detalles
ok, today, I have to admit, I’m feeling just a tad bit overwhelmed by the details I’ve been absorbing this week. Luckily, my predecessor did an fabulous job of setting up this lab so that it should be easy to maintain and troubleshoot. I just don’t know if my sponge-mind absorbed it all. I’m sort of trusting that if I just sit in this room long enough, I will start to morph into a supertechie like our system admin guys. One day, I’ll suddenly start talking in techie-code and they’ll understand me…
Played with the DiLL software this week; got the login LDAP authentication thing squared away so I can actually get on the lab’s computers now; figured out the IP assignments; learned the basics of Apple Remote Desktop; automated the locking and unlocking of screens in the lab– a cool little desktop gadget the teachers are going to love; with a little help from my friends, set up iTunes so that it can stream audio to more than 5 users; set up the AppleTV; got a very basic handle on how the X Serve is set up; got iTunes RSS working, so that faculty can stream content from the media library on their web pages & blogs for students; started to set up the Mac minis– need to get those all imaged before school starts; started to get into the nuances of volume control, which surprisingly, is one of the hardest things to manage in the lab; learned a bit about WorkGroup manager and permissions and learned some unix commands and wow… that’s where I started to teeter on the brink of my previous knowledge. So I’ve got a lot of fiddling to do still before I’ll feel like I’ve got things sort of under control.
In other news…I cleaned out the window ledge over the hallway lockers and got rid of junk that was left over from original construction. My feng shui sensor has descended to code yellow and I am breathing better now. ;-)
I also researched more this week about technology in schools, language acquisition, virtual realities. I entered Second Life for the first time. That was trippy. But more on that later…
