Thursday, July 23, 2009

Usual oatmeal breakfast. To work. Spent the whole work day in the Dean's conference room with Susie L and Eric D planning our new web strategy. Lunch in the conference room: sandwich from home. Dinner at Gordo by myself: burrito, mandarin soda. To home. Yesterday my iMac was behaving strangely. The iMac would refuse to gracefully log out or shut down. After much troubleshooting I now know that in Activity Monitor manually quitting the process called loginwindow sometimes can resolve that problem. In my case, I had to do that and also restart the Airport Express by unplugging it and plugging it back in. Something had gotten stuck looking for the network drives which were no longer mounting, and I had them in my startup items so I had to remove them from that to decomplicate the issues. All of this took several hours of my time—perhaps 3 or 4 hours, some of which was last night and some of which was tonight. Tonight I also installed DenyHosts using Kyle Taylor's tutorial for OS 10.5. Thanks, Kyle!