Today 3rd of March 2007, heavy rain poured over Port Vila. The youths were tasked to test and report on FSP Vanuatu old computers and other pieces of devices gathered by FSP for assessment.
First they gathered and arranged all parts and pieces in order so they can be easily identified. Then assembled some bases and tested them if they could work so they can use them to test other parts and devices (e.g pci cards, printers, monitors, etc…). There were no working base to start but fortunately they have a laptop, and whatever device that can be connected to a laptop were tested.
FSP provided some training materials and during the device tests, more parts and name were explained. The youths were introduced to Microsoft Office programs, and they created a table in excel to list the items they have tested.
Col1 – Item #
Col2 – Hardware/Device Type
Col3 – Brand/Model/Serial
Col4 – Status
They tested 6 monitors and 4 printers, and took turns filling up their test result table in excel.
Over the weekend, some were provided laptops for exercises.
Thank you to FSP Vanuatu (Sue Sursham) and our bus driver (Mala).
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Training - Basic OS and Desktop
On the 1st of March 2007, 6 youths gathered around our training place and we had some hardware revision. We run through some basic hardware topics with new members before we started off our next lessons.
Then they were shown how Operating System loads. Our demo OS were Mandriva Linux and Windows XP. Also shown around a desktop and locate areas like main menu, icons, taskbar, etc… and in windows, my documents, my computer, start button. The difference between OS and other programs were explained. They were also shown computer drives that corresponds to the hardware devices attached and how to access them. Also the changes that happen when USB drives are plugged.
They took turns playing inside windows going through my computer, my documents, my music, playing music in windows media player and how to start a program by going through start->programs etc...
Then they were shown how Operating System loads. Our demo OS were Mandriva Linux and Windows XP. Also shown around a desktop and locate areas like main menu, icons, taskbar, etc… and in windows, my documents, my computer, start button. The difference between OS and other programs were explained. They were also shown computer drives that corresponds to the hardware devices attached and how to access them. Also the changes that happen when USB drives are plugged.
They took turns playing inside windows going through my computer, my documents, my music, playing music in windows media player and how to start a program by going through start->programs etc...
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