Hi, Ben!

The 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.

(I don't know if it's in Jackson's report, but he unearthed a <i>95</i> box at Mollison this week!)

Yes, 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 ...

In 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. 

Either 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.

It 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.

 Thanks,

  ==mitch