Help Desk Report for 8/27 – 9/2 – KCS Technology Department

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PC Routers at HC and ES

Bycollinsr April 26, 2011

Over Spring Break I installed (re-purposed) the old mail and web server as squid caching servers for Hardin Central and Espy. By putting this hardware it place it will: Take the load of routing off of the file servers. Transparently cache data in the buildings. What this means is when a person visits a site,…

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Copier and printer set up for 2016

Bycollinsr August 8, 2016

With the new copiers came new printer drivers, which are now being pushed out to machines. Macintosh desktops and laptops directions To verify you have the updates, run Managed Software Update. Managed Software Update will only work when you are on the school network, so for laptop users, you will not be able to complete…

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Tech report for 10/29/15 – 11/04/15

Bycollinsr November 5, 2015

Tech Department Notes The district is now 1:1 with devices in grades K-12. K-6 classrooms now have a computer for each student. There is still work to do on the logistics of using the technology. The department is in the process of purchasing Reflector licenses for the computers in the district that are used with…

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Shortening web addresses with go.kcs.me

Bycollinsr November 6, 2019

A URL shortener is a service that takes a long web address and makes it shorter and easier to share. If you’ve every used or seen bit.ly or tinyurl.com, you’ve used an URL shortener. I had written an URL shortener several years ago, and remnants of it still exist under kcs.me. It worked ok, but…

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☎️ Google Chrome set up on new machines

Bycollinsr August 4, 2022August 8, 2022

Setting up Chrome on the laptop and desktop There are a few steps that you’ll want to complete to get going with Google Chrome: Putting the icon on your dock, signing in to sync, and setting Google Chrome as your default browser. Once you’ve completed those steps, Chrome will sync your bookmarks and passwords. These…

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Google has just made the Google Drive application (not website) more confusing

Bycollinsr February 4, 2021February 4, 2021

In the beginning, there was the Google Drive app. It ran on your laptop or desktop, syncing your Google Drive files to a folder. For personal Google accounts, the Google Drive app was replaced with Google Drive Backup & Sync while Google Drive File Stream was used for corporate and education accounts. Because Google is…

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