Today’s to-dos:

• prep test hidden account
• finish prep of VM
• perform MS-requested diags

What I did:

• Printer image quality comparison; Win vs. Mac
• Account issues for sprovenc re dtoby(?) and djw re lbrault
• Email prune
• Saved of cell RFP responses
• Completed prep on VM
• Compelete requested diagnostics for MS tech suppt.
• Met with MS Technical Sales rep
• Sent phil contact in Athl re fp 13743
• Responded to Carol re shaas (14070)
• Closed issue 13592
• Responded to cnepton(13074)
• Forwarded DR article to mjg
• Help Nick O. in ACCESS with domain join
• read some of Wesley’s notes on working with wordpress
• downloaded and unpacked most recent wordpress (1.5)
• discussed with Dean possibilities for distribution of software covered by MS Campus Agreement

I will spend much of today working with MS tech support on the hidden OU Group Policy issue.

• email review and purge
• reviewed planning docs
• Creating virtual machine for GP trouble-shooting
• Set up second CLJ3500 printer
• Finished printer setup; netreg, dns, Windows printer setup, email to staff
• Cloned the VM
• Requested a test consultant (i.e., hidden) account
• Helped mcaha with file permissions in Windows
• Created footprint (14078) for Barbara Goldsen re Palm Sync
• Installing Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Beta 2.
• Scheduled discussion with Matt Hickey, MS Technical

• Created MS incident re GP/Hidden
• Created qtrees for phil
• Called campus planning
• Called mstraigh in St. Johnsbury ext. (14035); open
• Called cmlee in BMT (13906); closed
• Closed cnepton > acitve directory migration with fp email (13074)
• Set psychiatry aed to 15-May-2005 00:00:00; responded via email.
• Printer setup
• Conversation with Michael G.
• Finished printer setup
• Performed manual firmware upgrade on the new CL 3500n’s external en3700 using FTP
• Completed printer configuration
• Updated fp (14035) with mail from mstraigh; closed

From a great online course in Assembly programming:

http://chortle.ccsu.edu/AssemblyTutorial/Chapter-29/ass29_13.html

Converting Representation from Decimal to Binary

Often you need to convert a decimal expression like 7.625 into a binary expression. To do this, first convert the whole number (7 in this case) to binary (111 in this case), append a binary point, and convert the decimal fraction to binary.

To convert a decimal fraction to Base 2:
Repeatedly multiply the decimal fraction by two. After each multiplication, copy the bit (0 or 1) that moves into the one’s place
(the place just left of the radix point) to the right of the binary fraction, then erase it from the decimal fraction.
Stop when the decimal fraction is zero.

(Note: if this never happens, stop when you have enough bits in the binary fraction.)

For our example: 7.625 is 111.101₂.
In this case the conversion stopped when the decimal
fraction changed to zero.
This may not always happen.

Doctor Twe offers some helpful explanatory material, including:

Long Division in Binary
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/problems/jindani.6.6.00.html

which links to

Binary Subtraction
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/problems/houston.7.25.96.html

Complement of a Number
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/problems/steve.7.10.96.html

Morning Edition, April 7, 2005 · Ravi Shankar, the renowned master of the Indian sitar, turns 85 on Thursday. He is considered one of the world’s greatest musicians, and continues to give concerts, tour, teach and compose.

In the latest report for the NPR/National Geographic co-production Radio Expeditions, NPR’s Susan Stamberg travels to New Delhi, the capital of India, to meet with the artist.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4578267

Fresh Air from WHYY, April 6, 2005 · Brad Bird is the writer and director of the Academy Award-winning computer animated Pixar film The Incredibles, about a family of superheroes doing their best to blend into their suburban neighborhood by not using their powers.

Actors Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter and Samuel Jackson provided the voices, as well as Sarah Vowell, who also stars on This American Life. The mix of everday settings and extraordinary abilities has turned the animated characters into celebrities, and a new Collector’s Edition DVD of The Incredibles is now available.

Bird previously directed the animated film The Iron Giant. He has also worked on The Simpsons and King of the Hill.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4578508

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work. Work in pairs.
Make testing an integral part of your work. That all sounds like
Extreme Programming, right? True–but it’s part of Extreme System
Administration too! Andrew Cowie’s “Extreme System Administration”
examines some lessons of XP and agile development and argues that
they apply equally well to system administration:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/03/31/extreme_admin.html

Catholic Doctrine on the End of Life

All Things Considered, March 30, 2005 · Michele Norris talks with Father John J. Paris, professor of bioethics at Boston College, about Catholic doctrine concerning the end of life. He discusses church teaching on the subject and a 2004 statement by the Pope on administering food and water to patients.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4568147

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;216393

using command-line utilities, AD Users & Computers, and via script.