Thursday, January 13, 2005

Worked with Kraig K to join our new server to the campus domain. Chatted with James about the supp app e-forms. Ran Windows Update for nearly all the computers. Set up Chris with Outlook instead of Eudora for e-mail. There's some problem with Out box dates if you import directly from Eudora to Outlook, so I did the workaround: Import from Eudora to Outlook Express then from OE to Outlook. I also had to uninstall Eudora and reinstall it because we installed Eudora in a location other than the default, but Outlook and OE only look at the default installation folder for Eudora. It took a couple hours, but I finally got everything in to Outlook. I hand-migrated his only sig file. After all that was done, he had a 1 GB PST file, so I broke out the older mail into archive PST files, then compacted everything—much better now. Gave him a mini-tutorial and checked that Eudora is also still working in case he needs it. Worked on supp app e-forms. Chatted online with Chris De Lay. Home. Pizza and tempura shrimp for dinner by myself. Patrick met with Elsa this evening. She gave him enthusiastic feedback about the first chapter of Second Island. Fixed a problem in which my server backups weren't accessible to Iomega Automatic Backup Pro. The error message I got from IABP was error code 0x20000026. There was no text explanation for the error code, so I got online yesterday with Iomega technical support. Kenneth eventually helped me out in a roundabout way. He also gave me IABP 3.1. They still show only IABP 2.1.0 on their support site, which I thought was weird. I asked him when 3.0 was first released, and he said, "That's a good question. I'm not completely sure." which I didn't believe for one second. It sounds to me like Iomega routinely beta-tests their new versions of IABP on customers who have problems they can't figure out. The backups accessibility problem was resolved by using Webmin to set the "Force Unix user" field to the appropriate user. Tested IABP, it works. So I guess I'm pretty close to start repopulating data in the journal to the live site. Thanks to Slace, aka aazzap, for the answer. I also figured out how to unhide dot files in Samba. Attempted to resolve problems with kernel rebuilding from yesterday. Set up daily backup script to be more secure by using a special account just for backups.