IT Dept - Day 10

1. Brett took us (Mia and I) to a new lab where we were to test more Anti-virus Products. Room 320 I think. I tested "Mcafee" Anti-virus on top of the "Vipre" Anti-virus based on what Brett had wrote on the board as a selection. The ones he had written on the board did not have enough results from.
    I showed Mia Martinez how to create a batch file with 100 website links to load up in a browser by opening it. I told her to use Firefox browser because Internet Explorer crashes it "locks up" when trying to use the batch file. This is the same batch file that Brock taught me last month. It saves much time in having to copy and paste each website link. Mia said she found the batch file idea pretty neat.
    Mia had a problem trying to identify which websites were being blocked or where the virus files were coming from based on the batch file. I told Mia that the File download pop-up windows (Virus Files) list the website of where the virus comes from. She wanted to write down the the Website URL link of the virus that was blocked on the Virus Test worksheet. The Virus Test worksheet is the sheet the IT Dept gave us so they can check our progress.

2. Brett came back into the lab area and told us to go to Lunch. He said to meet up with him at the IT Dept at 1:00 pm to head to the Western Wake Campus.

3. Came back from lunch to head out to the Western Wake Campus. It took us 20 minutes to reach it. We headed to Room 254 because their was a printer problem. Room 254 was the Open computer lab. Brett restarted the printer and and reset the printer settings. He turned on a computer to do a printer test. The printer was fixed.

4. Went to the library to install software. Brett Told Mia and I to turn on all the computers so he could access them all remotely through one computer. The remote software he used was called ALTUIS. Brett then said to open up "MY COMPUTER" and type "//CETUS" in the address bar. Press Enter. Open "Express" folder and copy A-Client for XP to desktop to install.
Run the "Install" batch file to install A-Client software automatically. This was the client software to ALTUIS, not the server software. The server software was on Brett's office computer back at the IT Dept. He logged into his own computer from the computer #1 at the library.

5. On computer #1, Brett installed Kurzweil 3000. Kurzweil 3000 is the software that students with disabilities used to log-in to get help. A scanner was next to the computer, which was used to scan textbook pages and the computer reads them out loud over the speakers. Then Brett installed JAWS, which was the scanning software for the textbooks. The last thing Brett did was install Real-speak. Real-speak is software that is the automated computer voice that talks back to users through the computer speakers. Brett tested all the software to make sure it was working properly.