Thursday, May 17, 2012
Weight training: door pull-ups. Breakfast at home: organic oatmeal with diced, organic bosc pear; cinnamon; organic brown rice syrup; organic, unsweetened soy milk. Again restored my iMac from Time Machine backup. Rode my bike to work. Linkchecking, Flickr work, kiosk work. Management activities. Followup with Melanie D about the grads pages. Responded to a question from Gail P about when accounts close. Handled a request from student AL about access to Moodle. Helped Susie with a question about how to use Asana. Sautter award application review for Michael. Followup with ITS about BL's recent support request. C3 technical conference call. Asked Deborah A (who is our new HR contact) how to create a MyAccess account for a contractor (Mark F with C3). Supp app work in Drupal for most of the rest of the day. Lunch at the cafeteria: salmon burger and onion rings, water. Midafternoon meal: mushroom quesadilla, water. Management activities. More MyAccess account setup followup with Deborah A. Rode my bike home. Dinner at home with Patrick: veggie stir fry with organic brown rice (me) and organic white jasmine rice (Patrick). Today I reinstalled OS 10.7.4—for the third time in the past 9 days—and figured out the problem I encountered twice in the past. When I install OS 10.7.4 on my iMac which has PGP for Mac and if my startup drive is encrypted, the computer will not start properly following the install. My symptoms: a light gray screen and nothing happens—including no disk activity—for a really long time. Cold restarting while holding Option presents no options. Cold restarting while holding Cmd+R presents no options. I recovered fairly easily after 4 hours due to a Time Machine backup on a drive that was not PGP-encrypted. (Start from the Snow Leopard disc, from the Utilities menu select Disk Utility, format your startup drive, quit Disk Utility, then from the Utilities menu select Restore From a Time Machine Backup, then follow the instructions that appear.) In the past we were told by PGP that we needed to decrypt then uninstall PGP only when installing major operating system releases (e.g., when upgrading from 10.6 to 10.7). Now it seems you have to decrypt the startup drive and uninstall the PGP application before even minor dot releases. PGP is now officially more trouble than it's worth. Tried resolving a problem with Notes on my iPhone not synching with my iMac. I reset sync services but that didn't fix it. In iTunes I tried synching notes directly (instead of over the air) but received an error: "iTunes could not sync information to the iPhone [name of iPhone] because a sync session could not be started. (OK)".