Thursday, January 19, 2017
This morning at home we had to reenter wifi passwords on some but not all devices in order to connect to the internet. Not sure if we have been hacked due to unpatched T-Mobile Personal Cellspot TM-AC1900 (aka Asus RT-AC68U) or if this is a somewhat normal situation. Zoey Weaver of mondo.com has been spamming me hard with email spam and voicemail spam at work. I thought I had tweeted about the unwanted messages sometime in the past 6 or 8 months, but now I can't find my tweet. I feel it must have disappeared or I am losing my memory. As far as I know, I have never done business or shown interest in doing business with mondo.com. No breakfast. Rode Uber Pool to a doctor appointment. Along the way I continued studying Spanish on Duolingo. Walked to UCSF Laurel Heights. Late breakfast from The View Cafe: egg and cheese on english muffin, coffee with half and half. More email signature work. More followup with IT about spam making it past Barracuda even though the sender is in my blocklist. Completed a logo request. Chatted with Susie and Eric about various issues including email signatures. Lunch at Starbucks: chicken and bacon sandwich, ice water. Errand: hardware store. Lots of pubs edits for Lei W (highlights). Chatted with Zev G about potentially new website work. Lots of task followup. Orgchart work. Rode Uber Pool home. Dinner at home: leftovers from last night. Recharge Medical work: print items: promo card for botox for bruxism, new outdoor large sign for lightbox. I noticed that Illustrator CS5 and InDesign CS5 are now regularly crashing upon quit probably because they were never intended to run in macOS Sierra. The day will come when I can't use CS5 anymore; I can feel it. At least it seems to work fine until the crash upon quit. Ignoring for now. This evening my 1.2-terabyte Apple Fusion drive finished decrypting, so I then successfully removed DDPE and BigFix and restarted. I was then unable to reproduce a crash when opening Sharing in System Preferences. I was also unable to reproduce a hang when shutting down. So it seems as though DDPE did cause some kind of problem for my computer when I upgraded to macOS Sierra even though I had installed the latest version of DDPE before doing so, and after decrypting and removing DDPE the problems were completely resolved. I'm glad to be done with it, at least on this computer. It took about one week for my 1.1 TB (850 GB used) drive to decrypt. This evening I also had trouble printing to both printers. It took me some time to resolve, but I did get things to work again by finding both printers' IP addresses in the web-based Sonic Pace router configuration and removing and readding the printers via IP address in System Preferences. (Later I realized this was wrong since the IP addresses may change and found path names to use instead.)