Bryan Duff
Bret Harte
Wednesday: 12:15-1:15; Friday: 12:30-3:30
Tech General / Deep Freeze Installation

I was able to finish installing the DeepFreeze on all the
computers in the lab.  I know Shaz mentioned sending someone
out Monday to finish up, but I think I'm pretty much done. 
Everything seems to be in order as far as Mitch's guidelines
showed.  The exception being I did not follow through on Part
C (included below) on the machines in rows 3, 2, or 1.  I
figured this could be done later.

PART C:
1. login, notice the polar bear icon in the system tray area.
 It shows DF has been installed, and also whether the computer
is currently in a frozen or thawed state.
 2.  Look at My computer, notice new drive letter T: and
label Thaw Space.  Try making a new folder and/or files.
 3.  To try the  non-console-based DF management for a client
computer, hold Shift and double-click on the polar bear icon.  
  4.  A password window should come up.  Enter the password
that was sent in the official email. (It was cps3780harte).
  5. Notice the options for rebooting thawed, frozen, or
temporarily thawed.  We'll go over them.
  6.  When you need to install software or adjust settings,
the cycle is:
                -- Open the local controls, as above.
                -- set to reboot thawed.
                -- reboot.
                -- Login as techco or the user you need to be.
  Check the icon to see the station is thawed.
                -- Perform the software installation or
settings changes.
                -- Open the Df local control, as above.
                -- Set to reboot frozen.
                -- Reboot

I received the Dell factory re-install disks today from Ms.
Evans.  I'll be attempting to finally finish re-imaging the
machine in Room 110 on Wednesday.  I'll also be able to do so more easily in the future to other machines....nothing like Sanjaya's ghosting system, though.

All in all, today was a very productive day.  Thanks to Mitch
and Shaz for helping to complete another goal for this
quarter.  Not to look ahead too much, but here are a few more
projects that we ought to finish by the end of the year:

1. New Lab Printer (several classrooms need new printers, too;
but they need to communicate with Ms. Parks)
2. Cleaning the MDF somewhat - This could be tricky; not just
to get rid of the trash, but we might want to put the servers
up on tables instead of on the floor.  This would involve
unplugging everything.  It might not be necessary.
3. A classroom project for the EXPO (Shaz)

Despite this list, we've really made a lot of progress this
quarter! Thanks again and have a good weekend!