Thursday, March 24, 2011
Breakfast at home: organic oatmeal with fresh, diced organic granny smith apple; cinnamon; nonfat milk. Rode the bus to work. More responding to messages from students emailing from their non-UCSF email accounts asking about the email system. It was not clear to me how long the outage lasted—it was some amount of time between 24 hours and 3 days. Pushed live the visitors calendar for Cindy. Calendar management. In researching a printer purchase, we were all set to purchase a Xerox 3220DN until I realized that Xerox offers only depot service and on-site coverage, both relatively expensive compared with HP's care pack next-business-day-exchange service. We don't have an easy way to drive a laserprinter to a service location, and $289 for 3 years of Xerox onsite service versus $75 for 3 years of HP return-by-mail and get-a-new-printer-tomorrow service is an easy choice. Some supp app work: 15 minutes. Submitted the congratulations poster for the hallway to DMM. It has been slow getting answers from them, even not counting the mail outage. Supp app work: 30 minutes. Helped Sue A with cropping a PDF of the update from the dean and posting it on the web. Checked in with Doug C and Orlando L about handling online payments and how to send them directly to his office. Lunch at Burgermeister: veggiemeister, roasted garlic fries, pink lemonade, about $12 + $2 round-trip bus fare. Eric and I spent several hours researching laptop connection problems with our various shared and non-shared office laptops. Essentially, the problem is that none of them connect at larger than 1024x768 to the brand new display in S-936, and our silver MacBook with Windows 7 in Boot Camp will not connect at all. This is probably a driver issue specific to Boot Camp and Windows 7 and this display, but I am not certain. All 3 of the laptops we tried do connect as expected at much higher resolutions in one of the S rooms. So afterwards I bought some HDMI-to-DVI cables which are expected to help. We'll see; I am not optimistic. Worked very late until 9 PM, spending 3 hours on the supp app project. Rode the bus home. Dinner at home: leftover stir fry and rice. Started becoming acquainted with the new features in Firefox 4. So far so good.