Again with the Intern thing

Today was the first day that I was actualy able to do some of the work needed. We got our list of the programs we need to test, where as in the past we were just guessing on the programs that needed to be tested. Before I could start on the programs I made sure all of the computers were updated and then I put a copy of all the programs needed on the computers. Once I looked at the list I found that it was not exactly what I was thinking it would be. Yes it tells the programs needed to use, but the vast majority of them require us to have another person come over to test them since we do not have the ability to do the testing. So the rest of my time was pretty much taken up with trying to get ahold of the people, which is not going well so far. It was lunch time for most people by this time, so most people were not at their desks, so we took to just emailing everybody for the help, and so far we have only had 2 people email us back, so fun times are ahead.

Not Gonna Do It

I ended up not going to my time for work today since I pulled a muscle in my left shoulder. I was contemplating going, but seeing as how a slight movement could send a sharp shooting pain along my neck, arm, shoulder, etc., I decided that I did not want to see how fun that would be while driving. So I stayed in bed staring at the ceiling trying my best to move as little as possible for the day, how fun.

Another Day......

I started my day simply making sure that all of the computers were updated, since it was the week of "Patch Tuesday". I got all of the computers updated and I was looking at our Excel sheets to see what needed to be done, but before I could get to anything Mike came and got me and needed me to look at some faculty and student computers. There were three in total. The first was a laptop which would not keep the correct time, and it seemed like it was resetting itself as well. I concluded that the BIOS battery needed to be replaced, but I was not allowed to open the laptop to get to it, nor did I have a multimeter to confirm my conclusion. The next computer was a students Dell tower, which had some new parts come in. I am not sure why, but there was a lot of parts that came in, such as 2 sticks of RAM, a videocard, and a soundcard. Of all of those parts, only one of the original sticks of RAM was bad, so I am assuming somebody ordered all the new parts they thought could be bad. The last computer was another student tower and it was having a backup done of all the files. The drive in the students computer was too big for the drives in the room, so Mike gave me an external drive to put the files on. According to one of the sheets with the computer there were viruses as well, but my time was done before the backup was complete so I could search for them.

Day 5

This post was really supposed to have been done on the 25th of Feb, but seeing as how I forgot to do it then I will do it now.

For this day we finally had all 4 of our computers, one of them had pretty much only Win 7 64 installed, so I went and installed the rest of the programs onto it that we needed and got all the updates. When two other members of the group arrived about an hour later we ran the rest of the CAT5 cables so we could get onto the Internet with all 4 computers. I ended up getting more programs installed on one of the other computers that did not have all of them on, and then all of us ran Sophos checks on the computers.