Thursday, May 6, 2010

Mrs. Peterson Help-Deep freeze updates

Where at first my jobs for Mrs. Peterson consisted of muscle labor, carrying projectors, ladders, and other physical activities this project was different. The computers in the school run on a system called Deep Freeze which stops things from being downloaded onto the hard drive and allows the computer to have a fresh start every day. Because things cant be downloaded while its "frozen" no programs can be updated on a daily basis. Mrs. Peterson showed me how to run these programs and update them when the deep freeze was down, giving me a job that was much more on the technical side than lifting ladders. To me, this was a big step towards a much bigger involvement in the Tech. department and another step closer to learning more things about computers. In order to update the programs accurately, not only did the Deep Freeze have to be down but there was a system to the updates, an order in which the computer had to first be thawed, then re-booted, all programs had to be updated, and then re-booted again for the updates to take effect. I enacted this system to all the computers in the computer lab, which took a considerable amount of time yet to me was quite the experience in computer learning. The fact that a computer can actually be in a stasis where it can run but cant keep information on the hard drive was new to me and since Mrs. Peterson was allowing me to work on thawed computers helped show me she trusts me. Through teamwork Mrs. Peterson and I worked though and finished the updating of all the computer systems, resulting in freshly updated systems capable of working even better for the future.

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