Bryan Duff
Bret Harte Elementary
Thursday: 12-1; Friday 12:30-3:30
Tech General

Thursday I fixed a machine in the lab which was prompting for a Dell BIOS pasword before starting Windows.  All it required was pulling off a password jumper, booting it up, then shutting it down to put the password jumper back on (insight courtesy of Dell's online support).

Friday I had to install Accelerated Math on a few machines.  These were not re-installs, but installs for the first time.  It's promising that Ms. Evans and everyone at Bret Harte has so much more confidence in using AM.

I also helped Ms. Parks create a backup task for her files.  They're also being saved in an exclusive shared folder on \harte-srv01 which only she can read or write to.  She seems to be coming to terms with her recent mass loss of data.

I spent the rest of the time cleaning up the lab.  There's one machine which is awfully noisy.  If history continues to repeat itself this likely means Dell will need to switch it's motherboard soon.  I wiped down and disenfected all of the keyboards and mice and shut the machines down for the long week.

I would still like to work on Bret Harte's webpage, so if anyone has any insight as to how to access the pages, I would appreciate it.

I was unaware until today that next week is CPS' spring break, so it's too bad that I won't be able to come into work.  I look forward to coming back in a couple weeks!

Thanks!

