<strong>Your Name: </strong>Allan Zhang<strong></strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2011/03/26

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> (Finals on Tuesday) F / T W Θ F

<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>33:06<strong>
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<strong>The School: </strong>Reavis<strong>
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<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Tech for Project, Helping Teacher

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>So yeah, I worked at Reavis over the Spring break, thus my rather insane hours, but anyway, onto more interesting/important things! I think I'll try breaking things down by room in this report, just to help organize my thoughts a little better.

So to start off: the Office. I think I ended up spending the most time here, as I spent the better part of a day cleaning out the Vault and trying to sort out the old wires and stuff that was in there. I was in dire need of some USB printer cables, so I decided to just clean out this old box of stuff there anyway, to see what else was salvageable for Reavis. Unfortunately, there really wasn't too much else interesting there. I did end up finding one USB printer cable, but otherwise it was mostly just cables for various things. I found at least 5 more ethernet cables, 2 telephone cables, and a ton of old parallel port printer cables. Those were mostly useless, since I don't think any PC in Reavis actually has a parallel port anymore, but I kept them anyway since they were still neatly packaged, and perhaps they might find some use in the future (unlikely). Apart from those cables, I found a lot of stuff for an old video camera and projector, but I didn't actually see whether they actually still work. So basically going through the box was a rather useless exercise in terms of tech needs for Reavis, but oh well.

Room 102: I ended up installing a new inkjet printer for this room after the old one was stolen for some mysterious reason. I still don't know where the old one went, but whatever.

Room 103: A new scanner actually came in, and Mr. Khelghati requested that I set it up in room 103 for community usage (after it turned out that there really wasn't any room for it in the office), so now there's a community scanner. Unfortunately, it's still slightly problematic for teachers to actually use it, since there isn't an easy way of getting the files from the scanner computer to their own personal computer. I don't know if anyone has actually used it, but they can, at the very least, e-mail them to one another. I was tossing around the idea of publicly sharing a folder on the computer that all scanned documents would get saved into, but I didn't actually do it. If you guys have any other suggestions, I'm all ears!

The room across the hall from the Office: Turned Num Lock on (Three people had difficulty logging on because they didn't know that it wasn't on), and turned the table around so students couldn't look over the teacher's shoulder and see what they were doing (it's a detention room).

Room 104 (Mr. Coleman's Office): Tried to mess with the fax machine a bit more. I still don't know what's wrong with it, but no faxes are getting sent out, and all faxes that I try to send out are just saved into memory. There's no error message though, and the phone that's connected to the fax works just fine. No idea. I also tried moving the unused computer in Mr. Khelghati's office into this one, but it turned out to be slower than the existing one, so I just put it in storage in case it would be needed elsewhere.

Room 105 and 106: Gave each room one computer that had been sitting in storage waiting to be used, and set them up properly for usage.

Room 114: Installed a new printer for her after the printheads on her two existing ones died.

Room 5: Reinstalled the wireless adapter on one computer after it stopped logging onto the wireless automatically, and installed Microsoft Office and Adobe Reader on both computers. For some reason, the only way I could actually get the Adobe Reader installer was to install Chrome and download it from there, since Adobe wanted to install these silly add-ons for IE and FF and failed at doing so. I also renamed them both properly and got them CPS compliant, but for some reason, one computer has no option to join a domain. CPS's script got stuck precisely because of this reason, so I ended up just leaving it domain-less.

Room 201: For some reason, the computer by the door refused to log on for Ms. Askew, but it worked perfectly when I tried. *shrug*

And while I'm on that note, I ended up renaming the printer in Room 204 to 204 Lexmark or something like that. Some teachers got confused as to which Lexmark was which (the one in 103 would be like \i5580w42...Lexmark and the one in 204 would be like \i5580w4008...Lexmark), so I first renamed the printer, then reinstalled it on every machine in the wing. I didn't do this for the 103 printer though.

Room 202: Went through every machine in the room and recorded it for asset disposal. Terry came in and helped with taking some spare parts out of some of the machines for future use (just in case), and we ended up removing some PSUs, CD Drives, and HDDs. After that, I lined them all up by the door for removal, and they're all gone now. I also checked some of the spare parts in the cardboard box to make sure they're all functional, and to see what spare parts we had. Unfortunately I get the feeling that most of that stuff won't ever be used, but oh well.

Room 205: One computer on the end was apparently having issues where the computer would freeze up after some usage. I really couldn't figure out the reason why it did that though, nor could I replicate the freeze. I ended up just giving up after a while.

Room 211: There's a laser printer in this room, and whatever document it tried to print out, the middle segment of the page was just blank. After some snooping around, I determined that the toner was probably running out, so I placed an order for another toner cartridge.

Room 216: So the computer lab has issues with hardware getting stolen and moved around, so I ended up inventorying the losses and changes from what the computer lab should look like, and e-mailed that information to Mr. Khelghati and Terry so that Mr. Khelghati could try to clamp down on the thefts and stuff happening in the room. Also, the laser printer in the room apparently stopped connecting to the network, even though it's connected to a switch and the other computers on the switch work fine. But Mitch came in, plugged the printer into a wall socket, and all was well. I'm not sure what's up the switch though. I need to look into that.

I think that's pretty much it. I didn't elaborate on a lot of stuff that I ended up trying to fix some of these issues, but I'm sure no one cares about it anyway, and that people's eyes would begin to glaze over, so I just excised those portions.