Author Archives: nhelregel

Yesterday Abbie and Sierra primed all of our lovely workstations so they could be ready to go for the technology install. That’s some prime priming! Today we finished updating the documentation and built cables before moving all of the computers … Continue reading →

Rachelle spent last night setting up our external hard drive, because she is amazing. Today we came in (despite the call of gorgeous weather) and accomplished the following: Set up bookmarks on Firefox for educational games, information resources, and multimedia … Continue reading →

Today we accomplished the following: Scanned all computers with AVG and Adaware and set up automatic scans Configured AVG, Adaware, and Windows Update to do automatic updates on all computers Set up network connections between all computers Uninstalled unnecessary programs … Continue reading →

Yesterday, while Rachelle was busy as a bee in the lab working on our computers, Sierra, Abbie, and I spent the day at Martin’s workshop. We built 6 wooden workstations and Martin, Sierra, and Abbie transported them to the site … Continue reading →

Today we accomplished the following: Completed installation of Windows security updates on all computers. Installed Firefox, Skype, OpenOffice, Adobe Reader, Scribus. Ran into some trouble with Scribus, as it prompted us to also install a Ghostscript, which we eventually did. … Continue reading →

We accomplished the following today: We replaced the broken seventh computer and installed Windows XP, the service packs, and the internet driver on it. We achieved internet access for the original 6 computers and installed Firefox. We downloaded and installed … Continue reading →

Today we successfully installed Windows XP on 6 of our 7 computers. We also installed all of the service pack updates and set up the appropriate user accounts. We found out that one of our computers probably has a video … Continue reading →