<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman
<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/4/25
Reporting on most recent week
<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: T, Th
<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5.5
<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle
<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General
<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>: Tuesday was almost comical ... almost.
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I spent more than 2 hours on a single computer, in 207. Allow me to illustrate:
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	<li>Network card didn't work --> Replace with a PCI card</li>
<li>PCI card didn't work (no space in AP400 to connect power to motherboard) --> Try hooking up a different computer</li>
<li>Different computer (DeskPro) didn't work --> Try two others, a 5100 (can't put RAM in because the 5100 is finicky about the size), then another DeskPro (get POST errors with both DeskPros...may be something to do with either graphics card, or RAM)</li>
<li>No computers worked --> Try another one, which had Windows 98 on it (I know this beforehand). It worked!</li>
<li>Attempt to upgrade Windows 98 --> Can't upgrade because the CD drive does not work because the IDE controller on the motherboard is no good, and there are no spare ones.</li></ul> 

At that point, I decided to take a break from that computer. I also reinstalled SMS on C3 and E3, to see if that would resolve the patches problem (even though the adm website reported that sms was okay for the computers). As I was leaving, Dr. Conlan asked me to speak with the two people who were auditing the school. I spoke with them briefly about the number (and type) of computers in the school, and then headed out.

As I was walking in on Thursday, Ms. Ahad asked me if I would take a look at her printer. Near as I could tell, it was a power issue. I opened up the printer (something I'd never done before) and fiddled around a bit...in the end, I got it working (and yes, I think it was a power supply issue, or that the on-off switch didn't work), plus I learned some more about printers. I also replaced the display for the computer on the left in the teacher's lounge, and magically fixed the computer on the right which wasn't working (Windows wouldn't fully boot up). Lastly, I installed the latest Windows updates on C3, but didn't manage to finish doing it for E3. I'll have to get to that on Tuesday.

<strong>Remaining issues</strong>
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<li>Network card in 207</li>
<li>E3 Windows Updates</li>
<li>Locating spare peripherals around the building</li>
<li>Correcting SMS on bad computers as picked up through compliance website. I believe this will also fix the computers that don't have the critical patches.</li>
<li>Ms. Spector's blog</li>
<li>Seeing how Ms. Washington is doing with her blog</li>
<li>Sending Ms. LaCour directions for the financial-record-keeping software.</li>
<li>RAM testing</li>
<li>Making sure the descriptions on computers C3, E1, and E5 are okay.</li>
<li>Finding display drivers for E5/others.</li>
<li>Possible memory issues in room 106</li>
<li>Editing the theme for this site. That may not be something I can do too well at Canter, or at least not without my laptop.</li>

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<strong>"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due."
- Hob Gadling, in Season of Mists</strong>

-Ben Hyman