Open mouse showing rollers. Photographer John Nash. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Click for larger image.

We are preparing for another group of Senior Aides to start Monday 8/25. We must clean the workstations, which means at least two days of down time per machine due to using Microsoft Windows: the Linux part can be upgraded while the computers are in use and the user doesn’t even notice, but Windows requires individual attention to each and every box one by one for about two days. We also must take apart each PC to share our one DVD drive in order to load the Windows.

The Bridge Room will re-open as soon as we can, but regrettably it will need to stay locked during this process as any use of the computers on the Internet before they are ready would force us to stop and re-do the entire computer again from scratch.

Note: Done. Re-opened 8/25