So today I got about 1k calls before the first bell had rung. Word was hanging up all over campus.
I thought it was the virus scan, but no dice. I thought it was an update pushed down from downtown - no dice.
As it turns out, all the printers in my print list were error’d out. [...]

Had a run in with a teacher who needed to know why I’d removed the ability for users to log into the network without their Novell logins. In essense, why’d I get rid of the Workstation Only button?
#1 - I don’t work for you. I don’t owe you any answers. Take your questions to the [...]

It’s funny how things cascade out of control. Our school was hit by lightning. It fried an archaic, windows 95 machine which was running out time clocks. No problem, I figured I’d knock together a small php/mysql based timeclock based on one I’d found on the ‘Net. My hack is working in testing on my [...]

uh-oh, I staged 20 laptops for my vice principal to take to a conference. We had some bumps, but everything imaged ok. Then, while verifying my fix, I realized that there was no way for anyone to log into the computer sans Novell. My updates had removed the option to log into the workstation. How [...]

I have a really great principal. He’s provided me with all the tools I need to do my job and then he’s gotten out of my way. I appreciate that. Like today:
We have a photo lab with 24 network drops. Unfortunately, all the drops are along the same wall and complete inaccessible to to most [...]