
<h1>Staff Activities and Schools for Week of 2007/02/17</h1>
<h2>School Hours Summary</h2>
(Monday 2/19 was Presidents Day, CPS schools were closed and I took a vacation day.)
<ul>
	<li>Fermi Tues 4:20 + Thur 3:40 = 6:00</li>
	<li>Price Fri 1:30</li>
	<li>Wadsworth Thur 1:15</li>
	<li>Woodlawn Fri online work 0:45</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do's</h2>
<ul>
	<li>Email to Louisa and other NSPs at CPSWIRELESS schools with WEP key etc.
<ul>
	<li>Done</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>URGENT … Check Ray webserver!
<ul>
	<li>Scheduled for Tues 2/27</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Finish deciding between fixup of www2 and replacement
<ul>
	<li>Replacement had hardware problems, recovered www2 okay.</li>
	<li>Restore techwiki
<ul>
	<li>Done</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Restore cuipblogs.org WPMU
<ul>
	<li>Done, but some odd behavior is surfacing.  Newly created blogs not showing dashboard.  Will try a reinstall.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Fermi lab (but not Fermilab)
<ul>
	<li>We made a lot of further progress. See the school report below.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>DNS settings update for office computers. Check with Christie &amp; Julia, also CWD and Walrus servers.
<ul>
	<li>Not done</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Sexton NSIT machines: Last step, remove rotting hulk of #6 from 322
<ul>
	<li>Result: Not removed yet</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Sexton laptops
<ul>
	<li>No progess</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Retrieve unneeded sound cards from Till Primary Library
<ul>
	<li>Not done</li>
	<li>Hand this off to either of the NSPs</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li> WP standalones, upgrade to 2.1
<ul>
	<li>Deferred again.</li>
	<li> Now get 2.1.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>WP standalones, distribute standardized shared themes and plugins collection
<ul>
	<li>Will follow the version upgrades.</li>
	<li>Use the research from Erin, go over options with Shaz</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Till engineers office computer (toINSTR?), and P.D. for Mr. Blaze
<ul>
	<li>Not done</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>“Deferred longer term: Trial installation of Skeletonz CMS” or other CMS. Last week: –Still deferred
<ul>
	<li>No action this week</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Carried forward:: Installation and tryout of Retrospect for desktop backups in CUIP lab”</li>
	<li>Carried forward: Techwiki entries for
<ul>
	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part I, how to get from SI to file: this entry exsts, add note about not trusting floppies, use thumbdrive or direct upload to server</li>
	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part II, what to do with the file — stub only in place, take from email sent to Bryan</li>
	<li>Power-on passwords and Setup Admin Passwords: take from email with Jimmy and Linda Sudduth</li>
	<li>Added to this to-do list: the CPSWIRELESS notes</li>
	<li>Did update some random pages, including TCP/IP printer installation</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<h2>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h2>
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<h2>This week's activity not at or for a specific school</h2>
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<h3>CUIP Team Building</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Added contact form for Russ to <a href="http://techwiki.cuip.net/Contact_CUIP">http://techwiki.cuip.net/Contact_CUIP</a></li>
</ul>
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<h3>eCUIP</h3>
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<h3>Chicago Web Docent</h3>
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<h3>CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Brought in some containers for organizing storage.  Temporarily creates clutter themselves in the office, oh well.</li>
	<li>Met with Shaz and Don about future office space and server options.</li>
	<li>Shaz contacted Jim Pasalano about the overheating in AAC-007, and almost immediately one of the building engineers came in and took some readings.  He recalibrated the thermostat and rerouted the blower (!).  The room is now VASTLY more comfortable (if a bit noisier).  Thanks!</li>
</ul>
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<h3>CUIP Servers</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Restored apache2/php5 on www2, enabling Techwiki and WPμ.</li>
	<li>Filesystem check on CWD usb external drive.  Pretty shaky.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>This week's activity at or for specific schools</h2>
<h3></h3>
<h3>Fermi</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Tuesday 2/20 for 4:20, with Christie and Kathy. Lab checkup, to see that all computers allow School local login and have the right domains in the "Log on to" dropdown. There were about 3 trouble spots ... two where we cannot join a domain, and one where even when disjoined from domains the local security policy cannot be changed to allow non-complex passwords. (So School has a complex password on that one.) If worse comes to worst, I think they can be reimaged.</li>
	<li>Extended power lines, but not yet network cables, to the small front row.</li>
	<li>The unattended Ghosting that I started on Friday did not work out. However, I reran it today and it went well.</li>
	<li>I did a standalone installation of Deep Freeze on one of the clean lab computers, and it responded well to the password. But we think there is a console.</li>
	<li>Thursday 2/22, with Kathy.    Connected and turned on the two computers on the front separated table.</li>
	<li>ALL computers now boot correctly and accept this-computerschool logins with the short password, also this-computertechco with correct password.</li>
	<li>All but two allow INSTR logins.   Will fix those by re-imaging.</li>
	<li>The same all-but-two have Deep Freeze.  Nice work, Kathy!</li>
	<li>The ThawSpace drive does not accept files from non-privileged user —but could make a folder and then make file within the folder.</li>
	<li>Mr. Taylor stepped in briefly.  He was already aware that we didn't do
the horseshoe arrangement as discussed, but understands it was an  operational decision.  He clearly thought the dangling wires need fixing  quickly, and we said that would be next priority.  We said we were installing Deep Freeze and explained it briefly, but didn't get to the part about needing caution in file saving.</li>
</ul>
To do in the lab:
<ul>
	<li>Neaten up loose wires! (find somebody on CUIP team who's really good with cable ties)</li>
	<li> One or two machines need reimaging (or followup to a reimaging that has been done)</li>
	<li>Label/number computers visibly.</li>
	<li>We should give Mr. Taylor (or teacher tech team) a full rundown of various things (such as warning that documents saved to desktop or  MyDocuments on DF computers will not be safe)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Price</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Friday 2/23, for 1:30, with Kevin and Ari.</li>
	<li>F. Williams is no longer at Price, so her print-driver question is a matter of email  help rather than onsite help.</li>
	<li>Ari and Kevin surveyed the stationary lab for computers that meet the specs for a special program.  [I didn't get the name of the program.]  The key item was checking for 256 MB RAM, but also general working order and network connection.  The program has helped out with some extra RAM, also they will be bringing 5 additional computers with a spec of 100 GB storage!</li>
	<li>CUIP contributed a couple spare mice and an 8-port 10/100 ethernet switch, towards getting all stations in the lab usable and connected.</li>
	<li>No real progress on the big HP color printer.  I removed the fuser assembly and wiped all the roller surfaces, and checked there is nothing interfering with the drive gears in there.  Suggested to Herron that she get it serviced by someone trained on these printers, maybe an extended-sertvice consultant through 3-EXCL.  Gave her a problem description to present to them: "Paper gets stuck after 2 or 3 inches emerge from the fuser at the end of tghe paper path.  The paper does not get torn or crinkled up, just stuck."</li>
</ul>
<h3>Ray</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Spoke with Mary at the Principals Retreat. Scheduled testing reboot of Ray web server for next Tuesday, 2/27.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Wadsworth</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Thurs 2/22 for 1:15. Looked at several computers which had been presenting login or network connection problems. Wrote up full-reinstall-W2K note, but on further consideration none of the machines there need this full treatment right now.</li>
	<li>They have put a new set of numbers on the computers, according to the current actual layout. Nice!</li>
	<li>With Noah, looked at what to do when the INSTR generic login the students use has become locked out.</li>
	<li>We also looked at a computer that was not connecting to the wireless, and set up a default profile in the Linksys management application, using the hex string version of the WEP key.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Woodlawn</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Friday 2/23 online 45 min.  Set up Gallery.</li>
</ul>
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