<strong>Your Name: </strong>Cliff Taylor and Dana Lutenegger

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2009/01/23

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> Wednesday, Friday

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

<strong>The School: </strong>Enrico Fermi
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<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Computer Maintenance

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

This wek at Fermi, we completed a fairly large task. That is we surveyed all the computers in the computer lab and found which were working correctly and which were not.  We found 5 computers that would not even turn on and were therefor unusable.  On the ones that did start, we ran a CHKDSK when necessary and then defragemented the hard drive.  This was a project left over from last week but it is now finished.

Aside from that, there were a few minor problems here and the such as unplugged keyboards or ethernet cables that we had to plug back in.

Mr. Taylor's  new laptop would not work in AOL mail.  Everytime you tried to access it, the browser would freeze and not allow you to do anything.  After exhausting all the downloads such as flash, java, etc, we finally just downloaded Firefox...and what do you know, it worked just fine.  I gues Explorer is just terrible and Firefox rocks.

Most of our time Friday was spent transferring files from Mr. Taylor's old computer to his new one. The external hard drive we had was not compatible with his old laptop so we then decided to e-mail the files.  There were way too many so we decided to email zipped versions of them.  However, some of the zipped files exceeded the 20 MB limit on gmail for attachments.  We then used an online storage site and eventually got that taken care of.