Thursday, March 21, 2013
Weight training: standing dumbbell curl. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with fresh, diced pear; cinnamon; soy milk. Continued setting up Windows 7 VM: installed Chrome, SEP. Rode my bike to UCSF Parnassus. Linkchecking, kiosk work. Followup with Brenda G and Suya C about the kiosk. Followup with student CR about Android, Razr, UCSFwpa. C3 conf call: only Greg, Eric D, and I appeared—we thought there would be one last conf call but I guess not. Reviewed C3 stylesheet work, sent it to Michael and Eric D for review. Web edit prep work for Susie regarding new dean announcement. Pharmchem web edit for Rebecca, Nicole, and Millo. Followup with Walter S about admin access to the pharmchem website. Set a preview session to close on a certain date for Shirin. Edits to the 13-14 academic calendar for Cindy. Submitted at ticket to ITS requesting the postponement of a wireless outage at Mission Bay housing. Lunch at Soi Gow: bento box #5: bbq chicken, pad thai with tofu, spring roll, soup, small salad. Encountered Dr. Lee, said hello. Stopped at Arizmendi Bakery for a ricciarelli and a ginger shortbread. Walked back to work. Wanted to install sshfs, but couldn't; I needed FUSE. I tried installing fuse 2.9.2, which failed: [error: sys/statfs.h: No such file or directory.] I tried installing osxfuse 2.5.4, which failed: [configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full path to pkg-config.] I tried installing pkg-config 0.28, which failed: [configure: error: Either a previously installed pkg-config or "glib-2.0 >= 2.16" could not be found. Please set GLIB_CFLAGS and GLIB_LIBS to the correct values or pass --with-internal-glib to configure to use the bundled copy.] I reran sudo ./configure but this time with --with-internal-glib—success. Accidentally reinstalled the Mac installer for OSXFUSE because I had forgotten that I had installed it successfully. Found new instructions on the web, somehow successfully compiled pkg-config. Needed to install glib but found that I need to install gettext before installing glib. Installed gettext 0.18—successful. Downloaded glib-2.34.0.tar.xz—successful. Didn't know how to unwrap a file ending with xz. Tried extracting files with 7-Zip in Windows XP but it failed: [Can not open file ... as archive.] Checked my version of 7-Zip which is 4.65. Downloaded 7-Zip 9.20—successful. Tried running the installer but failed even using Run As... and providing administrator credentials. Logged out of Win XP. Logged in as admin. Installed 7-Zip 9.20—successful. Tried installing glib, which failed: [configure: error: Package requirements (libffi >= 3.0.0) were not met: No package 'libffi' found]. Successfully installed libffi-3.0.13. Returned to installing glib—successful. Returned to installing sshfs—successful. Somewhere along the way I also installed xcode and its command line tools. Chatted with Terry M about postponing a scheduled wireless outage. Installed SSH GUI but upon running it failed: [SSHFS is not available. No implementation found...] Tried running a variety of sshfs commands with debug output but nothing useful. Considered installing Sublime SFTP, decided to give up on this for today. What a waste of time. Management activities. Followup regarding wireless outage—they cannot postpone. Attempted to resolve a problem with Prey Project and WorldPay, failed. Announced that the new iPQB website was live, but this turned out to be incorrect. Rode my bike home. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Sushi Raw. Shopped for gifts online.