<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman
<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/5/8
Reporting on most recent week
<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: T, Th
<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5.4
<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle
<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General
<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>: And once more, Tuesday was almost comical ... almost.
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Mrs. Harris was having trouble installing a cartridge in her printer, so I took a look. I had a lot of trouble (and I mean, *a lot*) getting the old one out, and it's possible the printer was damaged in the process of removing it (I'm pretty sure the cartridge that was in there was not the right one...I have no idea how whoever installed it first got it in there). In any event, it's not working, and the printer won't even perform a self-test.

I also tried installing new memory (well, some of the old stuff I'd found that hadn't worked at first) in Mr. Fishbein's computer, since he was having problems way back in the fall. I almost fell over laughing (hysterical laughter, not the good kind) when his computer subsequently didn't work – perhaps the RAM was no good after all. It was a Compaq AP400, and the first stick I put in caused it to keep rebooting after it had started loading Windows, and the second stick completely prevented any output to the monitor. At first I thought I was just having bad luck, so I resolved to put in a new graphics card on Thursday.

Thursday I walked in resolved to fix a lot of problems (plus with a new toolkit!). I successfully applied the Windows updates to the computer in the teacher's lounge, replaced the graphics card on E4 (it was having problems, and is now fixed), started installing Windows 2K over a Windows 98 computer to completely replace Mr. Fishbein's old computer, and took another look at Mrs. Harris' printer (my diagnosis is the same as before).



<strong>Several Questions:</strong>
<em> <ul>
	<li>Do we have an HD enclosure from which I can recover data from the CPUs that we're disposing of?</li>
	<li>There's a computer picked up by the ADM website that's on the Shoesmith domain and still connected. Do you think it would be in the MDF room?</li>
	<li>Russ, the mouse wasn't working on the very first computer as you enter the room. There was a Windows Vista sticker over the optical sensor. Was that intentional on your part?</li>
	<li>Any suggestions for fixing Ms. Harris' printer? It's a HP psc 1315xi.</li>
	<li>Ms. Spector seems to have found it easier to maintain her blog on a site called EduBlogs. Is there a CUIP position on this?</li>
	<li>The <a href="http://ots.cps.k12.il.us/disposalservices/assetdisposalsurvey.aspx">form for asset disposal</a> (available only in the CPS network) requires several pieces of information I don't have, plus it doesn't seem to require anything about writing down the tags for assets to be disposed of. As far as I can tell, one just needs to specify a location where stuff is to be picked up from. How should I proceed on this?</li></ul></em>

<strong>Remaining Issues:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Network card in 207</li>
<li>Ms. Harris' printer</li>
<li>RAM Redistribution and Mr. Fishbein's computer (which had a gm.dls error I've seen before)</li>
<li>Addressing the old/broken computers in the lab</li>
<li>Locating spare peripherals around the building</li>
<li>Ms. Spector's blog</li>
<li>Seeing how Ms. Milton is doing with her blog</li>
<li>Sending Ms. LaCour directions for the financial-record-keeping software.</li>
<li>Making sure the descriptions on computers C3, E1, and E5 are okay.</li>
<li>Finding display drivers for E5/others.</li>
<li>Possible memory issues in room 106</li>
<li>Editing the theme for this site. That may not be something I can do too well at Canter, or at least not without my laptop.</li></ul>

<strong>"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football."
-John Heisman.</strong>