<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman
<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/5/16
Reporting on most recent week
<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: T, Th
<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5.4
<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle
<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General
<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>: Let's see if I can produce a shorter report!

Tuesday I gave Mr. Fishbein his new computer, consolidated the husks and the graphics cards, and did some testing to see what worked (not many of the spare graphics card did, bizarrely enough).

Thursday was more of the same – I've started cleaning up the computer room, and consolidating what does and doesn't work. I won't bore you with the details, and will tell you everything when I'm finished. By the time I'm finished, I hope the computer lab area will be clean.

Also on Thursday, I put the new toner into the printer, and felt pretty cool about myself after I improvised a solution to fix a computer with only some Carmex lip balm (the power button on the case kept getting stuck, and this was the only greasy substance around the school that I could find).

I suspect the work of consolidating everything and fixing random small problems will occupy me until Canter is finished its school year.
<strong>Several Questions:</strong>

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<em> <ul>
	<li>Do we have an HD enclosure from which I can recover data from the CPUs that we're disposing of?</li>
	<li>There's a computer picked up by the ADM website that's on the Shoesmith domain and still connected. Do you think it would be in the MDF room?</li>
	<li>Russ, the mouse wasn't working on the very first computer as you enter the room. There was a Windows Vista sticker over the optical sensor. Was that intentional on your part?</li>
	<li>Any suggestions for <a href="http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/05/09/week-6-canter-3/">fixing Ms. Harris' printer</a>? It's a HP psc 1315xi.</li>
	<li>Ms. Spector seems to have found it easier to maintain her blog on a site called EduBlogs. Is there a CUIP position on this?</li>
	<li>The <a href="http://ots.cps.k12.il.us/disposalservices/assetdisposalsurvey.aspx">form for asset disposal</a> (available only in the CPS network) requires several pieces of information I don't have, plus it doesn't seem to require anything about writing down the tags for assets to be disposed of. As far as I can tell, one just needs to specify a location where stuff is to be picked up from. How should I proceed on this?</li></ul></em>

<strong>Remaining Issues:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Network card in 207</li>
<li>Ms. Harris' printer</li>
<li>RAM Redistribution and Mr. Fishbein's computer (which had a gm.dls error I've seen before)</li>
<li>Addressing the old/broken computers in the lab</li>
<li>Locating spare peripherals around the building</li>
<li>Ms. Spector's blog</li>
<li>Seeing how Ms. Milton is doing with her blog</li>
<li>Sending Ms. LaCour directions for the financial-record-keeping software.</li>
<li>Making sure the descriptions on computers C3, E1, and E5 are okay.</li>
<li>Finding display drivers for E5/others.</li>
<li>Possible memory issues in room 106</li>
<li>Editing the theme for this site. That may not be something I can do too well at Canter, or at least not without my laptop.</li></ul>

<strong>"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
-Clare Booth Luce</strong>