<strong>Your Name: Emily Watkins</strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/1/22

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

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

<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, tech general, more tech general

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>

Monday was relatively quiet -- I can't remember it too well, but I think I spent the day fixing printers (most specifically, Mr. Orekoya's and Dr. Cima's) and creating sync stations everywhere I could. Wednesday, on the other hand, was much more memorable. When I came in, I was informed that the internet was down in about half of the building. The problem became even more daunting when I discovered that the computers having internet problems were showing the same symptoms as the Dell with which I'd been having issues last week: the computer sees the internet and thinks it's connected, but refuses to access the internet. Fortunately, Sara arrived just as I was ready to enter a major panic. We did some detective work around the school that included finding and power-cycling  concentrator boxes (unfortunately, not effective), and comparing the IP addresses of functional and nonfunctional computers. The comparisons we made provided us a useful clue in the form of some rogue IP addresses which appeared on the broken computers and did not match those held by the functioning computers. Mitch and Dana worked some computing magic on Thursday, and when I returned on Friday they had developed a few solutions to this mysterious epidemic. I didn't get to implement them too broadly, however, since most of my day was spent installing programs on the computers in 107 (maybe? the special ed kindergarten with the sweet touch-screen computers), fixing more printers, and running around the school telling people that the internet was down everywhere, not just on their computer, and that we were attempting to fix the problem. Fortunately, the rest of the Fermi CUIP crew again came through on Tuesday and negotiated with technicians and computer components of all sorts to solve the mystery of the missing internet! Things seem to be all better now, so tomorrow's work will revolve around installing programs on the computer lab machines and resetting these computers to the automatic IP settings.