Thursday: I came in late today because Austin wasn't feeling well this morning. I did get here in time to listen to a 10 o'clock webinar by DESE--yippee! We will finish up the computer building today and/or the Cat5 making. Someone asked me if Cat5 and ethernet were the same and my answer is yes. The terms are used interchangeably.
I want to stress to you all how important it is to use your brain and to try to figure out problems. There is almost always more than one way to fix a problem with a computer and software. The only exception is a bad piece of hardware. Here is an example: I sent Caleb up to the Rock House this morning to install a printer. He tried the normal way of adding printer and then typing in the ip address. The IP couldn't be found. Caleb did try rebooting, checking another pc to make sure that it was the correct ip for the printer etc... (good job Caleb) So I had to think of another way to do this. I went to the website of the copy machine (sharp) and downloaded an installation package for that printer. I unzipped the download and found the setup icon and installed from there. (I did ping the printer first to make sure they could talk to each other.) Tada! it worked! Please think of it as a puzzle and you have to figure out what does work when the normal doesn't. Have a good day!
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Mrs. Kempker was gone so I studied a bit and checked out how everyone was doing on there computer dissemblance.
tried to get a laptop to print up at the rock house. At first I had to get it connected to the network which took about ten min. and three different spots in the switch and from their i could not correctly form a tcp/ip port but was able to determine that the problem was with the laptop and not the printer, then class was over
worked on making my cat-5 cable had trouble getting it to work ugh.
checked projector lightbulb at elem, fixed some CAT 5 cables, finished up my computer
mis kempker wasnt here and there was nothing for me to do so worked on homework
Delivered some extension cords to Mrs. Bax for the ncomputing station. Came back and worked on my cat5 cable.
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