Monday, March 10, 2008
Breakfast: granola with sliced banana. Backups maintenance (Mozy and Retrospect). Small web edits for Carol: PSCI resources. Listserv management. itssrv1 web migration followup. Lunch: grilled chicken taco with black beans from Carmelina's, fruit punch from home. Met with student CW: several laptop problems. Today while working on student CW's laptop, I came across a program called Microsoft Office 2007 Primary Interop Assemblies. In Microsoft Vista, this appears in the Programs and Features control panel with no other description, so I searched Google on "Primary Interop Assemblies" for more info and the first hit was a Microsoft web page with the following brief description: "The 2007 Microsoft Office system Primary Interop Assemblies (PIA) redistributable is a Microsoft Windows Installer package that contains the Primary Interop Assemblies for 2007 Microsoft Office system products." Scroll down and there's a longer, but not more helpful, description: "The 2007 Microsoft Office Primary Interop Assemblies (PIA) redistributable is a Microsoft Windows Installer package that contains the Primary Interop Assemblies for 2007 Microsoft Office products. Specifically, the redistributable contains the PIAs for the following products: Microsoft Office Access 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Office Project 2007, Microsoft Office Publisher 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, Microsoft Office Visio 2007, Microsoft Office Word 2007. In addition, the redistributable package contains additional PIAs which are associated with many of these products." A related resources link called "Primary Interop Assemblies on MSDN" leads to a very technical page, which, if you dig through it, you can find: "An interop assembly is a specialized .NET assembly that contains metadata that defines COM types that enable .NET compilers to resolve calls to COM objects." Even ignoring the multiple self-referential definitions, how is a soccer mom supposed to perform all the same steps and understand that to make a decision about whether to uninstall it or not? Recently when trying to remotely access a computer using Chicken of the VNC, the remote computer in Chicken of the VNC behaved as though the Caps Lock were stuck in the down position (on). I would type and see capital letters appear. I would stop typing, press the Caps Lock key once, then continue typing, and still I would see capital letters. I found no solutions on the web, nor did I find anyone else who experienced the same problem. I was unable to resolve the problem myself. To resolve the problem in which the error "BCM Office Addin: Office application version does not match. (OK)" appears when starting an Office 2003 application, uninstall the item called Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2007 SP1 from the Add/Remove Programs control panel (Windows XP) or from the Programs and Features control panel (Vista). It took me a long time to find this because the name listed is "Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2007 SP1" rather than "Microsoft Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2007 SP1." Scanned a slide for Susie, but I'm not happy with the quality—something is wrong. Donated $5 to Devon Jensen for his Firefox Download Statusbar plug-in. A big part of the reason why I donated was that it was really easy to do: when I launched Firefox, a link appeared enabling me to donate through PayPal. If it weren't so easy, I am not sure I would have done it. Home. Dinner at home with Patrick: pork and chicken buns from Simmone, steamed baby bok choy, pork chops. Printing fails to both printers for some reason, even after restarting OS X. I received a gift card to Jamba Juice from my dentist after referring psychobauble to her. Sweet! Printing works from Windows XP within Fusion. Weird. The sunset tonight was amazing—lots of amazing colors. Stretches. Tennis ball massage.