Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Joel brought in tortilla chips and hot salsa for the office. Lunch: takeout from Panda Express. ImageBuilder build testing. Discovered that ImageBuilder is not compatible with IE7 beta and that if you get this error message: "Unable to start BITS - ImageBuilder transfer manager is unable to start Background Intelligent Transfer Service. Please contact your administrator." you need to run services.msc and ensure that BITS is started and set to Automatic startup. New SSL VPN web pages review for Sean. Gave Albert a heads up about our forthcoming cdrom duplication project. Forwarded the draft cdrom label to the committee for review. More ImageBuilder build testing—attempting to isolate the cause of the BSODs. Reviewed Kevin's final vision status report. Tried to do Flickr API work, but Flickr is down (!). "Arrggh! Our tubes are clogged!" it says on the Flickr home page. Then, after clicking a "Details Here" link: "Temporary Storage Glitch—We've had a temporary storage failure affecting a sizable chunk of old Flickr photos and are moving about 20 terabytes of photos across a few thousand miles (between two of our data centers) to ensure consistency and smoothness. ALL PHOTOS AND DATA ARE SAFE AND NOTHING HAS BEEN LOST. The site will come back up as soon as possible." I have a hunch about the BSODs I've been seeing with our Dell laptop. I am testing my hypothesis now. Dinner at home by myself: salad.