Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Purchasing research for Chris. Sent Firefox and Outlook tips to new staff. HTML template edits for Cindy. Chatted with Lucia and Alyssa about ordering from The Technology Store. Finished applications training for Carol. Chatted with Susie about the faculty database. Helped student JP with problems starting Word and Excel: "(null) is not a valid Win32 application." Not sure what's going on. I recommended that the student remove and reinstall Office. Also helped with wireless setup and installation of anti-virus and anti-spyware. Installed Acrobat 8 Professional on my computer. Lunch: sandwich from the cafeteria. Installed SQLyog Enterprise 5.2.2. SQLyog setup and configuration. Student database work. Reinstalled Brother all-in-one drivers. Tested network scanning—it works! Chatted with Chris about his computer setup at home. Computer maintenance for Joel. Updated the new employee checklist. Patrick and I checked out the 3D buildings in Google Earth 4. Increased security on home computers by removing admin privileges from the accounts we use daily, mirroring the steps I've recently taken with computers at work. Cleaned Patrick's trackball which had gotten gunked up. He doesn't know how to clean it yet. I also installed a bunch of updates from Microsoft and Mozilla. Installed Adobe Reader 8 for OS X. Lots of account setup configuration.