Thursday, September 25, 2008
Woke too early, got up and troubleshot the Vista VM, which was behaving strangely. For example, when I selected Windows+E to open a new Explorer window, the Explorer window would not open and instead the Acrobat 8.1.2 installer would start. And really slow behavior in all operations. I reverted to an earlier VMware Fusion snapshot, turned off System Restore, turned off indexing for c:, took a new snapshot, scheduled a disk check. While turning off indexing for c:, I got weird error messages about not having permissions to change files such as c:\boot\memtest.exe and c:\boot\cs-cz\bootmgr.exe.mui. I immediately suspected a virus but could not find anything on the web to confirm this suspicion, so I think it's okay. Disk check completed, I took a new snapshot. Shut down Vista. Fusion settings: turned on printers, turned off 3D graphics, set 1 cpu instead of 2, left memory at 768 MB and network at bridged. Adjusted system for best performance. Vista VM now seems a lot better than before. To work. Small web updates: add preview sessions to /pharmd/events, reset orientation pages. Chatted with Susie about management stuff. Requested permission from Lisa C to switch dns for the BTS domain to our server. Created a new staging server for BTS. Lunch: shrimp louie wrap with spinach tortilla from the cafeteria. Pushed live the web page that tells faculty and staff how to make a podcast. Updated the faculty page to restore contact info links—had to do this manually since there is no API or web service to hook into. Helped several students today: bsod, Flickr. Lots of Blogger template work. Sent a reminder to myself that I need to revamp the web developer section of our website. There's lots of old content there and we need new information about how to build a website. Sent Joel a bunch of links to different admissions acceptance letters. Dinner at home with Patrick: grilled salmon with hoisin garlic glaze, steamed peas, dinner roll, herbed olive oil. Watched Heroes Episodes 8 and 9 on Netflix DVD with Patrick.