<strong>Your Name: Zhang Zhang</strong>
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<strong></strong><strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/6/6

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

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

<strong>The School: Ray</strong><em>
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<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Inventory

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By now, pretty much everything is working as it should be--except the air conditioning in the 95<span style="medium;">°</span>F computer lab in which I am typing this message. In fact, two teachers cancelled their scheduled slot today because of this deathly heat.

Anyway, there are still several jobs that I did not get a chance to finish. One involves the rather large Lexmark laser printer that mysteriously appeared in the computer lab one morning. Apart from a half-broken LCD screen, it still has a very, very large cartridge full of toner, a good drum, and has both ethernet and parallel interfaces. The page count shows a whopping 121786 pages printed in the last ten years. If this can be configured as a backup printer for the lab, it should be useful for many more years.

For disposal, I've marked 4 CRT monitors and 3 non-functioning computers into the CPS Asset Disposal form. These have already been moved to the designated basement room (by hand, no less).

There are several more working Pentium III computers in the storage room (5, i think) plus 4 Pentium II and III laptops that I haven't gotten to. These computers may be somewhat old, but they still work. They probably won't run windows and the school's cocktail of background programs, but they may still work as simple web-browsing terminals. This is a far-fetched idea, but what if we get a lightweight Linux install on these computers? It may be a way to get some more use out of the machines, and with something stable like Debian, nothing short of a hardware failure should be able to break them.

Other than that, I have little more to say. It was a great year working with CUIP!

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