<strong>Your Name:</strong>Tommy Butterfoss

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2010/12/10

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T Θ

<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 6

<strong>The School: </strong>Canter

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Helping Teacher

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Due to Thanksgiving and other things, it has been a while since I did one of these. In my last weeks at Canter before going abroad next quarter, I checked that all the lab computers had working mice, keyboards, and internet, per Ms. Banks' instructions. There were a surprising number of things unplugged, including ethernet cables- I suspect middle schooler shenanigans. Relatively harmless, but still rather annoying. The lab is now up to snuff, however.

I spent a lot of time with printers- I fixed Ms. Washington's and unjammed the lab printer a few times. In the course of clearing one of those jams, I printed off the print settings/diagnostic sheet, which informed me that the printer has jammed 464 times in its career- sounds about right to me. I also did the December server backup- the external hard drive with the back ups is in the lab closet.

I also evaluated the RAM situation in the lab for Mitch- I've copied my response to him below.

"here's some more detail on Canter's lab situation (roughly listed from best to worst)
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	<li>11  Dell Optiplex 320s, 480MB of RAM, running windows XP. I don't think  these need an upgrade of RAM, although a few are a bit pokey.</li>
	<li>3 Dell Optiplex GX270s, 512MB of RAM, running XP. These look a  little beat up, but they run pretty well. RAM is not going to help them  much, in any case.</li>
	<li>2 Compaq Evo W600s, running W2K. They say  1,310,124 KB of RAM, which if I remember my high school comp sci classes  correctly is about 1.2GB--not sure I believe that, but they run  decently well. Maybe worth cracking them open to figure out what the  real RAM situation is (and installing XP if they really have that much  memory).</li>
	<li>8 Compaq Deskpro ENs, various amounts of RAM, running W2K. Two of  these have 512MB, and two have 384MB- these run alright, considering  they're a decade old. 3 have 256MB and are rather slow (one  frustratingly so). 1 has 128MB and is essentially unusable. These are  the ones I added to the spreadsheet as they would clearly benefit from  some RAM. I don't know if it would really be worth the cost, however. I  don't know how much longer Canter plans on using computers running W2K."</li>
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