Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Link checking. Updated faculty listings for Susie. Tweaked monitor installation notes for Larry. Updated current students calendar. Reviewed notes for SCS meeting. SCS meeting. OSACA staff meeting. Chatted with Larry about the monitor installs—he did a fine job, and Ena mentioned to me that he was very polite. Updated the SCS computer requirements chart with Rob Slaughter's data. Left a message with Mike R asking for product numbers for the Cisco wireless adapter we need—I can't figure out from Cisco's marketing confusing materials which is the right one. Prepped provisional admit confirmation reply pages for live for James. Dropped off keys to the student lounge computer locks to Rodney. Chatted with Chris C about calendering apps. Emergency Win XP upgrades for Debrah and Melissa since their new flat screen monitors made the text fuzzier than with their old CRT monitors. Debrah's went mostly smoothly. Melissa's crashed and burned with a "no more irp stack locations" blue screen of death while attempting to copy a partition with PartitionMagic 7.0. It's magic alright; it made my time and her data magically disappear! Stayed at work until midnight reinstalling Win XP on her computer from scratch, then installing Windows Updates, then reinstalling nearly all her apps, then installing Office Updates, then meticulously restoring her data and as many settings as I could forage from the backup tape. Had to do it because she's in a no-downtime window for the admissions cycle and because I didn't do a full backup like I usually like to do for Windows upgrades just in case. Ate popcorn for dinner coz that's all I had. Did Windows Updates and a reboot on the server since no one was in the office. Rode the last 43 bus to catch the last L-train home by 1:00 am. Had some canned soup, caught up on e-mail, in bed by 2:00 am. Patrick went with Aaron to a reading at the main library today for Elizabeth Stark and others.