<strong>Your Name: Tom Glanz</strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2013/01/24

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

<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>4

<strong>The School: </strong>Burke

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

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<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>

This week I talked with the school clerk Ms. Ferguson about starting an asset registry.  We haven't started work on this yet, but we devised a system for doing so: a log book will be in the office and we'll simply do an audit of all the laptops (Maybe workstations too) to make sure we have a good handle on what we have, and what damage exists.

Additionally, I've been compiling computers/hardware to be disposed of - they're currently in room 302 but will be taken down to 102 next week.  For the most part these are PCs with damaged hard drives, and we've extracted the memory for further use.

Ms. Biggs also asked that I start working in room 302 and setting up parent computers.  There's a blue bin in here with a number of usb and old-style keyboards as well as a few mice.  I've saved those, but I imagine we don't need the old ones.  One parent computer is now set up (a Dell optiplex 330) with a CRT monitor and it is online.  I've gotten it mostly up and running like those in the lab, but there are multiple problems software wise I'll try to get fixed next week.  I installed Chrome from CPS, for instance, but it simply won't run.  I tried installing it from the normal site and the same problem exists.  I added it to the domain, named it properly and will let a full virus scan go while I'm gone.

The other computers in this room were very old IBMs all with problems I couldn't seem to fix.  One completely unresponsive, one without an OS/nonresponsive half the time, and another that wouldn't produce a display on any working monitor.  They're stacked to be taken down to the disposal room.

After I get hopefully one more parent computer up and running, I discussed with Russ and Ms. Biggs about going through the other rooms on the 3rd floor and compiling tech assets to either be disposed of or saved. 

I'll confer with Russ about which might be useful and not.

<strong>Other bits of wisdom:</strong>

For those of you on UChicago's campus often, be wary of the elevators in Pick and Beecher/Green Hall.  I got stuck in one for about 20-30 minutes on Tuesday (hence my reduced hours this week!)  Have a good weekend!