Activity Diary 3

Date: Tuesday, 9th May, 2023.

Venue : School
Time: Between the hours of 8am -2 pm

Activity: Routine maintenance: WAEC Preparation for Students.

Activity value: Every 1 hour = 1000 = $2.16

Hours spent today = 6 hours =$ 12.96

Terms of Employment: As part of my employment terms, every examination period, the school embarks on routine maintenance and repairs. Some times we meet systems beyond repairs and needs replacement.

Usefulness: To avoid system breakdown during external examination.

Location: Nigeria, Akwa Ibom state.

Troubleshooting: After a years of thorough system check, we have concluded that using the thin client is not the best for us. This is because a lot of factors makes it very fragile and unable to stay as we want.
Resolution: A switch to a wireless network laboratory with laptops was proposed.

Steps Taken:

1. Feasibility study was carried out to determine the type of systems we want. Also model we are getting, the batteries life, RAM Size, Processor speed, hard disk size, screen and others.

2. External mouse bought for students with disability and also those that can't use the mouse effectively.

3. Laptops locks also bought for security.

4. Since we are proposing wireless, a nano station is put in place.

5. A server also so the laptops can communicate with the printer at once.

6. Laptops inspected today.

Why laptops:
We have had thin client and they have proved ineffective because of:
A) Thunderstorm
B) Being very fragile
C) Cable and students getting busy destroying it.
D) Inadequate power supply.
E) High cost of diesel
F) No repairs notion. And lots more.

Why laptops :
A) It can retain power for a while.
B) A smaller generator from the school can power it.
C) Low heat generation etc.

So today, we went to look for our specification, and bank draft issue.
Tomorrow is software installation and setup.