<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman
<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2007/11/16
Reporting on most recent week
<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: Tu, F
<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 4.4 (Building closed early again on Friday)
<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle
<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General
<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>: On Tuesday, I finished labeling all computers, and quickly showed Ms. Echols the blog. I'll haveto type up more thorough directions and email them to her. I tinkered around in safe mode and "fixed" the low memory problems on the computer in 207 and E4 in the lab. Actually, I did nothing other than restart into safe mode, look at the settings, and then restart into the normal booting mode. Things started working again.

E1 was having major problems on Tuesday...re-seating the HD fixed it sorta, but when I moved the computer around, the problem re-appeared. On Friday, I switched the power connector to the HD, and things started working again. Also, the network port that E1 was connected to is not working. There was a spare port to plug into, but does someone from CPS need to come in and address that? 

C4 is acting suspect. The power buttons on the machine weren't working in Windows, and in the process of going to the control panel to correct that, the entire computer freaked out and became unresponsive. I'll have to check it out on Tuesday.

 I was asked by a teacher to install ChildServe, which I did on a specific computer (she said that was fine with her).  After logging on as techco and installing the software, I realized that I'd need to install a shortcut to the software on the desktop, and there were four different teachers who needed to use the software. Not having the teachers' passwords (I tried it out using what Mitch told me, but I think that only applies to the students. If so, is it against a security policy for me to know?), I resolved to test my VisualBasic skillz (sic.). The possibility of telling the teachers the path to run the program didn't actually occur to me until the writing of this post, hehe.

 Anyway, long story short, I edited the Canter-4260-Staff logon .vbs file. I will post what I added on the wiki if that's okay with Mitch.

I didn't get to writing blogging directions for the teacher, and I still need to work with Russ on the wiki. I have to dash since the building is about to close, but I'll either update this when I get home, or send Mitch and Russ an email.

Cool Page: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2005-September/thread.html#47862

-Ben Hyman