December 5th

20 hours work.

This week was some more of the same stuff. I ended up going back to mathis lab and completing my work over there. I had to grab one computer so mark could help me out with making symantec work on it again. A day later he got it working. I didn't care to ask what was wrong with it because i had wrestled with that symantec earlier. That pretty much completed mathis lab work.

I did go back to irving 2 for patricia and her share. Her share didn't work because she had this stupid novell software that replaced the windows login program. I'm guessing that was the problem. I ended up ignoring the windows share problem because it was dumb. I did try logging in repeatedly from one computer to the one with the share. But it was dodgy. Pretty much the computer with the share was perfectly fine and her novelled one was most definitely the problem.

She's not going to do anything to fix the problem which means in this situation i can't do anything to fix the problem. I did show her some alternatives like removable storage and other stuff like access the computer with the share from a completely different computer. I left the ticket open and went to forget about it.

Mark had given me a mission too. It was a list of some 20 odd printers that i had to download vista 64 bit drivers for each and every one. It took forever and a couple of days because downloading from hp is very slow. For most printers the vista 64 driver was the exact same as the xp 64 driver. I had no qualms about this, it's x86-64, and if hp has the xp 64 driver up for download when i clicked vista 64 then hp must know it'll work. Many other printers had the stupid universal driver up for download. I also had to google search to see if pcl5, pcl6, or postscript was better than each other. Pcl 5 seemed like it sucked, and postscript didn't look like it'd be good for fast printing environments like over here. So i downloaded pcl 6 drivers when i was faced with making a choice.

Mark was happy that all of the printers did have 64 bit drivers. Then he went on to install them.