<strong>Your Name: </strong>Jackson Wright

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/9

[Week or date reporting about: 11/5/2007]

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

<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>somewhere between seven &amp; eight

<strong>The School: </strong>Mollison School

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab maintenance)

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

Certainly, this week at Mollison was not 7th heaven by any stretch of the imagination.  Monday was relatively calm, so much so I've entirely forgotten what I did on Monday.  Basically, I think I fixed the computers in the back office, or rather diagnosed one as trash and the other I managed to get working.  It must have been really uneventful.

Even if it did have events, it was entirely overshadowed by the fiasco of Wednesday.  Imagine this scene:  I calmly walk in to sign in, and Mrs. Otiki (at the front desk) let's me know that computers aren't working in 101, 102, 103, 104.   She also lets me know that someone from CPS came in to "update the system" and went into the MDF room and did something. 

So, I proceed to figure out why these computers aren't working.  And they all have the same problem: no IP address.  Well, thankfully Mitch and Joe arrived to save the day.  Only, they didn't.  :(  The three of us were unable to do anything to fix the problem...turning the power supply on the servers off and on didn't fix anything.  And that's about all we felt comfortable changing.  So, we spent the rest of the time in the dark computer lab discussing the protocol for ghosting one of the No-Names or Eagle Views.

There were dark times at Mollison on Wednesday and part of Thursday.  No classrooms had access to the internet or even standard CPS services like FirstClass and Impact.  Apparently, our phone call to CPS was not enough to get an engineer out to Mollison to fix the problem they created on Wednesday.  But, someone came in on Thursday and plugged something in somewhere to fix the network.

And, indeed, the computers are back online.  However, that ominous orange light still remains in the MDF room.

As for today, I discussed some project ideas with the art teacher, and also mentioned to the principal and VP the notion of getting Deep Freeze in the lab.  This would prevent sneakers being continually tiled as desktop wallpapers.  Among other things anyway.

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