More ungf...
Jan. 26th, 2007 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoWell, representatives of seven libraries attended the meeting this morning to plan the next steps of the rebellion. It's really happening now, not just a possibility. And an eighth institution plans to be part of it, but did not attend today.
I spent much of the day replacing printer drivers. The last color inkjet printer we will ever buy finally died a couple of weeks ago, and we have replaced it with a color laserjet (Ricoh Afficio CL3500N) with full Postscript. That's great for the Linux machines especially, since they won't have to waste cycles on translating Postscript to PCL or raster images any more. But it meant I had to go around and switch the printer definitions on about 20 machines. The Linux ones were easy, just point the print manager to a different definition. The worst were the Gates Foundation machines that run Windows (of course) with a big pile of patches over the top to harden them against abuse and hacking (at least in theory). You see, in order to switch a printer definition there, you have to first remove all the user profile restrictions, then add the new printer for each user independently, then reinstall the profile restrictions. Oh, and to do that and make it stick, you have to remember to first boot the machine with the key inserted and turned to the unlocked position. Otherwise CenturionGuard will back out your changes as soon as the machine reboots. Finally you have to reset the key to the locked position and reboot another time.
By the time that was all done, the meeting was over so I went and removed the computer equipment from the meeting room, since we don't yet have a locking cabinet for it in there.
Temperature has been dropping since sunset, and now there's black ice all over the roads because it was well above freezing today and stuff melted into puddles. Letting the horses out tomorrow should be an adventure.
BIG! solar flare on the far side of the sun yesterday. The bursts of flame were visible all the way around the edge of the solar disk. When that surface spot gets to our side, it may be more active still, leading to auroral displays. Well, we can hope, but the full moon will probably mess that up.
Ready for bed again by 9:30 pm. This will never do.
I spent much of the day replacing printer drivers. The last color inkjet printer we will ever buy finally died a couple of weeks ago, and we have replaced it with a color laserjet (Ricoh Afficio CL3500N) with full Postscript. That's great for the Linux machines especially, since they won't have to waste cycles on translating Postscript to PCL or raster images any more. But it meant I had to go around and switch the printer definitions on about 20 machines. The Linux ones were easy, just point the print manager to a different definition. The worst were the Gates Foundation machines that run Windows (of course) with a big pile of patches over the top to harden them against abuse and hacking (at least in theory). You see, in order to switch a printer definition there, you have to first remove all the user profile restrictions, then add the new printer for each user independently, then reinstall the profile restrictions. Oh, and to do that and make it stick, you have to remember to first boot the machine with the key inserted and turned to the unlocked position. Otherwise CenturionGuard will back out your changes as soon as the machine reboots. Finally you have to reset the key to the locked position and reboot another time.
By the time that was all done, the meeting was over so I went and removed the computer equipment from the meeting room, since we don't yet have a locking cabinet for it in there.
Temperature has been dropping since sunset, and now there's black ice all over the roads because it was well above freezing today and stuff melted into puddles. Letting the horses out tomorrow should be an adventure.
BIG! solar flare on the far side of the sun yesterday. The bursts of flame were visible all the way around the edge of the solar disk. When that surface spot gets to our side, it may be more active still, leading to auroral displays. Well, we can hope, but the full moon will probably mess that up.
Ready for bed again by 9:30 pm. This will never do.
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Date: 2007-01-29 02:23 am (UTC)