<strong>Your name: </strong>Adam Shaw

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2012/05/3

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> Week 5 M Th, Week 6 Th (I was sick on Monday)

<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 4, 2.5

<strong>The School: </strong>Robinson

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

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

Bugs, bugs, bugs. At one point last week, I was asked by someone at the front desk to help with a computer they were trying to set up with a scanner. The trouble was that she couldn't install the software without the techco account, and the techco password wasn't working. It turned out this computer was still set to the generic techco password, rather than the school-specific word. I wonder how long that computer had been like that. Additionally, I looked at the new computers in the library, and a couple of them were not automatically changed to the school-specific one, so I manually changed them. It's a shame that a decent amount of problems that the teachers have with technology just come from them not having information such as the generic techco password, or assuming that the computers were set up a certain way when they weren't.

Also on the bugs theme, I installed a new computer in one of the rooms, and the standard account script didn't work (there seemed to be some .exe files missing), so I had to manually add the techco account and remove the password-less Administrator account. And today, I and Tremayne spent a good amount of time trying to install the driver software for a printer, failing repeatedly. It seems like the printer was just not responding. We replaced it with another one that wasn't being used in the library and it worked fine.

Also, it seems like the computers in the library might actually get used now. Today was the first time I saw a non-empty browser history on one of the computers in there. Exciting stuff -- especially since these computers are much better than the ones in the computer lab. Speaking of the library, we also put up some signs about how to log into the Windows 7 computers, and we put labels on the computers and monitors.

<strong>Thought for the week: </strong>A nod to the nabir is better than wink to the wabsanti