Bryan DuffBret Harte ElementaryFriday: 12:30-3:30Tech GeneralThings went pretty well at Bret Harte.  I made a lotof progressing getting to know the teachers and askingif there were any specific concerns with any of thetechnology.  The good news is that there were not.The bad news is obviously the wide spread AR dataissues.  I asked each teacher if they were havingproblems, and I fixed those computers in question.Three or four teacheres told me not to worry about itbecause they never use any sort of AR program.  Ifthere wasn't a teacher in the room, I went ahead andchecked the machines anyway.I also made it through the lab fixing the datalocations.  At this point, you ought to be wonderinghow I was so proficient.  The first reason is thattoday was inservice, so there were no kids on anymachines.  The second reason is the one I sent in anemail earlier:"If you open \harte-srv01, provide the login, andsave it before openingany of the AR / Star programs, there's no need to goand re-point the datalocation.  This makes sense on an intuitive level tome: it doesn't knowit's missing until you run the program, so if you canopen the serverfolder before it looks for it, then the program willhave never known itto be missing.More on this in the report.  To my knowledge (relyingon what teachershave told me), I've reset all of the programs in theschool other than thelab, which I am starting on now."So that happened today, which is good.  I told Ms.Evans to keep me posted if there are any other issuesthat come up.Also, when I made it around the lab today, I didn'tget the impression that it was in as bad of shape as Ihad read in an email earlier this week.  I only foundone mouse that wasn't working (it could be themachine's fault, I didn't have time to really check)and one other machine that didn't turn on.  I didn'ttest any headphones, so maybe things are a lot worsethan they seem to me.All in all, things were good today.  I answered a lotof little questions to several teachers (i.e. how tochange the desktop wallpaper) which was good.  Thisall hopefully moves in the direction of making BretHarte more self-reliant.Thanks!Bryan