Thursday, July 17, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Processed photos. To work. Helped student LC with a question about wireless access. Posted a new e-mail help topic regarding the error message "Outlook is trying to retrieve data...". Helped faculty member Mitra A with a question about uploading photos to Flickr. Wireless upgrade followup with Terry McC. Current students news updates. City tours and out-of-state packet review for students MAM and PF. Encountered the following problem while attempting to start Windows XP SP3 in VMWare Fusion 1.1.3: "STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error}—The Windows Logon Process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000005 (0x00000000 0x00000000).—The system has been shut down." I shut down the VM cold, restarted pressing F8 during startup and choosing last known good. This solved the problem; Win XP started successfully. I did not log in. I did a full shutdown, quit Fusion, restarted Fusion, restarted the VM normally (no F8)—Windows XP starts successfully. I log in successfully. All seems well. Worked through lunch, which was leftovers from yesterday. Installed Firefox 3.0.1 on my Mac Pro and on one Windows XP laptop. Installed Sun Java 6 Update 7 on one Win XP laptop. Identifying people in the GAL followup with Doug C. DAL feedback followup. Core curriculum web update for Cindy. Info gathering for cardkey lock installation for Brian H. Lots of other updates for the old Win XP laptop. Organized my physical desktop, got rid of a lot of post-it notes and stuck them as messages in my inbox. Home. Got the Time Machine error again: "Time Machine Error: Unable to complete the backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume. (OK)". Log file in console shows "Copy stage failed with error:11" and "Backup failed with error: 11". Weird thing is that backupd messages continue to say "Backup completed successfully." Changed computer name to include only alphanumerics. Dinner at home with Patrick: filet mignon, mixed vegetables, thai lime rice. Processed photos. Installed Firefox 3.0.1 on OS X at home. 28 party photos processed, 96 to go. The Website is Down - loved it!