Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Student computing committee meeting. CD-ROM building. Computer maintenance for Chris: lots of updates, installed PharmAdMIT 2007 and Mozy. Chatted with Doug from stoptheft.com, placed an order for the new STOPLock product. Carol's computer shut off unexpectedly. Not sure why—all plugs are firm, feet not known to have been in the cable/plug area. Started some services which might needed to have been running, but that's still really weird for a brand new computer to just shut off by itself. More computer maintenance for Chris. Chatted with Chris about proximity locks and his old laptop. Lunch by myself at Pasta Pomodoro: healthy chicken. CD-ROM building. To resolve the problem in which when starting Firefox 2.0.0.5 the following dialog appears: "Software Update Failed: One or more files could not be updated. Please make sure all other applications are closed and that you have permission to modify files, and then restart Firefox to try again."—close Firefox, delete updates.xml, active-update.xml, and the updates folder from C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox (where [username] is the account name you're logged in as), then start Firefox. Both Carol and Chris's computers had this problem today, and in our case it was not a firewall problem as suggested in numerous places on mozillazine.org. Prepared CD-ROM build for review. Melissa H stopped by the office to chat with me and Joel for a while after her office downtown lost power. She's living two doors up from Squat and Gobble in the Castro, but only for another 2.5 weeks I think she said. Computer maintenance for Chris. Chatted with BK online for a few seconds about a power outage, and I didn't realize until much later that this outage was the same one that caused Melissa to leave work early today.