Your Name:  James Salvatore

Today’s Date: 2008/02/08

Day(s) worked or described: T Θ x2

Total hours for week: I think 8.

The School: Dumas.

Kind of Work: Tech general.

Main Report or Narrative: 

I'm new to Dumas, so I spent the first day sort of hanging around and getting to know Mr. Tolbert + the computer situation there.  I primarily work in Mr. Tolbert's classroom fixing up the 31 computers that are in there.  

The first Tuesday, I got a feel for each computer.  Dumas doesn't have deepfreeze, so every desktop is sort of like a snowflake -- no two are the same.  One is even like, the picture of a dog or something.  It doesn't have the CPS logo background, so I kept it the picture of a dog.  It's not hurting anyone to have a dog background.

I think Thursday, Mitch came in.  Or it might have been one of the Tuesdays.  But either way, we began to work on the printing issue which, since then, hasn't been touched on at all.  Mr. Tolbert wanted to do a schoolwide instra-login deal and, after that, do a tcpip printing deal -- and he also wanted to put DeepFreeze on all of the computers, which is kind of a bittersweet project.  I can't do any of these things until Mr. Tolbert has started them, which hasn't happened yet -- so I'm just sort of waiting for Go-time.

Tuesday and Thursday, I went around to each individual computer and:

- Scandisk'd them.  An average of around 1.5 - 2 gigs was saved.  These computers have not been scanned in a while.

- Defragged them.  All but a few of them said, "You should defrag this computer!", so I did.

- Got rid of unnecessary desktop items (32 links to google.com, a link to a little flash video game about like, a horse jumping over things or something, etc., etc.) and put My Documents, My Computer, Recycle Bin, and Internet Explorer on the desktop for easy usin'.  

- Downloaded Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader for every computer.  Individually.  Ugh.  

- Mr. Tolbert expressed interest in a virus scanning program, so I got lavasoft's ad-aware because I remember using that at Till as a virus scanning program.  I put this on a few machines and scanned them, but this will be what I start up next tuesday if Mr. Tolbert has nothing else for me to do.

All in all, I'm just tweaking Dumas to make everything go a little more smoothly.  There's not really anything to do until the big projects come about.  I sort of miss Till's constant-problems and lack-of-mice things, but I think I like Dumas's style.