<strong>Your Name:</strong> Choong Hwa Shin

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2011/01/21 [2011/01/04-20]

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

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

<strong>The School:</strong> Ray Elementary School

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general

<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong> The new RAM arrived over the break, so I started upgrading the memory on some Dells to 1 GB.

Besides that I mostly spent time responding to tech requests. Mitch came in to teach me about adding sharing printers. I later added a printer to two student station computers in room 206. I also replaced a printer in room 214 because it continued to display an "out of paper" error. The new printer, which is the same model as the old one (HP LaserJet 1100), seems to be working without displaying the error.

A projector from room 307 had its lamp replaced, after which it started emitting an odor stronger than usual. Mrs. Zikvo and I weren't sure what was causing the odor. Since the lamp was working, it was not a large problem other than the odor.

There's a tech request from room 304 which I haven't been able to resolve. When a DVD is played on VLC, the audio stutters, but the video is fine. Cache size for VLC doesn't seem to be the problem. Also, videos played from the hard drive are fine. Interestingly, when I play the DVD without menu, the audio does not stutter.

Two other problems I've encountered are both related to audio. One is that Mrs. Zikvo accidentally uninstalled the driver for an audio device on her projector computer. Although we've reinstalled it, we cannot seem to get sound playback. The other is that I was looking at an IBM NetVista student station in room 314, whose front headphone jack wasn't working. I updated the driver for the audio device, after which it could not start properly.

More prompt updates next time.