<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman
<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2007/11/02
Reporting on most recent week
<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: Tu, F
<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 4 (See note below)
<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle
<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General
<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>: On Tuesday, I fixed W14, which was having issues the previous week. It turned out that the latest error was a BIOS problem. However, the CD drive is neither opening nor being picked up by Windows. I spent a significant amount of time on Friday taking a look inside; I connected a cable that looked like it should have been connected, and the CD-drive opened...once! I'm still encountering problems...I'm going to take an even closer look this upcoming Tuesday. It's good hardware practice, though.

Also Tuesday, Mitch stopped by and we looked at some INSTR user policies stuff. I'll see what happens if further student login issues arise. I still need to ask Ms. Ahad for teacher emails and for her to distribute my email among the teachers.

I had stopped by CUIP headquarters Wednesday and picked up three mice and two power strips. This Friday, I used two of the mice and one of the power strips in room 207 -- all five computers are now operational, although I had to steal a spare keyboard from computer lab 302 to get one of the 98 computers working. For reference, the Compaq mouse furthest to the left, and the mouse on the Dell all the way on the right, belong to CUIP, as does the power strip on the floor.

W14, which is certainly my biggest problem child so far, had a mouse without a ball. I used the third mouse from CUIP on that. Like I said, this computer seems to be a worthy adversary!

Also Friday, I was asked to set up a printer so that a few other computers in the room could print to it. Since this wasn't a network printer, I couldn't set up an IP port. I enabled printer sharing on the locally connected computer (which, by the way, doesn't have a techco account ... is that something I can address?), and was able to connect to the computer/printer on a networked  machine, both as local techco and logged in as bhyman4260 on INSTR. However, this is not suitable, since I wasn't able to <em>add</em> the printer on a permanent basis, and non-privileged INSTR users (which includes the staff) won't be able to use this method. Mitch/Russ, any ideas? Note that I didn't install the printer using the "Add Printers" window, since there was no option for connecting to a computer using its IP address. Should I try and do more research?

I'm helping one of the special ed. teachers set up a blog, but I think I need to work with Mitch to set up a subdomain, correct?

I knew this Friday was a staff day, but today specifically, that meant I had to leave at 3:00. Since time cards were due this past Wednesday, that means I'll be paid for 1 hour for which I did not work. I will adjust Tuesday's time card accordingly ... do I need to let someone in NSP know this as well, or just adjust my time card?

I checked a few computers to see whether or not the generic INSTR login worked, and may or may not continue this process on Tuesday. It's mostly equivalent to checking whether the Internet connection works on a given computer.

As for the upcoming week, I will probably just bite the bullet and find a way to label all the computers, but I'll probably need to produce some other work as well!

-Ben Hyman