What’s Left? Return and Ping First?
Update–We think we fixed one computer at 7pm.
Also-we thought we’d meet Tuesday at 7pm. What are we doing then? Loading up computers for Wednesday delivery? Are we going to be able to ping? Perhaps our main priority is to make sure whatever working computers we have can network okay, and that the printer and scanner work before we leave.
Martin helped us prioritize what we have to do before we pack up everything for the trip Thursday at 5pm. We need to consider what NM wants and what resources we have. For instance, if we don’t get all computers working, that’s okay. Ideally, yes, we will try to get all the computers working and the software loaded but we were thinking that the highest priority would be to make sure that whatever working computers we have are networked (e.g. 12 of 15 is okay) because there is no guarantee that we will have internet at NM. Also, we need to make sure we have drivers for the printer. So we played with the list:
>- Return computers to Pnet so we can ping them.
>- Test for networking
> – Install network card drivers if necessary
>- Set up scanner and printer on one comp (We can do it in East St. Louis, cat we?) –perhaps make sure printer/scanner is okay before we go?
>- Look into networking the printer
>- Fix remaining comps and install software
>- Install educational/office software (I’ll try to make the CD tonight)
>- Recommend a monitoring software