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

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2011/02/11

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

<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>8.5

<strong>The School: </strong>Reavis

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

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Another week muddled by printers... Well on Tuesday, I did one last attempt to fix up those two printers in Room 114, but that fell apart all too quickly. I also did a lot of other miscellaneous work, including frantically trying to figure out what was going on with a printer in room 102 that apparently got mysteriously stolen. Now the robber replaced that one with another printer, but generously forgot to also bring the power cable and a USB printer cable. Unfortunately the power cable wasn't a generic one, and was a 16volt. I couldn't find one in any room that I tried searching, so I just gave up. Also mysteriously, a printer up in room 205 had its 16v adapter burn out, so we have to acquire two more.

There was also a Lexmark C734n printer in room 218 that wasn't doing anything, so I moved it to the 200-210 wing for it to serve as the central printer there. Unfortunately it refused to set up properly though, and I had to leave before I could get it up and running.

On Friday, I first went and got that Lexmark printer (now in room 204) up and running. This time it took literally 5 seconds. I don't know what happened the first time. But I got that up and running, got the printer sharing up and running, and everything was dandy. I didn't get the chance to get the computers in the wing hooked up to the printer though, so that'll have to come on Tuesday.

Anyway, Terry came in soon after, and he and I spent some time talking to Mr. Khelghati at first, though we then departed for room 5 to get two computers set up. The bad part is that although the two computers looked new, they were apparently there from 4 years ago or something, and one of the hard drives wouldn't work properly. So we ripped that out, and went hunting for another HDD. I got a primer on which was SATA and which was PATA, and we confirmed that the HDDs in the computer lab were incompatible with the MoBo in the room 5 computers. Disappointing, but we played around with Insight a bit, then went to steal an HDD from old computers in room 202. Those computers also need to be distributed, but the question of where they'll go is still murky to me. Anyway, we went down, installed the new HDD, reinstalled Windows, put new drivers on that computer, learned how annoying doing that is, and password cracked the other computer because it had a random account on it. There was some weirdness with the user accounts though, where the "Reavis" account didn't show up on the Norwegian disk crack, so we had to go into safe mode to access the now password blanked Administrator account. Anyway, that computer got up and running.

The last bit I did on Friday was to meet with a teacher to tell her how to draw on her desktop with Inspire (she has a virtual whiteboard). Her Inspire software just wasn't activated for some reason, and that caused about 20 minutes of trouble as I tried to figure out why the icon wasn't there. Oops.