Your Name: Bryan Duff
Today’s Date: 2007/12/06
Reporting on most recent week
Day(s) worked or described: R
Total hours for week: 2.5
The School: Bret Harte
Kind of Work: Tech General

Today we met to straighten out the lab.  We determined that four machines are not working, and that three of them require service calls to Dell.  Those were taken off the desk.

The wiring in the lab was also somewhat straightened out.  I'm still pleased with how much neater things are on the west rows of computers (despite the massive hub), and the east side where Mitch was looks pretty good.  Hopefully at some point I'll have the chance to go through the east rows and straighten things out.

The lab will probably continue to be an issue as students are usually unsupervised in there.  It'll be better once Deep Freeze is added.

The data location for AR and other programs continues to be an issue.  I went to several rooms today to try and re-open the \harte-srv01ALSDATA folder so the programs could access this, but I was locked out.  Mitch believes this has something to do with the new server not wanting a particular username - in this case school3780 - logging on too frequently.  This would make sense as to why I was locked out, because this username and password was saved in the machine.

Shaz did find online how to unsave or edit these passwords:

<strong><a href="http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/AdminTips/Security/RemoveSavedPasswords.html">http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/AdminTips/Security/RemoveSavedPasswords.html</a></strong>

<strong>CMD
rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr
</strong>

Hopefully this can be straightened out soon.

Also, Mitch spoke with the librarian who says that everything seems to be working fine.  That's certainly a relief.

It was a great quarter for me at Harte and I feel like we made a lot of progress with things (though I understand we've taken two steps forward and one step back a lot of times with the AR data).  I look forward to coming back next quarter, and as Shaz mentioned to me today, it'll be nice to start to do some more classroom specific stuff.  I look forward to working with Ms. Evans more, also.

Thanks a lot for the great quarter!  Hope you all have a nice break and I will see you when I get back.

Best,

Bryan