Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Printer configuration for James. Reinstalled Tripp-Lite PowerAlert software for Kristina. Couldn't get PowerAlert 12 to work properly. It required Java and sure enough sometimes when I would start the applications I sat waiting and waiting and waiting for Java to do something while it seemed my screen froze up. Also, the status program worked as expected when I was logged in as admin, but not when I was logged in as a regular user. I couldn't figure out how to make it work properly—the icon in the system tray always appeared with a red question mark as though something was wrong. Uninstalled PowerAlert 12 and Sun Java 1.4.1, restarted, reinstalled PowerAlert 11, manually put a shortcut to the status app in the user's startup folder (not All Users), and now everything was fine. I had been thinking about Tripp-Lite for my next UPS purchase because their Web site seems straightforward and I can find things I need easily, but this experience has given me second thoughts. Met with 2 students today: Minh V (laptop problems) and Ardelle L (web questions). Linkchecking. More CSS work. Started looking at the images on cdrom that Susie sent in interoffice mail. Getting home on MUNI was painful. The 6:30 PM bus didn't show up, then the L train stalled at 19th Avenue—some problem with the doors. Instead of getting home by 6:50 PM, I got home around 7:20 PM. Organized files on the computer.