Since we are going\nto Chesongoch on Tuesday, we first concentrated on making the\nnotebooks and two barebone desk computers work. Whereas the notebooks\nwent smoothly with Ubuntu 18.04 (with a little \u201cforcepae\u201d as\nmentioned before) there was a problem with the ACER monitors which,\ncontrolled by the barebones, showed an unreadable image on the\nscreens. We were already exchanging the grub.cfg file of the new\nversion with the old version on HP’s advice when the computer that\nWerner and Michael had already installed via network showed a perfect\npicture under the circumstances. When we finally found out that the\ncomputer could only be activated with a PS2 keyboard instead of a USB\none, everything went according to plan. Computers are just \u201cmagic\nbags\u201d. So we could take three more computers from the \u201cinfirmary\u201d\nto the computer room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IT has captured this\nschool, too. Lines for surveillance cameras are being installed and\nthe school will also be equipped with WLAN. It is expected that\nevery new year will start with tablet computers – in a few years the\nnumber of users will increase from 150 to over 500. Therefore, a\ncompany was commissioned to install a sufficient WLAN for 1000\npupils. Then all we\u2019ll have to do is attach our server to the\nrouter and you can read Wikipedia on the tablet, exchange emails and\nmuch more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We experienced\nanother eye-opener. While trying to rescue the beamer bulb of the\ndefective device from the computer room (we had only had it brought\nto Ruaraka via Tutzing last year), problems with maintaining\ntechnical equipment became obvious. Someone had pressed the spare\nbulb into the socket in such a way that the connecting part had\nbroken off. In addition we found that the line for the fan was cut\nthrough and then wrapped in insulating tape. The attempt to solder\nthe wires together again failed because there was no soldering iron.\nThe electrician called in promised to get one quickly. The question\nas to whether he could handle soldering irons for electronic\ncomponents was answered that he had never soldered before. It is\nfrustrating when the material is handled in this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The number of\nhardware to be scrapped or sold has already increased considerably.\nMost of them are partly cannibalized desktops. Some old monitors can\nbe found on the „for sale“ list. We will reimport the still\nusable RAM bars and 64bit CPUs. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Saturday a movie\nnight for the boarding school students was scheduled at short notice.\nThere were \u2018Beauty & Beast\u2019, \u2018Back to the Future\u2019 and\n\u2018Harry Potter\u2019 to choose from. \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 was shown\nfollowing a vote among the students. And to the delight of Michael &\nWerner, the audio system worked perfectly this time – even though it\ntook some searching for the right connection cable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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