Name: Allison
Today’s Date: 4/27/07
Days worked or described:Th, FR
Total Hours worked for week: 5
Kind of work: maitenance
Main Report or Narrative:
As I wrote last week, I had thought that I would get the computers online this week, but that didn't happen. They told me they were getting scratch disk error messages on some of the computers, so i worked on that - the scratch disk preferences were somewhat ... inconsistant... from computer to computer, from user to user, so I applied one system to the lab. That won't solve all the scratch disk problems, though, cuz they just don't have the space that they want/need. I guess some more external drives will be purchased to help with that, but for the time being it's a major problem, and one they seem unwilling to deal with. (they want more space, but don't want to delete anything...I'm trying to make the point that you can't have your cake and eat it to, and hopefully one of these days it'll get through...) so I looked around for old temp files that are no longer needed, and got rid of those, multiple copies of files, etc...clearing up some space. There's still a space problem though, and I can't solve it completely cuz I don't have the authority to just go deleting stuff (though I have a suspicion I could delete a whole bunch of old files and nobody would notice they were missing...but I'm not going to try...). They were also having some permissions problems on some, so i did permissions repair as well. Maybe next week I'll get them all online. Assuming no new problems come up.