Monday, May 19, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Continued shared laptop Windows XP setup. Small web edit for Joel and Eric V. Chris reported a problem with the OAAIS spam firewall and I confirmed I had the same problem when I logged in, so I reported the problem to OAAIS. Learned today that if you install Sophos 6.5 while logged in as a domain admin who doesn't have explicit local admin rights, the installer does nothing and quits with no warning or error message. Again encountered the problem in which when Firefox 2.0.0.14 starts it immediately and repeatedly opens new windows one after another—forever or until the lack of system resources causes Windows to hang (whichever comes first). In the past the only way I knew to respond to this problem was to quickly and repeatedly type Alt+F followed by X, Alt+F followed by X, over and over again, so that's what I did this time and got it to quit. Relaunching Firefox resulted in the same problem. I waited a few minutes before launching Firefox again and this time the problem didn't happen. Listserv management: restore (repopulate) 2sb, 2sd, 2dav, 2fn, and add special edits for Claire and notify all program directors of their listservs. Lunch at desk from the cafeteria: chicken marsala, carrots, brown rice, dinner roll, pog juice. Shared laptop: had trouble getting Microsoft Updates to work properly. Finished setting up Windows XP SP3 on the shared office laptop and confirmed that it works with projectors in the S rooms downstairs. Kraig K fixed the spam firewall—I think he said it was a problem with the new authentication mechanism they hooked up. Studied WHM and planned webhost setup. Dinner at home with Patrick: bacon-wrapped Niman Ranch pork chops, steamed asparagus, brown rice, honey cornbread from yesterday. I noticed recently that Adblock no longer seems to be compatible with Firefox 2.0.0.14 and it hasn't been updated in a long time. So today I downloaded and installed Adblock Plus, but it didn't work—I would specify something to be blocked and it wouldn't block it, so after several minutes of trying to make it work and failing I just uninstalled it. Fixed some encoding problems with my journal. Stretches. Weight training: superslow bench dip. Stretches. Late meal: chunky soup, hot nonfat milk.