Thursday, July 19, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Restored network shortcut for Carol. Restored e-mail archives for Joel. Chatted with Hubert about Mozy Pro followup. Backed up Joel's old computer. Troubleshot permissions for Joel to the admissions network folder. Troubleshot a problem unprotecting a document which had been protected in Word 2003 (Office 2003) and we were unable to find a way to unprotect it in Word 2007 (Office 2007). Worked around it by reopening in Word 2003, unprotecting it, then opening in Word 2007. Printed a binder cover. Steaven showed up at noon to help Joel with understanding some of the admissions coordinator tasks that Joel is now taking on. Backed up Steaven's old computer. Lunch: panda express to go, sat in Saunders Court to eat. My fortune: Your thoughts are highly regarded. CSC steering committee meeting—I showed up a few minutes late but the room was empty. I waited a few minutes and no one appeared, so I left. Archived a packing slip. Began setting up Mozy Pro. Uninstalled Acrobat Pro 8 from Carol's old computer. Backed up Carol's old computer. Prepped equipment for surplus. Patrick picked me up in the car after work. I bought a pair of drywall joint knives at the hardware store in Cole Valley. Drove to the Mission. We got a peach smoothie at a cafe. We met Chris and Nate at Borderline Books. Nate had wanted to check out bookstores to get reading material for Caltrain, and there are a couple of interesting bookstores right around 20th and Valencia. After Borderline we wandered upon dinner at Regalito, which we enjoyed. After dinner we went to ? and then to Dog Eared Books. Drove Chris and Nate home. Drove home. I continued setting up Aaron's laptop. The new hard drive installed successfully. I ran an initial disk test using Dell diagnostics, and all is well. Installed Microsoft updates. Ran the Fujitsu disk tools, but it didn't detect any drive in the laptop. Ran SeaTools. Flickrd. The Vantec SATA and IDE to USB 2.0 adapter I ordered arrived, so I'm just waiting now for the hard drive, and I can begin operating on the Mac Mini to restore my web server.