That was indeed sad news about Mr. Ellington.

Russ described for our staff meeting the new computers given to the library and the consequent move of the Macs and some Dells out to classrooms.  We have a few spare on-the-cheap USB keyboards; check with Russ about getting a couple from the CUIP storeroom.  Also available are standard powercords.

Also we can try the "Norwegian Disk" on the computer with no admin login.    (Did you try the temp/preliminary password for techco?  And check the computer's network name -- if the unit number part of that is for one of the other South Shore constituent schools, it may have gotten their school-specific techco password.)

On your question (2), you're welcome to use any of the images on that portable HD; inclkuding from other school folders, but I suspect there may not be any suitable for that model, and some may lack the Office software anyway.  There may be one on the library server, too.   But if you do find something promising and Ghost from it, please remember to rename the computer right away.  

I meant to comment last week on printer addressing.  The HP tool is pretty nifty!  As you probably are already taking into consideration, the point is not just to <i>find out</i> the address it has picked up (and use it for connecting computers to that printer), but to include in there a step of deciding whether the address is suitable and if not, changing it.  (That's starting to take on the cadence of the "Serenity Prayer"!)  The main issue of suitability is that it should be outside the range of dynamic addresses given out by CPS's DHCP servers, yet be in the range of the school's IP addresses.  The static addresses excluded from DHCP include an upper range of the fourth byte, 231 or above.  Also the printer should be set to use manual addressing, not DHCP or BOOTP.  

  Thanks,

  ==mitch