Bryan Duff
Bret Harte
Wednesday: 12-1
Friday: 12:30-3:30
Tech General

I started to clean out the MDF in hopes of getting organized.  I kind of realized that it's impossible to move those servers up on to desks with unplugging them.  So, they remain on the floor, but it seems like this an okay place for them, just not ideal. 

I also worked on straightening up the computer lab computers (making sure desktop backgrounds were okay, mice worked, things were plugged in).  

I'm not sure I'll be in as much next week due to midterms.  If so, the priorities are to finally reimage that machine in 110 and the machine in the lab.

(The report from here on out is almost identical to the email I sent you Friday afternoon, Mitch)

So, the computer that was not fixed in the lab was neglected 
because it's warranty had expired.  I wish I would've realized this ahead of time, but I wasn't.  As Mitch and Jon
noticed, this computer kind of starts up, so re-imaging 
might actually work.  But, as for any parts or services, we 
can no longer ask Dell about it.

This whole warranty-expiring thing is bad news, I fear.  
There are a lot of machines that will likely be affected 
seeing as how many motherboard issues we've seen with these 
Dell models.

Also, there's a machine in room 110 that still needs re-
imaged.  Luckily this teacher has been exceptionally paitent 
with me.  I contaced Dell today, and they agreed to send the 
school some recovery disks...whenver that might be.

As for the computer lab, Ms. Evans seems to agree (but I'm 
not sure yet) that maybe the students ought to use a stu-
3780 login.  I anticipated this happening, and have reserved 
the stu-3780-2 for the lab.  I was thinking we might want to 
phase this in by telling teachers that if they want to use 
AR programs they should expect to use these network logins.  
Ms. Evans, though apparently on board with this idea, let me 
know today that she felt like most students were having 
troubling typing in the new password.  I wasn't able to really get her to say anything conclusive about this.  I'm thinking we just go ahead with it, slowly.
