Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Woke too early from coughing. Troubleshot a problem in OS 10.6.8 in which error "cannot allocate memory" or "resource busy" appeared in Disk Utility while attempting to format a working external hard drive. To resolve "resource busy" I remounted the drive. To resolve "cannot allocate memory" the solution suggested by kisuke3 at 5:02 PM on Sep 8, 2009 worked: select "zero out erase" before formatting. More external hard drive work. Telecommute day. Followup with student MA about the conferences page. Reported a problem logging into the new Honors and Awards database in Salesforce. I wasn't able to finish my workday today because of cold symptoms. I think I skipped dinner because of the cold symptoms.