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<h2>School hours summary</h2>
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<ul>
	<li>Canter 1:30</li>
	<li>Fermi 2:30</li>
	<li>Ray 3:125</li>
	<li>Sexton 5:00</li>
	<li>Till 1:15</li>
	<li>Wadsworth 5:20</li>
</ul>
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<h2>[[Status on previously deferred or continuing items]]</h2>
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<ul>
	<li>Sexton NSIT machines: One failure for no hard drive. Other five are DONE.
To do: Bring HDD for sixth machine, or else remove it. Place in classrooms per discussion with tech comkittee.</li>
	<li>Price laptop lockouts: get the story</li>
	<li>"Wadsworth -- 221 row-by-row fixup to continue" .
Did continue, Thursday with Noah. Needs a some more attention, at least one more time. See notes below in schools section -- I no longer trust that this room can be kept going as a reliable lab.</li>
	<li>"Monday: Intro at Ray for Dawei and Gabe Sheridan"
Done.</li>
	<li>Wordpress Multiuser: Installation and fancy DNS setup are DONE. Showed to CUIP staff.
To do: Make decent text front page. Prune themes and plugins.
Continue staff testing before general release.</li>
	<li>"Make sure all bloggers have access to special themes or plugins via shared collection."
--Will be done in conjunction with upgrade to Wordpress 2.1</li>
	<li>"Check nsp mailman list enrollments"
-- Done, but hurriedly. Recheck, and add subsequent new students.</li>
	<li>"Deferred longer term: Trial installation of Skeletonz CMS" or other CMS
--Still deferred</li>
	<li>"Carried forward:: Installation and tryout of Retrospect for desktop backups in CUIP lab"
-- Still a to-do</li>
	<li>"Carried forward:: Track down my writeup in email (to Duff) to put inWiki documentation for INSTR at</li>
</ul>
<a eudora="AUTOURL" href="http://techwiki.cuip.net/HowTo_Update_Student_INSTR_Accounts_with_Legacy_SI_Data">http://techwiki.cuip.net/HowTo_Update_Student_INSTR_Accounts_with_Legacy_SI_Data</a>

and update <a eudora="AUTOURL" href="http://techwiki.cuip.net/HowTo_Get_Student_Data_from_Legacy_SI">http://techwiki.cuip.net/HowTo_Get_Student_Data_from_Legacy_SI</a>

with notes about not relying on floppy diskette."
-- Still a to-do
<ul>
	<li>"Carried forward: Doing something with the extra NSIT machines we held back -- especially after whinging so much about needing a computer work table!"
-- I haven't dealt with these, but Russ and Christie have in various ways.</li>
	<li>"Carried forward or abandoned: Read xeroxed OLPC article."
-- Still carried forward.</li>
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<h2>[[This week's new carry-forwards and to-dos]]</h2>
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<ul>
	<li>Wadsworth -- Install Harcourt Reading student client program for Ms Coffey in lab 221. (The server side is already installed.)</li>
	<li>WP 2.1 -- ugrade most freestanding weblogs. Distribute themes and plugins, taking care not to clobber existing mods.</li>
	<li>Ray -- see if a different domain altogether can share the WPMU installation, or needs another.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>[[Non-school categories]]</h2>
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<h3>CUIP Team</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Several NSP interviews, with Sara.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>CUIP Office and Computing</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Nothing to report</li>
</ul>
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<h3>CUIP Servers</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Finished installation &amp; DNS setup for WPMU, showed to CUIP staff. To do: make some suitable text for front pages; improve selection of themes and plugins; continue to test it out</li>
	<li>Upgraded some separate Wordpress blogs we host to version 2.1, preparations to do so for almost all.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>[[School-related but not specific schools]]</h3>
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<ul>
	<li>Minor techwiki work</li>
</ul>
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<h2>[[Individual schools, alphabetically]]</h2>
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<h3>Canter</h3>
Tues 1/23 w/ Russ for 1:30
<ul>
	<li>Rebooted school server (with student &amp; staff network home folders) which for unknown reasons was stuck.</li>
	<li>Looked at INSTR structure, tried to adjust the Group Policy settings for Canter's users. Russ will write to Sandip to request Group Policy permissions be restored to GG-Tech-Canter usergroup (which now accurately reflects the Canter tech team -- Ms Ahad and CUIP).</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Fermi</h3>
Mon 1/22 w/ Shaz Sara Christie for ~2:00, Fri w/ Shaz &amp; Sara 0:30, total ~2:30
<ul>
	<li>We visited the lab. It's in pretty good shape! Thanks to our earlier efforts, and Paul Constantine's work thereon behalf of Progressive Learning.</li>
	<li>I turned on their main fileserver, at this point mostly used for our Ghost images. The school is not a good candidate for INSTR (no techco), but the FERMIDOM domain does nothing for them and should be turned off. Emailed Paul. He is no longer with PL, but gave us a few helpful notes on the lab setup; and of course he will thus not object to our revisions of some things there.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Ray</h3>
email and online tasks (weekend, mon, thurs, fri) 1:30, onsite Monday 1:45 total 3:15
Email and online
<ul>
	<li>Discussed outside domain names with Gabe, Mary, and Ezra Schwarz (Ray parent / LSC member / web professional). Ezra will transfer registration of ray-school.org to the school c/o Mary and Gabe.</li>
	<li>Checked availability of alternate domains, obtained rayschool.info and ray-school.nfo for expermentation in case Ezra does not soon arrange the transfer or execute the specific DNS change requests I forwarded to him. In the process, learned more about the interface at Network Solutions; also noticed they aren't as fast as Yahoo/Melbourne.</li>
	<li>On the Ray webserver, added an alias so that NEW2006 development folder will also have the name NEW2007.</li>
</ul>
Mon 1/22 w/ Sara for 1:45
<ul>
	<li>Introduced Dawei and Gabe; he will be assisting her in the school site revision</li>
	<li>Showed Gabe WPMU, in comparison with Lyceum. She agrees that the site-admin management tools are easier to use. If the software performance continues to pan out okay, we will plan to transfer the classroom weblog pages to this -- probably Summer, or possibly Spring Break.</li>
	<li>Also I discussed with Gabe the DNS issueswe had been going over in email, and showed her what the domain service panel looks like at domains.yahoo.com. I stopped by the lab, where Sanjaya was implementing a control to put a standard screen background on all the computers. It works through the GPO login scripts (the same ones with the location-based-printing commands). Looks good! After a week of testing and any necessary tweaking, this can be offered to schools with the need and capability to use it, starting with Murray.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Sexton</h3>
~5:00
Tues 1/23 ~4:00
<ul>
	<li>Finished ghost &amp; fixup of NSIT donations from Autumn.</li>
</ul>
Friday w/ Sara, Shaz for ~1:00
<ul>
	<li>Tech Team meeting</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Till</h3>
Friday 1/26 ~1:15
<ul>
	<li>Dropped off CPS W2K CD for Jimmy with Graham</li>
</ul>
<ul>
	<li>Removed power-on password from Dell in 102. Managed to find the jumper instead of just waiting for CMOS to "drain" . Discussed w/ Thurman how these get put on a computer and how to prevent it -- and set a Setup Password (not user Power-on password) for this computer, using the school's Techco password.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
	<li>Thurman found a mouse for it and this computer was good to go, after an INSTR disjoin/rejoin.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Wadsworth</h3>
5:20
Thursday 1/25 w/ Noah for 5:20
<ul>
	<li>Continued in 221. I've gotta say, I'm not really happy with the prospects of this room. The computers are getting quite old and worn down, they have all sorts of odd and interfering programs on them, they've been on the Wadsworth private domain and on INSTR, some have been under Hi-Class management, and now they're expected to function well under wireless.</li>
	<li>Printer setup down the hall in classroom 227</li>
</ul>