Monday, October 3, 2005
Breakfast at home: english muffin, sausage. Today at work we celebrated Kristina's birthday. I guess she had called in sick or something—she didn't make it to her own surprise party. Joel brought cut fruit with a cool whip and yogurt dip, Cindy brought bagels, I brought Odwalla and made a poster, James made a drawing of Kristina to sit in her place while we celebrated. Resolved a problem for a student in which IE would not start correctly. Upon launching, it gave an error message: "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library - Runtime Error! - Program C:\Program Files\Internet explorer\iexplore.exe - This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information.)" I found the answer on a number of web sites including geekstogo forums and forums.microsoft.com: uninstall Google Toolbar (and reinstall with the newest version if desired). Resolved a different problem with another student's laptop: Her Toshiba laptop would not enter standby or hibernate correctly. From a link found on williamaford.com, I found Bart's Preinstalled Environment Builder which enabled me to boot into BartPE off the CD-ROM and then delete the offending file found at c:\windows\system32\geedb.dll. How did I know geedb.dll was the file? Hijack This found it—the blog entry called "Laptop doesn't standby or hibernate" and the comment called "Finding infected DLL's" on David Buck's blog helped immensely. Lunch: take out from Panda Express with Joel. His fortune: You have a captivating style all your own. My fortune: A cheerful letter or message is on its way to you. Chatted with Lucia about passwords for the staff portal and about our password manager program and about InDesign. Updated 2 listservs with a student's changed e-mail address. One student, AL, bought me a Lindt bittersweet chocolate bar for helping me fix her laptop. James gave me a bag of old clothes which didn't fit him anymore to see if Patrick or I would fit them. In general, I believe it's not worthwhile to go through clothes given up by a gay man, but he says they just didn't fit him anymore. Did some catching up on e-mail. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftovers.