Monday, January 8, 2007
Morning run: 5 minutes. When I arrived at work, I found Chris's MacBook Pro had been on all weekend. I found it in the locked drawer very, very warm—almost hot to the touch. I was unable to wake it with any keypresses or mouse movement. I forced a shutdown and let it cool for a while. My primary computer also would not start this morning. It hung while "loading your personal settings" after logging in. I fixed that with a cold restart. Disabled outicon.exe from startup which is related to Outlook 2003 but I don't know what it is for and I've been running Outlook 2003 for years and never needed it and found only one insignificant result searching for outicon.exe on microsoft.com (via Google, of course). (See tomorrow's entry for a followup about outicon.exe.) Troubleshooting with the MacBook Pro (MBP). Met briefly with Cindy about a request for an HTML e-mail template. Implemented Mike Cohen's lidwake fix. Turned on FileVault for all OS X accounts on the laptop. Helped student KP with laptop problems and questions about posting news to the current students page. Some pages on bookendzdocks.com display with overlapping text in Firefox 2.0.0.1 in Windows XP. Quick fix: disable Javascript and reload the page. Workaround: View the page in IE. Product ordering for Chris. Lunch from the cafeteria: roasted vegetables, plum-glazed chicken, steamed rice. Helped student MK with wireless. Problems with Cindy's computer: opening My Documents takes forever, very slow response from the computer. Computer maintenance for Chris: very low available disk space on C: drive, updates for Firefox and Mozilla, etc. Chatted with Lucia about the HP1040 fax machine. Scanned a document for Scott. Added right-click to the MBP using RH Designs software. Used the Microsoft Files and Settings Transfer Wizard for the first time ever today. It worked and was very useful to migrate Chris's settings from his old laptop to his new one. I've been having a devil of a time trying to figure out if TrueCrypt can encrypt the entire partition on which Windows is installed. The website doesn't make this clear at all, but I've seen some evidence elsewhere that it's not supposed to be done. More laptop setup for Chris. Home. Dinner at home with Patrick: herb-roasted chicken, grilled carrots, skinny french fries. Worked on Corinna's website.