Friday, July 18, 2008
I forgot to mention that yesterday I repaired the mounting for the lamp above the kitchen sink. Stretches. Weight training: superslow tricep kickback, superslow modified preacher curl. Usual oatmeal breakfast. To work. Defrosted the fridge over the course of 5 hours today. Received error messages when attempting to start VMware Fusion 1.1.3 today: "Cannot open the disk '/Users /[username] /Library /Application Support /Vmware Fusion /Virtual Machines /Boot Camp /%2Fdev%2Fdisk1 /Boot Camp partition.vmwarevm /Boot Camp partition.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: Resource busy. (OK)". Logged out of OS X, then logged back in—did not fix it. Now when attempting to start Fusion it says: "Cannot open the disk '/Users /[username] /Library /Application Support /Vmware Fusion /Virtual Machines /Boot Camp /%2Fdev%2Fdisk1 /Boot Camp partition.vmwarevm /Boot Camp partition.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: Insufficient permission to access file. (OK)". I get info on the Windows partition and it tells me I only have read access. Restarted the Mac into Boot Camp. After getting the Mac/Windows selector, I got to the login screen. My Apple Mouse worked, but my Apple Keyboard did not, so I was stuck, unable to press Ctrl+Alt+Del. I plugged in a Dell USB keyboard, and that worked—I was able to log in to Windows successfully. I restart the computer, choosing to start in OS X. I realize after a few Google searches that it's normal for the Windows partition to be read only if you chose NTFS when formatting it. Deleted the file called Preferences in my VMware Fusion folder in my Preferences folder in my Library folder. Restarted Fusion—it lets me start VM#1 successfully. I log in as admin and reinstall VMware Tools (choosing Repair) just in case. Settings seemed to have been saved even though I deleted preferences. Shut down the VM. Quit Fusion. Start Fusion. Restart VM#1. All seems well with Fusion now. When it works, it's great. When it doesn't, it's awful. Supp app followup. Just about ready to make it live. Lunch by myself at Andy's: cashew chicken. I did not enjoy my experience eating at Andy's. It's not awful, but there's nothing that makes me want to return. The cashew chicken was the best part of my meal. The egg roll, which was unusually greasy, was the worst. (It was so greasy that when I pressed it with the edge of my fork it caved in like a wet pillow rather than breaking in two.) Service was not rude but not polite, either. Loudly curt was more like it, and I chalked it up to cultural differences. My meal was unusually slow to deliver from the kitchen, especially since there was only 1 other person in the restaurant waiting for food to be delivered, but other patrons who ordered after me got their meals unusually quickly. I must have caught the only cook's break or something like that. My fortune: Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights. Posted new news on the current students page regarding the student lounge wireless upgrade. Posted a corresponding sign in the student lounge. Wrote a long e-mail about 802.11n wireless. Dinner at home with Patrick: pig loin, steamed broccoli, brown rice. Edited 3 party photos. Watched A Scanner Darkly on Netflix DVD at home with Patrick. Dessert: leftover desserts from the dessert party. Stretches. Weight training: superslow tricep kickback (the ones I did this morning were rather half-ass), superslow front raise, reverse wrist curl, superslow dumbbell press. Edited 8 party photos, 71 to go.