Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Reported MacKeeper spam to iCloud admins. Ran Mac Hardware Test on my new iMac at home—no problems. Breakfast at home: two eggs scrambled with dollops of sour cream, two hash browns, hot water. Rode my bike to work. New iMac setup: installed Chrome, CS5, Acrobat 9, Office 2011. Chatted briefly with Stephane about setting up a headless test workstation for Ray C. Restarted the new iMac—successful. Installed Java update, SEP, PGP. Installed OmniGraffle Pro. Deleted license from old OmniGraffle Pro. Added license to new OmniGraffle Pro. Reopened Word, Excel, and PowerPoint three times each to get rid of the dialog that opens automatically—so annoying. Installed Caffeine, Alfred, Cyberduck, Filezilla, Firefox 18, Flip4Mac, Silverlight, Movi, Remote Desktop Connection, Skitch, TextWrangler, VLC, Xmarks for Safari. Installed fonts. Had trouble installing FontShop Shinntype Preface Bold due to font validation errors. Lots of setup and configuration. Helped James J with a question about a supp app issue. Chatted briefly with Sara G about posting a news update for The Kidney Project. Let Valerie R and Joe C borrow two video adapters. Late lunch to go from Carmelina's: tostada, refried beans, no meat, mild salsa, refused free drink. Ate at my desk, drank water from my klean kanteen. Coded the 2013-2014 calendars. Updated 2012-2013 calendars with the graduation ceremony date. Helped two students today: one failing to set up email on an LG Intuition VS950, the other no longer seeing calendar information in CLE on an iPad (but desktop browser is okay). Troubleshooting VS950 issue with Tran and the student. The solution was to use the Exchange protocol. I didn't notice it because there are two places in this Android phone where mail protocols are listed during an account setup and because the Exchange protocol was already (incorrectly) configured and so it wasn't showing in the list of available protocols to install. Chatted briefly with Tran about Tivoli for Mac (probably not worthwhile to install) and PGP Encryption Desktop for Mac shows no drives available under "Encrypt a disk". Submitted a ticket for the no drives available PGP problem. Rode my bike to Nan King Road Bistro. They let me bring in my folded bike and set it next to my table while eating. (I don't consider it lockupable.) I wasn't sure if they would and asked nicely while entering. Dinner by myself at Nan King Road Bistro: jasmine green tea, hong kong chow mein with tofu: $14 after a $2.something tip. Rode my bike home. No problems with the door lock today with either Patrick's key or my key, so I'm not sure what happened yesterday. Responded at length to a Straight Talk thread I started on Facebook which received many replies.