<strong>Your Name: </strong>Allan Zhang<strong></strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2011/11/11

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T W Θ (both weeks)

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

<strong>The School: </strong>Reavis

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Helping Teacher

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Oops I've forgotten to do the reports. It's actually been a really slow two weeks here at Reavis. There's no real big projects going on, and there's not much that I can do for them right now. But anyway... Most of the last two weeks were spent with just miscellaneous tech issues. I remember a lot of random printer maintenance/adding. Most of the printers needed new toners and whatnot, so I reinstalled the toner cartridges in the two printers in the main office and one in 204. I also switched out Mrs. Green's computer in the Office with one that I found lying around in 105. She had been complaining of a slow and loud computer. The slowness was caused by a lack of RAM. I gave her new computer a 512MB stick to help speed it up. The loudness was caused by dust in the fan and a really terrible place to put the computer (inside a closed area with no ventilation, which made it overheat). I moved her old one back into 105, but since it has no wireless card, I couldn't really do too much with it.

There were also some issues with a printer in room 203 printing gibberish. A teacher there was trying to print out a pdf file of subtraction tables, but the printer decided to print it out in what looked like Wingdings font. After a lot of testing, the problem was traced to the printer itself, but I'm not really sure how to fix it. I updated Adobe Reader to the latest version and everything, but the printer would still print out the strange font. In the end, I hooked her computer up to the printer in room 204, and just had her print from there in the future if she had problems.

I also helped to set up a computer in Room 2 for the art teacher. It seems to be working fine, if a bit slow. The only issue there is that the wireless card doesn't have an antenna, so at times the wireless connection can cut out. Unfortunately there's not too much that I can do about that, so I just left it as is.

As for the computer lab, I had another computer give me the blinking yellow light of death. But this time I actually got a confirmation that it has something to do with overheating. Immediately before it died out, it gave me an error number on boot up that, when I looked it up, referred to an overheating problem. So that's another computer down in the computer lab. We were fine for this round of testing, but more computers might need to be added to the lab if more computers die off.

<strong>My regular schedule at this school has changed, to become: </strong>Tue, Thurs  3:15-5:30pm, Wed 3:15-5pm