up with no contents.  This has come up again this week-- see my next post.\n\nDiigo looks interesting.  I\'m working on a list for the PD wiki so that I can link interested teachers.  Also, I;m thinking that Moodle could possibly be a platform for this type of sharing?\n\nSorry for the late response-- you know how school and snow get.  :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(322,2177,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2011-02-15 15:23:11','2011-02-15 21:23:11','(blogged and mailed)\n\nOh, Allen, you kids these days with your belief in irony!  How can I tell how far your tongue is in your cheek when you talk about that printer being stolen? Waittaminnit -- you said 102 -- so this wasn\'t the big Lexmark in 103?  Okay then, fine...\n\nI\'m glad you got a chance to work with Terry using the \"norwegian disk\" password-clearer.  Usually I just hit enter and accept the defaults for those many startup steps.  But one that you once in a while need to revise for it is the location of the system folder with the security files.  On a computer that was upgraded with a separate installation of the newer OS, there will be two system folders, like CWindows and C:WINNT, or C:Windows and D:Windows.  When actually booting, Windows should know which one to use.  But when the Norwegian Disk is accessing it to mess with the user login data, it may locate C:Windows and neglect D:Windows (say), which is the actual current OS.  If it doesn\'t list a local user you know has a login, or if you do the password clearing and it doesn\'t seem to take, maybe tell it to use D:Windows instead.  (Of course, that\'s Windows notation, and actually it would be written with stuff like  /disk0/Partition1/windows/ and so on.)  It helps if you know the history of that particular computer; or also just log on any way you can, and look around for remnants of that history, like a C:WINNT folder.  [That\'s what Windows 2000 liked to call it.] \n\nHow\'s the air temp in the lab these days?  I\'m starting to obsess about that.  \n\nThanks for a thorough and interesting report.\n\n   ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(323,2177,'Zhangallan','zhangallan@uchicago.edu','','10.150.8.233','2011-02-15 16:39:18','2011-02-15 22:39:18','Yeah it was just a printer of unknown size in 102. Thankfully. If it was the printer in 103, you can bet that I wouldn\'t be writing about it in a kind of humorous way!\n\nIn terms of the system folder, I didn\'t bother to check any alternatives, as I just assumed that the program was loading Windows correctly since it brought up the Administrator and other accounts. I know that there weren\'t any other partitions on the disc, as I went back and looked for those, but I didn\'t know that Windows would do something like install data in C:WINNT (plus this computer was XP so...). I\'ll be sure to look out for that next time!\n\nAnd the air temp in the lab varies from warm to blazing hot. I haven\'t encountered any other yellow lighting computers, but I keep on forgetting to remind people to not turn on the heater. I really need to harp on that more.',0,'1','','',0,72),(324,2179,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2011-02-15 15:42:30','2011-02-15 21:42:30','(blogged and mailed -- passwords etc restricted to email version)\n\nHiya, Rafael,\n\nThanks for your report!  \n\nI did see the odd formatting you mention, but it\'s gone now.\n\nThere has all along been weirdness at that school because of how they \"divorced\" the unified high school into the four small schools.  So when a computer doesn\'t respond to the SOE school-specific techco password, among the things to try [besides the CPS-wide universal just-installed one, which I assume you have and tried on this unit] would be the passwords for the other small schools and the long ago unified high school.  Russ and I will check in our old notes and try to find them to send you.  \n\nSort of the same thing applies to the Deep Freeze password, except that I seem to recall SOE never had its own and used one that seems to refer to the School of Technology.  Is that the one you use?  Is there a DF console around?  -- sometimes thawing a computer from the DF Console works even when direct keyboard entry doesn\'t. \n\nAnother approach to getting a privileged login [besides our coming up with the other-school passwords] would be to clear out one of those passwords with a password-breaking bootdisk.  One that CUIP is fond of we call \"the Norwegian disk\" -- see Allan\'s report from Reavis.  The site for that is http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ .  \n\nThanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(325,2190,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2011-02-15 14:54:00','2011-02-15 20:54:00','(mailed and blogged)\n\nHi, Katie,\n\nA lot of schools saw their compliance scores go down last week, apparently due to a change in what the ADM01 site is counting -- the SMS was not counting but was put back in (and the \"Install\" button doesn\'t work).  We sent around some email on it, sorry I didn\'t realize you were working on this.  Anyway, it was not Dumas in particular, and in a sense it\'s a false artefact anyway.  \n\nAs it happens, I talked briefly with Ms. Johnson at a multi-school meeting we had today, and we discussed this.  I\'m planning to visit at Dumas tomorrow (Wednesday) morning and look at various items on her tech-issues list.  If you\'re also there, let\'s take a look at some of the things you\'ve been working on too.  \n\n Thanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(326,2206,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2011-02-17 13:42:27','2011-02-17 19:42:27','Hey, Jackson, nice work!\n\nSo far, http://www.mollison.cps.k12.il.us and http://mollison.cps.k12.il.us seem to be working as CPS-only URLs.  I saw your (functional, attractive, simple) static page just fine from two schools this morning, but can\'t get it from UofC or at home.  \n\nHave a good time at Model U.N.!  Are you representing a particular country?\n\n  ==mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(327,2206,'Jackson','smitethis@gmail.com','','64.150.17.2','2011-02-23 12:19:01','2011-02-23 18:19:01','I was representing Dr. Pieter Koornhof, Minister of Cooperation and Development on the South African State Security Council of 1980.\n\nAs for the website, is there a way to make it accessible outside of the CPS network?',0,'1','','',0,0),(328,2206,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.31.22','2011-02-24 08:10:29','2011-02-24 14:10:29','(blogged and mailed)\n\n1980, uh-oh!\n\nFor the website, are you up for another go-around with the CPS Webhosting people you\'ve been dealing with?  Shaz and the CUIP staff have been talking it over a little, and there\'s no way of our telling whether that was their oversight or intentional so they can take a look before approving, or whatever.   \n\nYou\'re the one who has been dealing with them and could best estimate the best approach and likely reactions.  But my suggestion would be, don\'t overload it with all the possible guesses and your \"defense\" for each -- just present the basic problem [URL not available outside CPS] and ask if they can correct it.\n\nThanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(329,2228,'Sara','sara@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.235','2011-02-25 14:53:59','2011-02-25 20:53:59','Ms. Knox was telling me this past week that you are working with some students but she didn\'t give me the details about the project.  Sounds like a lot of fun!  I haven\'t ever used photovisi.com.  I\'ll have to check it out.',0,'1','','',0,0),(330,2234,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','128.135.76.114','2011-02-28 11:56:39','2011-02-28 17:56:39','Ever tap your fingers to count up in binary (to 1024)?  \n\nThanks for keeping the followups going on the CPS school web hosting!\n\nSorry to hear bad news about lab damage.',0,'1','','',0,0),(331,2236,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2011-02-28 11:46:45','2011-02-28 17:46:45','(blogged and mailed)\n\nHi, Rafael,\n\nThanks for your report.\n\nI don\'t think there\'s anything to be concerned about on that Office 2007 installation.  Typically the \"CPSFullInstallLK\" (approximate name) reports that missing file -- which is not so much something it needs or uses, as much as an indicator file marking that the ADM01 scanner considers this a properly-remediated CPS computer etc etc -- then if you use the familiar generic installer (supposing you can supply a license key -- please write to Russ and me if you can\'t) sometimes it gives that alert about some 3rd party items failing to install, but in fact the package as a whole seems to work fine.  As long as the product seems to be working, count it as a success.\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(332,2241,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2011-02-28 12:20:15','2011-02-28 18:20:15','(blogged and mailed)\n\nHi Erwin,\n\nThanks for your report.  It\'s good to hear that both you and Gracie are doing projects with the students, under the direction of Ms. Knox.\n\nI agree that if there are enough ports (also called jacks) on the wall for the computers you need to connect, it\'s of course best to put each computer plugged into one of those wall ports directly.    But if there\'s a shortage of ports on the wall, a little ethernet switch can help a lot!  If you run into a case where the switch / or hub seems essential to the plan, but it is broken, replacing the switch is certainly an option.  You can ask Mr. Miller if the school still has any spares, and if not then please bring it up with Sara and me and we can probably provide one from CUIP.  \n\nAlso -- if it\'s one of the older Linksys models that does not have auto-detect, but instead has two different places to plug in the cord for the uplink vs. another device port -- check that the cable going to the wall port is plugged into the uplink port on the hub and that there is not anything plugged into the switch\'s port that is an alternate to the uplink (shown by a raised line).  Ooofff, I am going on and on so wordy, but if it\'s that kind I hope you will see where the problem comes up.  \n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(333,2253,'mitch','mmarks@pobox.com','','75.21.88.125','2011-03-03 21:55:16','2011-03-04 03:55:16','(mailed and blogged)\n\nHi, Gracie, \n\nThanks for your report and your fine work at the school.  We\'re really pleased that Fiske has gotten a way to have both you and Erwin working on projects with students.  \n\nAnd thanks for sharing Photovisi, in all its pros and cons.  I used the sign-in you provide, and it took a moment to realize the \"gallery\" was just a random introductory selection, and not Fiske\'s own stored work.     Maybe I misunderstand ... is there really not a way to save work partly done, and resume later?  But it sounds like the whole photo opportunity was a good experience for the kids!\n\nI see you have fallen into the \"evil printers\" cult ... maybe we should have kept that one a secret :-)\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(334,2259,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.21.88.125','2011-03-03 07:50:47','2011-03-03 13:50:47','blogged and mailed)\n\nHi, Kelsey,\n\nThanks for your report, and for your fine work at Ray.\n\n<b>On the matter of the classroom computer with the very full C: drive,</b> we have put together an article with a few pieces of advice about this kind of case, at \n\nhttp://cuiptech.wikispaces.com/PC+maint+full+drive \n\nThe main points are to look at what\'s taking up the space, with a tool like Tree Space (copy cached at\n\nhttp://downloads.cuip.net/TREESIZE/TreeSizeSetup.exe\n\nAlso a good guess, especially as Ray is an INSTR school, is that it might be the Offline Files cache.  The http://cuiptech.wikispaces.com/PC+maint+full+drive  article goes into some detail on how to turn off that and clear the stored files. \n   If the text doesn\'t make it clear how to do that, if you\'re working next week I could look at that with you on Tuesday or Wednesday on site.\n\n<b>On the Kid Pix setup,</b> it happens that Ms. Zivko mailed about that yesterday. Here\'s all I came up with on that:\n\n<blockquote>  -- Kid Pix -- I also have the impression that Zhang put together something like a floppy diskette with a script or a registry-key file; we would run that after doing the main standard installation.  Maybe it was on a USB stick instead?  If you don\'t find that, the first thing to try would be replacing the KP.ini and similar settings files, in the installed program under C:ProgramFiles...   Replace with files copied from a computer where the program is working as desired.  If that doesn\'t work, we can look in the Registry, ugh. \n	It was a matter of telling it to use certain server paths instead of local locations, for the \"libraries\" but also and especially for the lists of Users that KP keeps on its own, and the reserved spaces it holds for those users.  And i think those settings were in one of those config text files.</blockquote>',0,'1','','',0,0),(335,2315,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','75.22.192.1','2011-03-17 09:39:06','2011-03-17 14:39:06','Hi, Peter,\n\nThanks for the interesting and useful tip!  Is that in a registry key specific to VLC, or some more-general Windows \"transfer mode\"?  \n\nThanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(336,2315,'cshin9','cshin9@uchicago.edu','','10.150.43.127','2011-03-18 13:58:30','2011-03-18 18:58:30','I believe it\'s a general setting on Windows. As an update, the same method did not work in the Latin room: the transfer mode isn\'t reverting back.',0,'1','','',0,73),(337,2315,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2011-03-21 11:26:36','2011-03-21 16:26:36','I was trying to work on a similar-sounding problem at another school, and opened regedit but didn\'t figure out anything good to find for -- I tried POI but even that was getting too many hits, all irrelevant (I think).  So I was hoping for a further clue.  \n\nThanks for the update on the situation!\n\nBTW, in that other case I ended up with a crazy workaround -- student computer #1 has the dvd drive but runs uneven, so we shared the drive and made it a MyNetworkPlaces item and desktop shortcut on student computer #2, and run VLC on #2!\n\nHave a good break!  (And thanks for providing your Spring work schedule.)',0,'1','','',336,2),(338,2315,'cshin9','cshin9@uchicago.edu','','128.135.147.222','2011-03-31 15:26:39','2011-03-31 20:26:39','I got the information from this site: http://winhlp.com/node/10#redut .',0,'1','','',0,73),(339,2382,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2011-04-11 13:08:55','2011-04-11 18:08:55','Hi, Erwin, \n\nAs Sara said in email, we\'ll take a look at that parent center computer after the Track E break.  \n\nWith the Audacity installations, is Mr. Miller having you include the separately-obtained plugin called LAME which enables exports in MP3 format?  Just curious.  \n\nI\'m looking forward to seeing some of those book report video!\n\nThanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(340,2429,'kdschill','kdschilling@gmail.com','','64.150.16.5','2011-04-29 13:35:29','2011-04-29 18:35:29','I\'m so sorry you had to deal with that incident!  We\'ve had similar issues with the computer lab here, but it never got that out of control.  It helped when we put signs on the door indicating the consequences for leaving the lab a mess and misbehaving-- does your lab have any signs like that?',0,'1','','',0,71),(341,2451,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.24.212','2011-05-01 22:18:08','2011-05-02 03:18:08','(Mailed and blogged)\n\nHi, Erwin.  As always, thanks for your reports!\n\nSorry if my email on Friday was unnecessarily belaboring the handling of power-on passwords.  Sometimes I like to write out some point in much more specificity than the correspondent at the moment needs, just in order to have a fully-worded notation I can post on our tech-wiki and in the future point someone to instead of writing out again.  \n\nSara and I are both eager to see some of these book reports!\n\nThanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(342,2455,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','75.22.24.212','2011-05-01 21:55:31','2011-05-02 02:55:31','(Blogged and mailed)\n\nHey,Bill, thanks for your reports!\n\nJust a couple minutes ago I continued the technical conversation about the Follett / Faircom library software, in direct email with you and Terry.  I hope you do get a chance to work on it Monday.  As you\'ve probably caught on to by now, the librarian there is also named Ms. Johnson but is not the same person as the tech coordinator Ms. Johnson you have been working with.  \n\nCheers,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,0),(343,2461,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','75.22.24.212','2011-05-01 21:36:04','2011-05-02 02:36:04','Hi, Kelsey, \n\nThanks for your reports. And in case nobody has mentioned it, thanks also for helping with the library project over break!',0,'1','','',0,0),(344,2508,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2011-05-16 12:31:30','2011-05-16 17:31:30','(blogged and mailed)\n\nHi, Clara,\n\nThe resources pages at http://robinson.cuipblogs.net are really nice!  Terry mentioned setting that as the home page for browsers on the lab computers.  Even if there isn\'t more extensive lab use this year, we still hear encouraging plans from Ms. Davis for later on. \n\nIf you end up happy with the Jeopardy template you found, let us know where it comes from -- this seems to be a truly evergreen exercise, and good new implementations are always of interest.  \n\nThanks for your report and your fine work at the school. \n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(345,2519,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2011-05-16 12:51:35','2011-05-16 17:51:35','(blogged and mailed) \n\nHi, Katie,\n\nI\'m happy to hear that the techco user/password worked for the Mac Deep Freeze.  Russ is already taking that up to another Tech Academy where they have DF all over for Windows but have been holding off on putting it on their many Macs.  \n\nThe hummingbird was indeed smile-worthy ... but my cats prefer to watch bird videos with audible tweeting!\n\nThanks,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(346,2521,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.76.114','2011-05-16 12:44:09','2011-05-16 17:44:09','(Blogged and mailed)\n\nHi, Tommy,\n\nThanks for the server info.   We\'re still thinking about how and when to bring it over and set it up. \n\nI recall the wireless getting switched at one time to the WPA keyed school-specific networking scheme that E-Rate put in many schools -- then reverting to CPSWIRELESS on WEP.  So possibly the funny business with the connections was due to a genuine outage on the CPSWIRELESS while other WAPs continued to work -- do you ever see other networks with CPS in the name?\n\nThanks again,\n\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','','',0,2),(347,2536,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.22.24.244','2011-05-20 10:56:33','2011-05-20 15:56:33','Thanks, Gracie!  \nThe previous week, the Engineer brought up his problem with Ms. Hollings in the lab, and we were able to help him view his pages/documents on a lab computer. Updating the Reader etc on his own computer is of course a better, more thorough & reliable solution.  BTW there was a bad link in some official email he had been sent, which was simply that, a bad link.  (Which however he was able to correct from knowledge of the project name being abbreviated n the URL, or something like that.)',0,'1','','',0,2),(348,2539,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','75.22.24.244','2011-05-20 10:39:57','2011-05-20 15:39:57','Thanks for pointing out the dot-backslash shortcut for those local logins on the Windows 7 machines.!  I\'ve jotted it into the Tech Notes section of the Messages page referenced in the weekly reporting reminder mail.',0,'1','','',0,0),(349,2641,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','128.135.4.238','2011-10-10 19:56:22','2011-10-10 19:56:22','Hi, Peter, \r\n\r\nThanks for your report.  Yours is the first of the new school year!  \r\n\r\nI\'m glad you\'ve started using the online teacher tech-help request form and our associated results spreadsheet.   The book of paper request forms is still in parallel use, but I think the practice of transcribing those into the online system is probably a good method -- it keeps the requests in one place.  BTW we can start hiding rows for completed tasks once everybody has had a chance to see them.  \r\n\r\nDo you think that system will extend well to another school, where we\'re hoping some of the CPS students in a technology club could also share in receiving the requests and learning to handle some of them?  \r\n\r\nI\'ll try to catch up with you this week to play with that wireless printer.  \r\n\r\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2','',0,2),(350,2655,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.21.84.187','2011-10-12 11:44:55','2011-10-12 16:44:55','(posting and mailing)\r\n\r\nHi, Allan,\r\n\r\nThanks for your report!   \r\n\r\nI\'m planning to stop by Reavis this afternoon (Wednesday), to check-in/catch-up with you and see if there\'s anything interesting we should look at together. \r\n\r\nIn case we don\'t get to it together today -- I also worked with that new teacher in 207, put the shared printer on one of the school desktops and got her personal laptop onto the school wi-fi.  Also couldn\'t add that printer to her laptop, and made the guess that joining INSTR would make the difference, but she declined doing that (maybe because of how I was explaining it).  I\'m glad you gave it a try.  One possible reason it wouldn\'t join INSTR might be if the network settings (particularly the DNS server) come from her Cricket 3G instead of the CPS wi-fi.  It might be worth trying with the Cricket disabled.  (Need to discuss with her how to turn it back on when taking it home.)  \r\n\r\nI know Terry has already been coordinating with you.  But I still wonder if we need to add some more kinds of report-sharing for this school and others where we have multiple people doing overlapping jobs.  If we have time, let me show you a system (not perfect, but interesting) that we use at a school where the teachers make their tech-help requests thru an online form, and we record our responses in the spreadsheet that is at the back end of that form.  ... Or maybe we just should have sent you our notes from the first couple weeks.   :-)  \r\n\r\nLater,\r\n\r\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.186 Safari/535.1','',0,2),(351,2651,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.21.84.187','2011-10-12 12:04:16','2011-10-12 17:04:16','(posted and mailed)\r\n\r\nHi, Tommy,\r\n\r\nThanks for your report!\r\n\r\nI think both Russ and I have mentioned that hardware switch for the wi-fi antennas on the laptops to Ms. Askuvich, but it seems it\'ll be a good idea to keep on reminding all the teachers and assts. who work with those. \r\n\r\nI don\'t know if Russ mentioned this yet, but late in the summer we hauled over a Dell server that had been used for one of our other projects, installed Server 2003 and got it set up as Canter-srv02.  The idea was to start using that for some or all of the INSTR home folder storage that currently goes on Canter-srv01 (the souped-up desktop model wth server software).  Or if not having t take over INSTR services, at least get the backups of SRV01 handled over the network to SRV02 instead of onto the USB drive as you have been doing it.  \r\n\r\nHOWEVER :-( last week when I went to look at it, SRV02 was off and didn\'t want to boot up.  So much for that idea -- and the idea that this hardware would be sturdier than the other.  I\'m looking for a good time to go by there and jiggle the cables some more for another try.  Feel free to go to the MDF and try it yourself too -- watch out for dripping condensate from the air conditioner (and tell Mr. Lewis if there is), and also check first which box the monitor is actually connected to!  Meanwhile, if and when you feel most other things are caught up, would you mind doing a backup of SRV01 to the portable hard drive? [If it\'s still on hand -- we didn\'t take it away did we?]  \r\n\r\nThanks!\r\n\r\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.186 Safari/535.1','',0,2),(352,2658,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','75.21.84.187','2011-10-16 18:10:52','2011-10-16 23:10:52','\"On Wednesday, Mitch came over to check up on me,\" \r\n\r\nWhoa, I think I put it instead as \"check IN WITH you\"  :-).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.186 Safari/535.1','',0,0),(353,2677,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','128.135.4.224','2011-10-31 11:58:24','2011-10-31 16:58:24','(mailed and partly posted)\r\n\r\nHi, Allan,\r\n\r\nThanks for the report!  \r\n\r\n[Schedule notes response in email only.]\r\n\r\nThis business about the BIOS date/time affecting the DF nightly updates and power-off system (resulting in that Maintenance Mode issue) is really useful to know.  I had assumed that the process was all the way controlled by signals from CPS ITS downtown (or the local ADM01).  But this point about it being the BIOS-CMOS settings -- which in the space of a week I\'ve learned about from 3 sources, including you and Terry -- really changes the picture of what to do about computers coming up in Maintenance Mode.   I\'ll plan to share a tech note on that with all our crew.\r\n\r\nSort of in connection with that, we\'ve been discussing getting hold of some of those \"coin cell\" batteries to replace the run-down ones.  The plan might include buying a few fresh ones.  But mostly we\'re thinking in terms of adding these to the (mostly mental) checklist of things to salvage out of a computer that\'s going into disposal.  ... Do I correctly gather from your report that you found enough of these in the broken / disused computers sitting around Reavis, or would you need more?\r\n\r\nThanks,\r\n\r\n  ==mitch',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.202 Safari/535.1','',0,0),(354,2677,'Allan','zhangallan@uchicago.edu','','205.208.116.110','2011-10-31 20:39:46','2011-11-01 01:39:46','I actually had Mrs. Alverado order some more of the coin cell batteries for the computers near the end of last year, but I never got around to actually replacing any of them. I would assume that there would be more in the broken down computers, but I didn\'t bother to check.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1','',0,0),(355,2668,'mitch','mitch@cuip.uchicago.edu','','75.21.90.227','2011-11-01 10:40:27','2011-11-01 15:40:27','Hi, Katie,\r\n\r\nSo, now that you\'ve checked-in here as an end-user, how do you like the functionality of the Reporting site?  Anything you find you\'re itching to change? Thanks again for the work you did this summer building it!  \r\n\r\nWe\'re having an ongoing conversation about the \"coin cell\" batteries that clip on the MB and keep the BIOS-CMOS data.  (Watch for some postings or emails about these and the role the system date may have in mistimed Maintenance Mode status.)  While you\'re salvaging parts from abandoned computers, you might want to add these batteries to the list of what\'s worth collecting. \r\n\r\nIf you get a chance, see if you can chat (I mean talk) with Russ about the iPads at Harte.  It\'s great that you\'ve been able to help the teachers with managing these.  We\'d also like to encourage them towards handling these in a more uniform way and less individually -- not that we have a specific plan, either!\r\n\r\nYou mention restarting the server.  Was it down, or was this more like a planned reboot?  And did you get to observe the RAID Controller low-level software?  I hope the disk we replaced is now in a green condition!\r\n\r\nThanks again,\r\n\r\n  ==Mitch',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2','',0,2),(356,2680,'Sara','sara@cuip.net','','128.135.4.227','2011-11-01 10:55:11','2011-11-01 15:55:11','Hi Erwin.  Thanks for all of your hard work at Fermi.  Those cabinets in the lab look so much better now that you have organized them.  Hope you\'re feeling better!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1','',0,3),(357,2687,'cshin9','cshin9@uchicago.edu','','64.150.16.9','2011-11-01 14:49:41','2011-11-01 19:49:41','Do you know if we can use the Mac Mr. Cusick has? He doesn\'t know the administrator password, but I want to see if it can be used.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1','',0,73),(358,2694,'mitch','mmarks4@gmail.com','','75.21.87.215','2011-11-07 15:25:48','2011-11-07 21:25:48','Wow, thanks for the Win7 shared-printer tech tip!  I wouldn\'t have known about the LOCAL port method.   \r\n\r\nIf Canter-SRV02 is still misbehaving, maybe we can check the logs and see if there was anything funny going on when it turned off.  Or at the least, find out what the time was -- that may help indirectly, e.g. if it\'s the CPS power-save treating it as a workstation instead of server.\r\n\r\nRuss told us that the iPad PD went well and you were a big help with that and subsequent iPad config work.  Thanks for being on the case!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2','',0,0),(359,2711,'mitch','mmarks@pobox.com','','75.21.91.140','2011-11-16 06:58:27','2011-11-16 12:58:27','Hi, Allan, \r\n\r\nAs always, thanks for your work at Reavis and your excellent clear reporting. \r\n\r\nI just wanted to put in a super-quick question/suggestion on the gibberish printer.  Is it hooked up to the computer by an old parallel cable?  If so, try replacing with USB.\r\n\r\nThanks,\r\n\r\n==Mitch',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2','',0,0),(360,2699,'mitch','mmarks@pobox.com','','75.21.91.140','2011-11-16 07:05:46','2011-11-16 13:05:46','Hi, Erwin,\r\n\r\nJust wanted to say thank you again for your flexibility and willingness to move between schools.   You were a major help at Fermi!  I know you\'ve started back at Fiske, and we\'re looking forward to a very fine year with them going forward.\r\n\r\nThanks,\r\n\r\n==Mitch',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2','',0,0);

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