Thursday, August 7, 2003
Installed Mac OS X. It took a very long time—felt like an hour, tho I didn't time it exactly. Software update automatically notified me of a 10.0.4 and IE 5.1 Preview updates. Installed them. Installed StuffIt Standard 7.0.3, Mozilla 1.4, Netscape 7.1, Opera 6.02. Neither Mozilla nor Netscape would start—the icon would blink in the Dock for a few seconds, then disappear—no application appears. Don't know why. When starting Opera, it gave an error: "The application Opera has unexpectedly quit." Don't know why. Link checking. Spent a good part of the day fighting with Windows XP getting it to print to the HP LaserJet 1200se. It's a known problem—there's a "Win XP Communications Patch" on the HP site, but it wasn't easy installing it—the instructions weren't as clear as they could have been, especially since we had about 8 different HPLJ1200 drivers on the computer—I didn't know which one to choose when the dialog prompted me to pick one. Workaround for the future: uninstall the HPLJ1200 before upgrading to XP. Lunch at desk: leftovers from Beijing on Irving. Dinner at home with Patrick: five-spice salmon, asparagus, leftover pasta revisited with chunky vegetables, potato rosemary bread with olive oil.