Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Stretches. Weight training: kneeling kickback, various leg lifts, crunch, one-legged calf raise. Cardio cool-down: 10 minutes. Shower. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Telecommute day. Yesterday our email administrators upgraded Outlook Web Access from (I think) Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. This caused some problems. Previously, many students didn't bother to include their domain and a backslash when logging in—they would say "ffarm" instead of "campus\ffarm". The old OWA didn't require it, but the new OWA does, so it appeared to them that they could no longer log in. Another problem is that the link to the spam firewall on the VPN home page after logging in is now broken. The workaround is to use VPN to visit https://cuda.ucsf.edu. JWG's computer got infected with Troj/Virtum-Gen and Mal/EncPk-CZ. Symptom: I removed the viruses, deleted all temp files, cleared browser history, cleared system restore, restarted Windows, rescanned in Sophos and Defender. Lunch: burrito from a nearby burritoria. Lots of students needing help with e-mail. Worked on the forthcoming Communications section of our website. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftovers. Watched Heroes season 3 ("Exposed") on Netflix instant watch with Patrick. In the Netflix website, it's really hard to identify my friends because Netflix displays cryptic initials instead of real names or chosen names. The harder ones are those that have initials that don't match anything in my address book. I can sometimes make a good guess based on city (e.g., WK and bmh), but some are impossible for me to figure out even if I am shown what films they are watching (e.g., mvs). My gripe is more with Netflix than with my friends. If Netflix has established that 2 accounts are friends, why must they have the cryptic initials? Can't you presume at that point that the friends know each others' names? Also, if I have more than one friend whose initials are the same, I can't easily tell them apart. Stretches. Weight training: superslow front raise. Stretches. Late meal: nonfat vanilla yogurt, high fiber V8 juice, hot nonfat milk, vegetable beef soup.