Your Name:

Today’s Date: 2008/11/22

Day(s) worked or described: M T Θ (erase the letters for days you weren’t there)

Total hours for week: I think 8 or 10.

The School:  Canter.

Kind of Work: Tech General.

Main Report or Narrative: [the first paragraph of these were essentially copied into an email to mitch + russ + shaz.]

I'm continuing to install W2K on all of those donated computers with Tommy --- but it seems that none of the compaq computers [I think it's Compaq Deskpro EN or EL or something.] will cooperate.  Every time I start them, I get a non-system disk error.  There's no disk inside, and I can't seem to get the computer to boot from the CDRom first.  The rest of the computers are fine and in working order --- just a few more to complete --- and I've left notes on about how fast each one was and how much memory  space they have.

In 103, there is a little girl who has a Neo AlphaSmart typing thing.  The teacher wants me to hook it up to the printer, minus a computer, and I don't know exactly how that's going to work.  I haven't been able to be there at the same time as the student yet, but I'm going to try Monday.

In the main office, they have many and varied problems with their back computer and the printer it should theoretically print to.  I've fixed it a few times, but the latest time I was unable to get an excel spreadsheet which is produced off of some program on Outlook to print.  The secretary said that they would call the tech guys that do the program and see what they could do --- I'll do a status report monday.

As a sort of funny story, the tech people at MYOB [an accounting program I guess.] were called to transfer files from one computer in the office to the other.  Apparently, they had been on the phone for about two hours with them and nothing seemed to work.  So, the secretary asked if we could just use a removable drive to transfer the files, and I said, "yeah, probably."  So I did it.  After that, the tech person on the phone [who was using remote desktop stuff to manipulate the office pc.] kept trying to unzip and open the files in MYOB, but it wouldn't work!  The problem?  She unzipped it and put the files into a folder called MYOB, and then put that folder into the MYOB folder.  So when they tried to open it from the top MYOB folder, it didn't work.  She tried unzipping it again, and put a NEW Myob folder into the BOTTOM myob folder.  She did this a few times, and after the third time or so of explaining what was wrong to her, I asked if I could use the computer and simply moved the file so that they could open it from the default directory.  the tech person on the phone then told us that we couldn't open the file before because our windows wasn't updated enough (?), and now it was for some reason.  Ugh!  Some tech people.