Entries Tagged as ‘problems’

April 27, 2009

Viruses and Plagues

Two things this morning:

Just a reminder to all of you who work with the public computers to wash your hands frequently, cover your cough, don’t come in to work if you have a fever, and don’t touch your face.
The Conficker virus has basically gone live and is enslaving millions of computers as we speak. This [...]

March 17, 2009

Some updates to the TeamSpot installation

I have made some changes to the signage and equipment in the TeamSpot area in order to help answer some questions that students have raised about this service.
Can I play a DVD?
Yes, simply check out a pair of headphones (or the multi-line headphone jack and several sets of headphones for groups) and the keyboard and [...]

October 8, 2008

Slow Printing of PowerPoint in the library

I’ve gotten word that there’s a PowerPoint presentation on Blackboard that is printing really, really slowly. I haven’t really “gotten word” I mean to say that I’ve seen it happen. So, I did a little testing and feel like the most likely culprit is the fact that some of you are printing the document in [...]

October 2, 2008

Back to Business

Jeeze, I just notice that it’s been almost a month since my last LIT blog. Well, I’ve been busy! I’ve been working on the Phase 3/4 planning, ordering staff computers (which took way longer than expected because of the  local interpretation of the Governor’s directive), upgrading student computers, overseeing the Pharos Printer changeover, changing the [...]

August 4, 2008

Woman Rocks out a Library?

The Distant Librarian today posted a light hearted link to a video of some lady dancing at one of the public terminals in some library somewhere.
I have to say, it’s either a fake or it’s a person with a real serious mental problem.  Either way, it’s not really that funny and I’m glad our “campers” [...]

February 4, 2008

Wireless network problems

Last night we had two users who had problems with their wireless connection. Basically, the laptop would show a strong signal and a positive connection, the software determining the connection was shut off, firewalls were open, the systems were getting an IP address, they were able to ping out, but they were not able [...]