Tuesday -
- Tape Inventory
- More EmuMail Migration work… Updated the list of valid LDAP users (2462) w/ EMU Mail folders (776) that have been accessed in the past year (225). My initial count was 295 but that was from an old list of valid LDAP users that included 3268 users in all; before the deletion of last year’s class, back from September of 2007.
Wednesday -
- Backups
- NISC8 reboots – NISC8 wasn’t cleanly coming up after its reboots. I converted its daily reboot schedule to a weekly one to minimize the amount of attention we spend on it every morning. A weekly reboot should be suffice to clear its memory leak and return it to normal service.
- AHT & ASD Images on bootable USB keys. Apple has a new procedure to use external USB drives for its Apple Hardware Test (both OS & EFI versions). We purchased a few 8 Gig USB thumb drives and I was able to get the new AHT on them, but I still need a fairly recent computer to test them on.
- RAM Upgrade for an old PB G4 (12″, 1.33 GHz)
- EMUMail conversion – We ran another EMUMail conversion (our 2nd since announcing our phase out plan). Things went well except for the fact that EMUMail will sometimes fail to update the number of messages in each folder after message deletions. It makes accounting a bit of a pain.
Thursday -
- Replacing a SuperDrive in a MacBook (13″)
This week has flown by.
One of the disks in my Mac @ home has died a horrible death, making all kinds of grinding noises and the like. It is not allowing the other drive to show up so, either the bus is dead, or its a single drive that is preventing the other from showing up. I should pick up a 500 Gig ATA drive before they become extinct.
On the homefront end of things, Mali and I will be working on the kitchen this weekend. I’d like to get the the countertops installed, the dishwasher prepped for installation, and the end panel of our cabinets (to hide the dishwasher) figured out. If we can manage all of that we can probably begin to do the plumbing and install our new sink on Sunday. We’ll see how much progress we make.
Laters,
–Raf