Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. When attempting to use Secure WebDisk, I received this error message: "Unable to connect to the webdisk server. You must accept the servers certificate to be able to connect! Please try again Finder got an error: An error of type -5016 has occurred. (Cancel) (OK)." I'm not certain, but I think this problem exists because we have not yet pointed our DNS to the server. I think once that's working this problem goes away. More ServInt setup: put in a placeholder page for Nancy's site, configured webdav connections and shortcuts, organized my connection shortcuts. Computer maintenance for Cindy: set BIOS low power mode on. Prepared a message to Academic Management about the 3-week-old problem with PharmAdMIT 2008 not being compatible with last month's Patch Tuesday from Microsoft. Lunch with Joel at Gordo: burrito with cheese, Coca-Cola for me; 2 tacos and water for Joel. He said he prefers taco places that can put more lettuce in his tacos, and I understand that desire. He ran an errand afterwards at the bank. We stopped at the new farmer's market which takes place on campus in the covered breezeway outside of the Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) building every Wednesday. I bought some fruits and vegetables. I sat in their comfortable waiting room watching the flat panel TV tell me what the next steps were for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Spent the afternoon setting up our live site on ServInt before DNS is repointed. I felt like a cowboy getting rsync to do what I wanted then not do what I wanted then do what I wanted again. After that it was a lot of shell script migration. Got linkcheck migrated and working, set up cron jobs. Continuing to look good, just like yesterday. I think we'll be completely off of pubaff's servers much sooner than I had expected. Cindy's new printer arrived but I did not have time to set it up. Just before I left work I restarted the server to complete a Mozy upgrade and after I logged back in I found that Retrospect 6.5 for Windows had again lost its license code. Somehow my most recent backup of the config65.dat file was from April, so I restored to that and had to manually reconfigure some settings after it was working again. I wish I could just get rid of Retrospect and use something else, but I don't know that there's anything better. On the way home I realized that I forgot my farmer's market fruits and vegetables in the fridge at work. Dinner at home with Patrick: cheese tortelloni with cruciferous vegetables in red sauce, dinner rolls, Smart Balance Light, hot water. Watched Juno on Netflix DVD with Patrick. We both like this film and recommend it. Patrick went to bed and I stayed up to work on Danny's website—mostly text updates and a few new services. Facebook is frustratingly slow today. It's the slowest website I use regularly. Runners up in pokeyness are Flickr Organizr (probably because I have so many sets) and d.e.l.i.c.i.o.u.s (I can never remember where the periods go). If you've sent me something on Facebook and if it's important please send me e-mail instead. I often can't get Facebook to respond when I click the links!