<strong>Your Name:</strong> Sasha Reschechtko

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2010/01/14

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M, W, Θ

<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>6

<strong>The School: </strong>Bret Harte

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech General, Helping Teachers

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Most of Monday was just checking back with teachers I'd seen on Thursday: a printer I'd set up was defaulting to manual feed and giving the teacher no paper errors, so I fixed that; I also added memory from a dead computer to one computer that was running very slowly (and had only 256 MB of RAM).  A computer in the special ed room was totally dead (Optiplex with defective motherboard), so I swapped it out (for some reason there are a bunch of computers sitting around in that room--I think they're old computers from the lab--so it wasn't hard to find a computer to use).

I also jumped through a lot of hoops to try to get that last computer in the lab connected to the internet: I got a PCI expansion piece from the dead computer, so I put that and a wireless card in the computer, but it turned out it wouldn't work with out a Service Pack update, so I connected it to the network with a cable yesterday and left it to sit overnight/until next week (hopefully it'll stay on).

I did some work on a computer in 201 that had a weird problem: it runs the Promethean board, but it was so slow that you couldn't really write on the board.  The problem, it seemed, was a program called "ccmexec" that was using all of the processing resources.  I looked it up, and apparently it's an SMS program that sometimes "goes bad" like that; I uninstalled SMS (using the microsoft toolkit), and tried to reinstall it--although I don't think it'll work because I don't remember the last time I successfully added SMS with the remediation application--but hopefully the computer will be usable now.

I also looked around the lab a little bit to try to see what's going on with the Promethean board there (no software on the computer, which needs to be Norwegian-disked and renamed), the printer (networked HP color laser printer, which I haven't figured out how to configure), and the teacher computer (OK, but I think Ms. Glover is going to order a new one since it's still one of the old machines and only has two DIMM slots and we don't have any DIMMs bigger than 256 MB).