Technology Services has one mobile device (an ASUS EEE Pad Transformer Android tablet) to lend to a staff member who Doesn’t have a laptop assigned to them as part of their job Doesn’t have a personal laptop Is interested in learning and connecting with other educations professionals through twitter Has access to high speed internet outside […]
Category: General
Printing, the Environment, and Math
We’ve been collecting printing data through a PaperCut printing service installed on all of our print servers in the district since last spring. This data collection has been part of an eventual plan to reduce printing and paper use to reduce the district’s carbon footprint. One of our schools uses a crediting and web based […]
Planned Server Maintenance – March 26 8am-10am
We will be doing some planned server maintenance on March 26 from 8am-10am. Some services will be unavailable district wide for hopefully a short window during that time.
Walk the Solar System – update
The sample sign is done for the SD60 and City of Fort St John Walk the Solar System project. You can view it at http://www.prn.bc.ca/projects/solar/?p=64 After we look at the sign for feedback I’d be hoping to get a class this school year to help with deciding what will go on the signs for the various […]
PLnet Packet Loss Resolution
Our Global incident has now been closed. The root cause was identified as upstream vendor hardware failure. Connectivity over the main link to Victoria was re-establish on Friday and the failing component was replaced Saturday. Monitoring done by SSBC showed no further issue since.
PLNet Global – Packet loss – multiple areas in Northen BC
A reoccurrence of last week issue has been noticed at our Fort St-John RNC Connectivity over our main link to Fort St-John was lost at approximately 5AM this morning. Back up route is in place via Vancouver but clients may experience latency, high packet loss and overall network degradation as we continue to work with […]
Internet Packet Loss
Good Monday morning all. This is to inform you that the performance issues for traffic going through Fort St John’s RNC have been fixed. Following a vendor fibre repair, service was returned to its original route therefore eliminating packet-loss and latency from our circuits. Since Saturday Feb 4th at about 7:00PM, performance should be back […]
Toner Cartridge Recycling
Technology Services as a department policy commits to reducing, reusing, and recycling wherever possible. We currently recycle computers, monitors and peripherals that no longer have a useful life in the district or elsewhere. Schools had been recycling printer toner cartridges themselves or through other schools until recently through a commercial return program. Unfortunately that program has been […]
Internet Degradation
The latest update we have regarding this incident is that the vendor identified a Fiber cut outside of Grand Prairie AB which is affecting connectivity to the Fort St-John RNC. A maintenance crew is working at fixing the problem but no ETR has been made available as of yet and service degradation continues. We will […]
Discussion on Billing – Department Policy
It was requested that we clarify our department policy on billing. The past practice of our department has been to bill costs for work that has been initiated by the school or that is over and above what we would normally provide. Examples of this would be a school asking for new ethernet runs to […]