Thursday, October 3, 2002
Created a local server account for Michael D. Smith, our new Admissions Assistant. Had Rodney create a Meeting Maker account for him. I had trouble setting up his computer. When starting Meeting Maker, the splash screen would appear and then disappear but the Meeting Maker would not appear. No error message occurred. Also, when starting Eudora Pro 5.1, an unhandled exception would occur and a message say a log file was being generated but errors weren't logged to the eudora.log file as expected. The answer to both of these problems was that Michael's account on the computer did not have the correct permissions. I logged in as administrator to his computer, then in Windows 2000's start menu I chose Administrator Tools and then Computer Management and then Local Groups. I selected Power Users then clicked the Add button and added Michael's account name to the Power Users group. This was the first time I encountered the problem because this was the first time I was taking one of these Optiplex GX240 computers away from someone and giving it to someone else. When the computer was new, the choice of whether to make a user a Power User was chosen during the initial OS installation. Now his computer is all set up. Later I updated the Pharmacy Information Day registration form. We only had the original document in PDF which in the past I had edited both in Adobe Illustrator as well as in Adobe Acrobat. This time, however, we needed more extensive changes, so I copied and pasted the text from the PDF into a new Microsoft Word document and laid it out anew with the changes we needed. The EPS header also needed updating, so I spent some time in Adobe Illustrator fixing that—in particular the URL for our program had changed since the last time we used this document. The rest of the day was spent sweeping up various issues that had arisen over the 2 days I was out sick with a sore throat. Lunch at desk: veggie pizza slice. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover shrimp with gemelli and campanelle in a lemon dill sauce.