Thursday, October 6, 2005
Updated a document listing the class officers. Met with student YB about an e-mail problem. Met with drop-in student PB—wireless had stopped working for him a few days ago. Turns out he needs to renew his GALEN account. Drafted a message about e-mail address privacy settings for Cindy. Sent the office a new copy of the list of all students. Deleted a listserv for Cindy. Updated an admissions web page for James. Updated my VPN web page. Chris complained of delays occurring at a certain hour—I guess I need to push our backups to a few hours later. Visited zimbra.com for the first time today via a link in a wired.com story. Wow! Mitch Kapor—what happened to you (and your blog)? I would try to set up zimbra at home, but I don't really need it (yet). The same WiReD article also talked about Flock, Zvents, and Greasemonkey. Flock does not interest me at all. Zvents looks somewhat promising. And Greasemonkey would be a lot more interesting if Firefox were bundled with it (because I don't want to have to ask people to install something in order for a script I write to work). Updates for Joel's computer. Ran Spy Sweeper scans. After listening to a music CD in the Mac Mini, I right-clicked it and ejected it, but it didn't come out. Although Apple Help gave some suggestions, the best answer came from allanmarcus on macoxshints who gave this very helpful tip: Use the command 'drutil eject' in a Terminal window. Apple should have put a paper clip manual eject on the Mac Mini, in my opinion. Started preparing for computer surgery to repair two crashed hard drives. Set up Spy Sweeper at home.