So, Harry and I are completely wiped out, but it’s been a very productive day. We got the computer lab in Addis almost complete. The only hold-up is that one of the student computers crapped out at the end of the day, and the people we need to get another one out of storage weren’t around to unlock it. Either way, we were too tired to deal with it. The computer lab is called Addis Ababa Computer Training School. The computers themselves came from an organization called Healing Hands, and I think they got them from somewhere else. There are some niggling issues; failed BIOS batteries, the occasional odd OS configuration. So, would you like to know what we did? Of COURSE you would!
·Setup 14 Student PC’s and one Teacher PC.
·Installed Office 2k3 on all systems
·Built network cables for all systems, and configured them on a 10.x.x.x network.
·Built power plant for all PC’s. This was ALL Harry.
·Setup a Windows Workgroup and joined all the computers.
·Created privileged and limited accounts on each machine.
·Created a network share on the Teacher PC, which allows him to share assignments and to accept assignments for turning in without printing things out.
Tomorrow we head for Awassa. It’s a five hour drive, so I expect that to be a long day, since we will begin setting up the computers once we get there. I hope to get more sleep tonight than I did last night…I keep waking up really early. Oh, we came up with nicknames for the team members. We have Bill “Sign the Guestbook” Mara, Matt “Mayor of Sleep” Huddleston, Harry “Discerning Palette” O’Laughlin, and Coy “Makes Me No Nevermind” Thorp.
Until tomorrow, then. Peace.
