<strong>Your Name:</strong> Sasha Reschechtko

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2009/12/03

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M,T, Th

<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>6

<strong>The School: </strong>Woodlawn Community School

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Monday was pretty slow; I finished putting name stickers on the computers, showed Ms. Johnson that the scanner was easy to use (although I think she's still hesitant to have the students use it for a "family calendar" project, moved a little bit of stuff around the storage rooms, and looked at a computer from storage that seems royally screwed up with some sort of pre-BIOS failure that I can't diagnose.

On Tuesday, I found the library for the first time this year: apparently, the other Ms. Johnson had complained that the computers there didn't have internet access (some of them did not because she moved all of the computers in such a way that we didn't have ethernet cords long enough to reach, and some of the computers could not fit full-height PCI cards (and therefore wireless).  In any case, apparently Mr. Embil saw it fit to take the matter into his own hands, which involved taking all of the Ethernet cables out of the wall, buying a cable router, and plugging a single cable from the wall into all of the computers that had ethernet cables (which was two of six, I think).  One of the cables he took out of the wall was one going to Ms. Johnson's computer, so she could not log on and none of the computers would print.  SO, I plugged that cable back in (to the router, actually, because the cable doesn't go across the middle of the room this way), and plugged the rest of the computers into the router, and shared out the printer using a script (I'm making scripts for each classroom and saving them in the "tech3860" network folder, in case someone needs one eventually).  One of the computers, however, was in big trouble: it didn't recognize a hard disk, and was giving a BIOS failure light code.

Thursday, I set up the last CUIP donated computer in 204 because I replaced some nonessential USB mice in the library with PS/2 ones, so I had a USB mouse for that computer (that was all that was holding us back), and spent the rest of the day trying to fix the computer from the library.  I reloaded the BIOS and put in a new hard disk, after which it recognized a disk, so I loaded W2k and office did remediation.  It's pretty much ready to go back into the library now, but I'm not having any luck installing Flash (I don't know if that's necessary, though)...
I should be in for my normal schedule next week, although it's possible I'll go in early some days; I let you know if I change something.