Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Researched transparency printing problems with Acrobat and InDesign. Updated documents in the password database. Helped some students with various issues. Read "To Hell with WCAG 2" on alistapart. Requested student photo handoff from the police department. Signed off on the computing services print job (print as image). Lunch with Joel: takeout from the cafeteria. Helped Joel collate entering student packets. Filed a number of remedy ticket change requests with OAAIS and ENS. Researched how to network our fax machine, a Brother MFC-5440CN. More PharmAdMIT 2007 troubleshooting. When launching, I get: "Error: Resource file version mismatch. (OK)" followed by "Microsoft Visual FoxPro: Visual FoxPro cannot start. Could not load resources. (OK)." It took me a while to find this solution provided by Sergey Berezniker in Message #1087192 on utmag.com. The solution is: "Solution: Search your HD for VFP9R.DLL, VFP9T.DLL, VFP9RENU.DLL and delete the ones that are not VFP9SP1. Next time, don't copy them all over you HD." Don't mind that snarkiness at the end—the various PharmAdMIT installations are what did it, of course. And he doesn't say how to determine if they are SP1 or not—my method was to get properties on each DLL file and click over to the tab which provides a description of the file. Instead of deleting outright, I renamed mine with .old extensions, and it worked just the same. I had VFP8 files mixed in with VFP9 files and some VFP9 files that weren't SP1. Even after this fix, the PharmAdMIT 2005 installer still launches now and then for no good reason. I think once it has been installed, the 2005 installer somehow sticks around until you reformat the hard drive. It won't go away even if you uninstall PharmAdMIT 2005. Just select Cancel multiple times when you see it happen and everything is good afterwards. Dinner at home with Patrick: chicken strips with three dipping sauces (ranch, ketchup, wasabi horseradish); peppered mashed potatoes; green leaf salad with swiss cheese, avocado, turkey, hard-boiled egg, basil. Weight training: hammer curl. Late meal: leftovers.