Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Cereal for breakfast. Got to work. There was a power outage last night, so when I got in the staff were complaining about computer problems. I turned the server on—it had been hibernated after the backup power was exhausted. The outage occurred around 7:00 PM. I restarted the server just to be safe, then alerted everyone they should log out and log back in. Stacey's computer wouldn't start successfully—after the Windows XP logo and blue progress indicator disappeared, the screen would go black and it was as though the computer was rebooting or first turned on. I entered Safe Mode as local admin, used System Restore to revert to a system checkpoint hours before the outage, restarted, logged in as me, restarted, and now all seems to be well. Reset Will's password for our forums project. Scanned in 7 documents for Pollyanna, converted them to PDF for her. Installed XP SP2 for a student laptop. Chatted with student AC about receiving e-mail messages not intended for AC. Reported a very small backend db problem with a School of Medicine database. Helped Lucia with a problem in InDesign. Joel returned my hemmed jeans today—such fast service! Helped Pollyanna set up the laptop for presentations in Toland Hall. Minor web page updates for Cindy. Checked in with Julia about a librarian position at Mission Bay for my friend Chris. Handled an accidental spam message sent to our listservs. Because Travis and others had asked, I calculated the square footage of our new apartment. At 721 square feet, it's the largest apartment Patrick and I have shared together. It still feels small, though. I notice today that my Linksys router is now letting my Windows computers connect at 100 Mbps instead of only 10. About 2 weeks ago I noticed that it only let me connect at 10 Mbps and I couldn't figure out why and I didn't have time to contact their tech support during the day because I didn't want to talk to India (they were nice people but they didn't seem to have the knowledge I needed). Ever since (I think) the cycling power on the router, this problem is now magically gone. Did a little catching up on e-mail. Welcome to March!