Thursday, April 15, 2004
English muffins with butter for breakfast. Called Patrick's mom—left a message saying that Patrick made it to China safely. Updated Sophos on the server, then pushed the updates to all clients. Chatted with Jacqui S about Microsoft and Adobe licensing. Windows Updates for laptops. Labelled laptop equipment with our phone number in case pieces get lost. Put an aerial photo of the campus as the desktop picture on the laptop. More trying to get Chris's laptop to connect to the network. Every time I install Client for Microsoft Networks, I get an error: "A duplicate name exists on the network" and the TCP/IP settings are messed up somehow and I can no longer connect to the Web. Dell Gold Support was unable to help. Got Chris's laptop shipping box from Rodney. Removed and reinstalled MS Office on his laptop, then did Office updates. Link checking. Made live Joel's graduation ceremony changes. Called SF Micro—they'll send someone today at 4:30 PM to help with the laptop. Late lunch in the workroom: takeout lasagna from the cafeteria. WebCT meeting followed by Microsoft MCCA license agreement meeting. Sat with Joe from SF Micro while he worked on Chris's laptop. I am very impressed with his skills—he works very fast in Windows—almost as fast as me. However it still took him 2 hours to fix the problem—I don't feel so bad that I got stuck on it. I ended up staying late because the laptop corrupted its TCP/IP stack again and needed some software reinstalled after Joe left. Left work around 8:40 PM. Moved the car. Showered. Dinner at home by myself: spinach salad with tomatoes, broccoli, cheddar cheese, roasted garlic dressing. When I tried to check e-mail tonight at about 11 PM, both lodestarquarterly.com and frankfarm.com failed. My web host's site is also down—I hope it's not another fire in their building. Installed a new version of Winamp due to security problems in older versions. Sent Patrick instructions on how to do the Winamp update as well as the recent Windows updates. Followed a link from wired.com to Paul Thompson's Complete 911 Timeline. I read the page about Flight AA 11 in fascination.