Archive for the 'Work' Category

lab usage stats

« 8 March 2005 | 23:23 | Work | No Comments »

I’m not sure if I can take credit for the idea, as it was envisioned some time ago. Basically, each lab machine in the residential labs uses active desktop to display a small ‘lab notices’ page which allows us to easily post important lab related info, like when MyWestern goes down.
So this has [...]



printer stats

« 2 March 2005 | 17:27 | Work | No Comments »

I spent some time today working on a nice backend interface for managing the SNMP print monitoring we do. Now it’s a breeze to add new printers for monitoring, as well as configure things like duplex support. Now that the backend is complete, I can tie in my original printer stats code to use the [...]



new wad on the block

« 9 February 2005 | 20:53 | Work | No Comments »

I’ve got my first official project as a ResTek WAD (Web Application Developer for those who don’t know the lingo)
One of our consultants did an awesome job translating the registration and quarantine pages into japanese. Now they need to be integrated and tested before the new exchange students arrive in a few weeks. Definetly looking [...]



Fun with graphs

« 8 January 2005 | 13:55 | Work | 3 Comments »

Thanks to the snow and the resulting closure of the school, we now have status info for our lab printers. With all that free time friday, I started pulling snmp data from the printers, allowing us to monitor any aspect of them we want. Obviously, the most important to us is the toner and paper [...]



BartPE is neato

« 20 December 2004 | 23:17 | Work | 1 Comment »

Today I got a chance to play around with BartPE; a very cool tool for assembling a WindowsPE environment from a standard Windows XP disc. I was very impressed with the functionality that the WinPE provides, and it really got me thinking about how we could potentially leverage this when helping students with virus or [...]