Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Met with Bill Soller to discuss his changes for the HPM pathway pages. He has everything organized and although it's more content than I had initially expected it still looks like no more than 2 full days of coding to complete. He's happy, since they're under pressure to get this finished before an important something or other in early September. Survey #1 changes for Susie. Installed Win XP SP2 blocks on all our office computers. Debrah's computer wasn't reporting in to Sophos Admin, so I removed some spyware and viruses from it. However, after a restart, a strange thing happened. Whenever she opens any browser, there's a long delay—about 30 seconds—before anything appears. Her homepage—Yahoo!—doesn't appear to have been hijacked, but I still suspect that spyware installed with Web search toolbars had somehow screwed something up. The problem happens both in IE6 and Netscape 6.2. Hosts file is clean. The problem goes away when I log in as me, so I know it has something to do with her profile on the computer—not the computer itself. The delay might lead one to suspect a DNS or network settings problem, but the network settings are the same under my login so I think I can rule that possibility out. (Though as I write this I should check that a different non-admin login behaves the same way.) I installed Firefox 0.9.3 and got the same weird behavior. I'm still puzzled over this one. During the day I also installed PharmAdMIT 2005 and Jet 4.0 SP8 for most people in our office. I made new icons for PharmAdMIT 2005 through 2010. I stayed late trying to fix Debrah's computer. Dinner at Nan King Road Bistro by myself: Double Happiness (noodles with dumplings) with Chicken. Patrick had his writer's group tonight.