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<strong>Your Name:</strong> Zhang Zhang

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2009/03/09

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

<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 3

<strong>The School:</strong> Ray School

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general

<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>

With the schools closed on Monday, I worked for Friday only this week.  The highlight of this week was getting DVD playback working on a computer/projector cart. After going though software configuration and audio/display configuration, I eventually narrowed the problem to the IDE controller driver, which was throttling the DVD drive (perhaps because it was assuming that both the HD and DVD drive was on the same IDE channel). After reinstalling the IDE controllers, everything returned to perfect working order.

For the computer lab, I set the printer to ignore blank pages, which will hopefully solve the problem of depleting 1/3 of the paper by printing them. Several of the computer lab computers (older IBM Netvista machines) have begun to show problems with disk usage again. For now, I'm moving the pagefiles to the D: partition to free up some space, but the problem remains that these computers have a terrible partition scheme, with a full C: partition of 8GB, and a completely unused D: partition of 25GB.</div>