Helter-Skelter

Helter-Skelter

I have no idea why, but when I installed Norton AntiVirus 2000 on the associate dean's computer this afternoon, to remove the W97M.Panther virus he'd been e-mailed, the Eudora plug-in reconfigured his POP account from "username@acad.uni.edu" to "username/acad.uni.edu@127.0.0.1" Needless to say, this didn't work too well, as he isn't running a POP server on "localhost".

NeoMagic is quitting the graphics chip business, according to this story over at News.com. Hurrah! Their chips were rather underpowered for my tastes, especially when compared to the Rage Mobility chips from ATI. It's too bad I'll still have to use one of them this weekend on the Sony VAIO I'm taking home...

Still no fax from FileMaker, I'll call them again on Monday...

My office is a mess today, as you can see below. The Bad News is that this has pretty much disrupted my entire day, since I've hardly even been able to check my e-mail, much less get any work done at my desk. The Good News is that we're getting more power and network jacks in my office. We were on a single circuit with the whole lobby of the building, and a classroom next to me as well. If we plugged in more than 5 computers at a time in this office, we'd trip the breaker! It's a good thing I've got everything on a UPS. Here's a snapshot: