Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Woke early. Recharge Spa work: mailing list email. Usual oatmeal breakfast. To work. Just like yesterday (and I forgot to mention it), this morning VMware Fusion 2.0.2 displayed a Windows Vista startup screen that was frozen on the loading progress indicator. I rolled back to an earlier working version. Reinstalled VMware Tools, though I'm not sure if this will help. Took another "all is well" snapshot. Restarted Vista. It hangs again. Successfully restarted in Safe Mode. Ran Disk Cleanup. Scheduled a disk check. Restarted in Safe Mode—hang. Restarted normally—disk check began but I think I switched away with Command+Tab and when I switched back it was already at the login screen, so I think I accidentally canceled it when I didn't want to. Logged in successfully. Scheduled another disk check. Restarted normally. Systray balloon appears: "Windows Defender: MSASCui.exe - corrupt file - The file or directory C:\$Secure is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility." followed by "Acrobat Distiller: Unable to create the temporary folder. Error: 1392 - The file or directory is corrupt and unreadable. (OK)" Scheduled another disk check. Restarted normally—hang. Restarted in Safe Mode—hang. Rolled back to my most recent "all is well" state. Recreated c:\windows\temp. Scheduled a disk check. Shut down. I switched away with Command+Tab to do other things and when I switched back, it was hung on a startup screen. Several times I've seen quickly flashed a BSOD—Fusion must be restarting Windows without letting people read the BSOD. Rolled back to an earlier "all is well" state. Scheduled a disk check. Restarted. Disk check begins! 54 items in my inbox :-(. Entourage 2008 refuses to let me create an all-day event: "The ending time is before the start time. (OK)" If I uncheck "all-day event" and then reselect it, it works. Disk check completes. Windows starts successfully and restarts successfully. Submitted a Remedy ticket: "In IDAF, when I add a dept code and title code for a student, it automatically sets the start date to today's date (02-24-2009) and the end date to one year minus one day from now (02-23-2010). The person requesting these access changes has asked for the access to begin on 03-01-2009 and end on 03-31-2010. When I attempt to set the start and end dates to these dates, an error occurs: 'SF044 Duration of affiliation limited to one year for this title.' I would like to be able to do this work today such that the dates are set correctly rather than waiting until the morning that they are supposed to have access to do so. If I do this work today and leave the dates as they are automatically populated, then students won't have access 02-24-2010 to 03-31-2010 and I'll need to do this work twice to ensure they have the proper access. How can this be resolved? Thanks!" Completed manual IDAF request for 56 students for Claire. 1-on-1 meeting with Cindy. Made live new Set Up E-mail pages, announced to SCWG and Mark B. Calendar management. Helped students LS and AP with VPN lockout due to MyAccess transition. Followup with student JS about laptop problems. Followup with student AP about virus-infected laptop. Requested test Moodle course from Steven Williams. Followup with Cesar about network problems ticket. Management work. CTS final draft documents review, sent a few comments back, but so far it looks good. We just have to figure out what to do with these last minute findings about very inexpensive outsourcing options. Calendar maintenance. Set up users in Moodle for the test course that Steven W created for us. Made live new links from the admissions section of our website to Joel's blog. BTS styling: added boxes to research main page, adjusted print stylesheets, made lots of other small changes. Inserted a new link on the homepage to Partners in D, sent it to Susie for review. Confirmed room for tomorrow's Expression Engine demo by Public Affairs. Linkchecking: fixed all broken links to the new library website. (They did not put in redirects.) Lunch today was a quick burrito and tortilla chips from Carmelina's, chatted with Eric K in line. I could only eat two thirds of the burrito. 40 items in my inbox. Patrick picked me up in the car, and we drove to DDP's for a Mardi Gras dinner and celebration: Vietnamese takeout, king cake.