Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Organized small hardware parts. Updated print versions of secret documents. Updated our hardware inventory chart. Recorded some hardware serial numbers that were missing. Linkchecking. Joel brought in St. Patrick's Day cookies and candies wrapped in a festive cellophane bag. Small change to the BSIC page. Small updates to the computer security section. Added names to a listserv for Chris C. Chatted with Chris C about schoolwide computer support issues. Filed receipts. Lunch with Joel, Melissa, and Ena: Milberry Union food court. I got Panda Express; Joel, Melissa, and Ena got Mexican food at Carmelina's. My fortune: You have an ability to sense and know higher truth. Upgraded Ena's computer from Win 2000 to Win XP. Met with James to discuss forthcoming schedule and needs for admissions Web stuff. Worked late getting Ena's computer working. Had trouble with PharmAdMIT 2004 which would let me run it as admin but not logged in as Ena. I logged in as admin and manually applied permissions for her, but it still didn't work. Took the 8:30 PM bus home. Bus has been good (on time) lately. Today it was a few minutes late, but it was no big deal. Dinner at home by myself: leftovers from last night. Patrick went to a reading for Karl Soehnlein and Tennessee Jones at the library this evening. Coded the last bits of Lodestar except for the home page. Lately I've been getting an error message whenever I try to click a PLAY button from Shoutcast: "Internet Explorer cannot download ...pls?rn=6807&file=filename.pls from www.shoutcast.com. Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later." This problem has been happening for several days. Further testing revealed that the problem does not happen for me at work and that the problem does not happen in Netscape 7.1. There's a known patch (Q816868) but I already have it installed and attempting to reinstall it gives this error: "This update requires Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1 to be installed. (OK)" but I see in the About box that SP1—and Q816868—are both already installed. Found the answer on www.asic.gov.au and resolved it by unchecking "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" in Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Security.