Friday, October 19, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Computer admin work: installed Java 6 update 3 and Firefox 2.0.0.8, remote desktop configuration, installed sqlyog enterprise. LGBT viz followup with Kevin. Gathered and filed remaining student photos batch from Terence. Eric returned his temporary computer so I did some admin work on it and moved it back to Joel's old office and locked it up. Got my free flu shot. Lunch: sesame noodle salad and pizza from the cafeteria. Troubleshooting a probable computer virus infection for a student. Coded a new grad fairs web page for Joel and Alyssa. Met briefly with Eric: VPN and port opening and firewalls. Listserv maintenance for a student. More laptop troubleshooting for a student. Turns out it was a bad hard drive, which I suspected when McAfee Stinger would stop on the exact same file and just hang. And because the computer exhibited really weird behavior even in Safe Mode and with no suspect processes running. I ran diagnostics and it quickly found errors on the drive. More computer admin work. Somehow when starting Retrospect 6.5 for Windows today the configuration file got corrupted and when Retrospect launched all the settings in my configuration were gone. Panic! I checked Mozy and realized I wasn't backing up my config65.dat file. Immediately configured Mozy to back it up. Started Retrospect again and had it rebuild a backup catalog which I think saved the file. The rebuild will take a while so I left work and will check it tonight from home. Dinner at home by myself: Nissin Choice Ramen Savory Herb Chicken noodle soup. I added napa cabbage, celery, parsley, egg, and shrimp. This ramen is much more expensive than fried ramen but much healthier for you. I won't buy it regularly, but it still tastes good.