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Friday, March 06, 2009

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• Installed battery in two UPS's
• Installed operating system and office suite (and associated service packs) to a computer for the bible school.
• Discussed changes to computer acceptable use policy for the field.
• Got paperwork ready for a stamp for our car.
• Talked to someone about adding some users to the internet system at the bible school.
• Troubleshoot an antivirus update problem
• Read a DVD in Linux and transfered files enclosed to a USB stick ... disk would not read in Microsoft Vista
• Researching a possible automatic (or pretty simple) backup / synchronizing tool to sync XP and Vista laptops connecting to a network
• It looks like the easy answer is Windows offline files feature. However, I have seen it fail before so I am leery!
• Finishing up bible school computer. This entailed the aforementioned operating system and office suite, but also the French language packs for both of those things, the latest service packs for each of those things AND the latest service packs for the language packs!!! God Bless Microsoft (sarcasm).
• Consulted with another missionary on what do do with his now disabled laptop (bad hard drive)
• The evening project today is setting up a couple of decent powered XP machines (They are the old servers that need to be reconfigured to workstations anyway), to play host to a couple of virtual machines for a couple of proof of concept ideas. The first is a beta test we have been invited to participate in of the Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop. The second project has to do with setting up a virtual SME server for a university ministry here for their computer room.