Your Name: Bryan Duff
Today’s Date: 2006/12/01
Day(s) worked or described: T Th F
Total hours for week: 8.5
The School: Ray Elementary
Kind of Work: Tech general
Main Report or Narrative:
This week I continued the normal maintenance utilities , including printer, and responsibilities with the server.  Today, I added a new hard drive to a computer that Ms. Sheridan's father donated for Ms. Wasik's classroom.  I installed Windows 2000 and all of the CPS programs on it as well, and it seems to be fully functioning.

However, there was not an open network connection for it in the class room.  This is a firly seriously issue (I feel) because I think there are a handful of classrooms that have computers that are fully capable of performing, they just lack the means to access the network.  Unfortunately, we're out of all network hubs.  We had a lot of them in supply, but we had to deploy them last year to overcome the computer lab's sudden breakdown.  I'll make sure to mention this to Ms. Cobb next week, and see if we can't get on it.

I mentioned to Mitch in an email that we may consider defragging ray-srv01 in order to try and speed things up.  It might be best to start this after we have cleaned out the ray-srv01usersschool5560 file (the most commonly accessed profile).  In addition, since it usually slows computers down quite significantly, and it will affect those accessing ray-srv01 during the process.  Ms. Cobb suggested starting the defrag process at 3:30 on a Friday afternoon and letting it run through the weekend, and I think this is best.

Also, I've been doing some researching (which really means that I've been googling a lot of stuff) and a lot of "experts" seem to feel that the Windows defrag program is too slow and isn't even all that effective.  I was wondering if CUIP might want to take a position on this as well, and maybe recommend a program for using for defrag responsibilites?

Anyhow, I'm going to do my best to work next week.  It's a great break from studying and I really do enjoy it.  What it will come down to is how much sleep I'll be running on.

Best,

Bryan