Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Woke early. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Organized the 2nd half of the tea drawer. Tidied the apartment. Weight training: plank, hammer curl. Did research for buying Mac Minis—the Buyer's Guide info on macrumors.com about when to buy is excellent except I can't figure out what the pink and blue horizontal bars mean. We'll wait about 3 months to get the latest Mac Minis (and OS 10.5 Leopard, too). Contacted mozypro about signing up. Computer maintenance for Joel: Firefox, Java, Microsoft Updates. Also resolved the problem in which I was unable to access his machine remotely, but I fixed it by turning on some services I had differently abled in the past. Submitted a request to activate a network port in Steaven's office so that I can reconfigure his computer remotely. Researched hard drives. Prepared an RFO for a new hard drive. I decided on a 500 GB Seagate NL35 SATA300 hard drive to replace our Iomega REV drive for backups. The nearline NL35 drive was a really good fit for my purpose—maintain versioning with onsite backups to our 10 users. I'll stick with Retrospect 6.5 for now. Cindy approved my decision to also spend about $250 a year for offsite backups. I'm going to try out Mozy Pro. Lunch: pastrami and cheddar sandwich from home, chatted with Scott and Steaven mostly about Bay to Breakers. Scanned a document to PDF for Alyssa. Discovered that network scanning is broken for her like it is for me. Did the same remote access fix for Cindy's computer. "Windows Activation Error: A problem occurred when Windows tried to activate. Error Code 0xC004F039." followed by "The Software Licensing Service reported that the computer could not be activated. The Key Management Service (KMS) is not enabled. (OK)" I do not know how to resolve this yet. Very annoying. Our unit joined MCCA, so I don't understand why this is happening. I'm guessing the earliest I could deploy Vista to my office now would be December 2007, and I am not disappointed by that. Right now because I'm running it on 3.5-year-old hardware Vista feels like it's not worth it. I have to run in 640 x 480 because otherwise Vista doesn't start up properly the next time you use it. I know that my Vista experience will change perhaps significantly when we refresh hardware later this year, but I still can't get excited about mere eye candy, which is what Vista mostly is. Maybe when I have it on fresh hardware I'll turn off all the eye candy and see how much I like it then. Job description work. Bought bus passes. Bought two veggie spring rolls from Panda Express. Dinner at home with Patrick: rotelle and grilled mushrooms and asparagus and shrimp with alfredo sauce, leftover pizza. Trip planning for Hawaii. Sorted through junk to sell or give away or keep.