Monday, March 25, 2002
Today Randy from Unisys came to fix Kristina's Dell Optiplex GX240. The Dell technician I spoke to on the phone Thursday suspected a defective motherboard or power supply. Randy replaced both, and now all is well, including the CD-ROM drive I installed. Afterward, I again tried installing Sophos on that computer, but still got the same error I had before: "Sophos Setup. SWEEPSRV.SYS Could not install service., Error: 0. (OK)" This error does not appear to be documented anywhere, so I sent a message in to Sophos support. Microsoft released another critical update for Windows 2000; this time it's the "Java Applet Can Redirect Browser Traffic" security vulnerability. The update prevents "a maliciously crafted Java program ('applet') from silently re-routing all browser traffic to the applet's host without the user's knowledge." Thanks, Microsoft for writing insecure code in the first place. (Ah, what's new?) I got 4 of our 9 computers updated. I troubleshooted the problem with PharmAdMIT that Melissa had been having. The suggestions Ed had given us were not working, so I sent him a message with the results. Ena gave me some small changes for the Web site. Patrick had to deal with inspectors who had come to inspect the condition of our house because our landlord is selling the place. Patrick was annoyed because they'd wait outside and talk on the steps while he was trying to work. Or they'd come in to do their inspection and say it will only take a few minutes but it really took much longer. Patrick made pork meat loaf, sweet potatoes, and steamed broccoli for dinner. Patrick and I made cupcakes for my potluck at work tomorrow. I went to bed early while Patrick wrote and read Jason's story, woke up at 3:30, went back to bed at 4:30, and woke up at 7:30.