Monday, September 8, 2008
Breakfast: granola and cherry yogurt. Helped Patrick set up his music keyboard temporarily in the living room. Work. Posted new drafts of the fall schedules. Cardkey lock access for custodial service workers. Began installing Vista into a new Fusion VM. Helped faculty member Joanne W with spam issues. Helped student IG with email account lockout. I've used Microsoft Windows Vista in the past when students came to my office for assistance with their laptops, but today is the first time I am installing it and using it for myself for either work or home. Considering that it was released worldwide on January 30, 2007, I think my adoption of Vista differs from the general public only in that I probably avoided it longer than most people could because my experience with computers enabled me to. While installing security updates for Vista, I tried starting my XP VM but some things would not work properly because of IP address conflict. I could not see an easy way to resolve this, so I quit XP. It seems I can only run either Vista or XP but not both at the same time? Also after installing Vista I realized that Windows Defender is a default application—you don't need to download and install it like you do for XP, so when I can run XP again I need to adjust the instructions I put on the web recently about that. Realized I can connect from Terminal in OS X instead, so I did that. Helped an entering student with questions about wireless. Updated presentation slides for OSACA introductions during orientation. Went to the post office and mailed the broken Linksys router/wap. Lunch by myself at Ten. Chatted with Joel about ActiveSync and Blackberry security at UCSF. Prepared orientation documents for duplication. Class officers photos document for Cindy. Home. Chatted with Zach on the way in (Cameron). Dinner at home with Patrick: cow stir fry with mushrooms and red bell peppers, brown rice. Dessert: one scoop of peach sorbet. Picked up the iMac from the Apple store. Watched Tron extras on DVD borrowed from psychobauble and Nate.