<strong>Your Name: </strong>Patrick Collins<strong></strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2013/06/13

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> TF

<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>10? Maybe

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

<strong>URL(s)</strong>: 10.34.50.187/printers2.php (internally from Ray)

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

Today and yesterday I've been taking care of some end of year housekeeping stuff. I cleared out all of the machines in the computer lab that I fixed, organized them in the IMF room, and took anything that needed to be thrown out down to the basement. I labeled anything in the IMF room whose contents isn't obvious from a quick look, which should substantially reduce the amount of time spent poking around for things next year.

In terms of the printers, I've logged (almost) all of the printers in teacher's classrooms. I made a little website that lets you register the network name of a printer and the computer its attached to. It can be used to generate a script that creates the .vbs file with the right info filled in, and saves it in the correct place on your system depending on whether its run on an XP or windows 7 machine. It works really nicely, and I've had no issues with it apart from computers that haven't been given permissions to add network printers. It works in every case where manually writing a .vbs script works, anyway. I think it was a worthwhile investment of time. It's running on machine that I'm currently typing this from, which is running Ubuntu server with the i3 window manager. Since no one other than myself uses it, I suppose I'll shut it down when I leave Ray today.

I sent an email to Mitch (I haven't heard from you in a few days -- I hope your leg is okay!) about getting Ray's printer issues resolved. Every teacher is using a very old, nearly-dead printer in their room and complaining that it doesn't work, but there is at least one very high capacity printer on each floor -- the office one on the 1st floor, room 213 on the 2nd floor, and room 306 on the 3rd floor. There are also a few unused high-capacity printers sitting around. If I had more time at Ray, my next mission would be to get all of the teachers set up and instructed how to print from these. Unless Ray would like to pull me in for a weekend some time, I suppose that will wait until next September.

Speaking of coming in for a weekend, I spoke to Ms. Cobb about the valuable but unusable hardware sitting in the IMF room -- old projectors, a speaker that works with hearing aids, etc. I think there's something like $300 of stuff in there, if someone had the patience to sell it on Ebay. If it's allowed by the rules, I could come in and deal with listing it and selling it for something like 1/3rd of the net profit (I will no longer be being paid by CUIP, so I doubt it would work out to much more than $10/hr). The money could be used to buy enough new printers to meet Ray's current need.

Also, I was poking around the server room and I noticed a random machine in the rack with a mouse and a keyboard connected to it. I took out the monitor from the webserver and plugged it in -- it seems to be stuck in a permanent loop of turning on, discovering that one of its fans has died, restarting, etc. I don't know what it's supposed to be doing, since it's not either one of the servers. I think I saw another random blade-type machine in the rack whose purpose I'm also unsure of. It looks like a pretty nice machine, anyway, and it could probably do with being repaired and put to use. It's an HP ProLiant DL320.

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Anyway, I've thoroughly enjoyed my time at Ray and I hope to return next year in the fall. Have a great summer everyone!