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<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2013/03/04

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

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

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

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The biggest issue of this week is a printer in room 208 that refuses to be set up. The problem is as follows:

I was called in by the teacher because the internet connection on one of her computers had stopped working. The computer was connected to the wireless. When I checked it, it wasn't able to find Google, but it could find //ray-adm01, so it seemed that it was able to connect to the network but not the internet. Additionally, the computer's connection to a printer in the same room had died. This made me think that there was an issue with the way Ray's wireless network was set up and out of my hands. I have no idea what would cause a problem like that, especially since other computers connected to the wireless nearby didn't have any problems.

In about half an hour, the computer had gotten the internet back, but still couldn't find the printer. It was connected to the network and could see lots of machines on the my computer -&gt; network display. However, it couldn't find either of the other two machines in the same room (both of which have printers connected to them). It also wasn't able to add the printer when I used the printer-computer's IP rather than its name. I'm told that Russ took a look at it today and hopefully he fixed it. I can't imagine why a computer would be able to get on the work but not find a particular handful of machines. I suppose it must be some peculiarity of the CPS network; any input is appreciated.

Another note -- this teacher has four computers in her room with two printers attached to them. This is excessive. One of them sits in the corner unused, as does the second printer.

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Also, I've been trying to fix a particular computer that I found in the back. It looks like it was a donor of some sort -- a Dell Precision 490. I can't get it working because it refuses to recognize any of the RAM that I give it. Poking around the internet (<a href="http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=Precision%20WorkStation%20470&amp;pl=Dell&amp;cat=RAM">http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=Precision%20WorkStation%20470&amp;pl=Dell&amp;cat=RAM</a>) suggests that the machine requires ECC memory, which I don't think that we have. What should happen to this machine? It's not broken enough to throw out, but we can't fix it. It also seems silly to let it sit in the IMF room for another two years. Thoughts?