Viruses
Mood:  hungry
Now Playing: Walking on sunshine - Katrina and the waves
Topic: work
Before I forget, viruses detected on sept. 21:

Sender: dai.lyfyitoday@okh.tsplntwk.com
IP Address: 210.5.119.50
MessageID: 7C3A21DD428
Report: ClamAV: message.scr contains Worm.SomeFool.P
MailScanner: Windows Screensavers are often used to hide viruses (message.scr)
Report: MailScanner: Found dangerous IFrame tag in HTML message


Sender: iridium42@hotmail.com
IP Address: 210.5.119.50
Subject: Re: corrected
MessageID: 9FB741DD42A
Report: ClamAV: website.zip contains Worm.SomeFool.P

RAJE's Epson LQ-2180 printer
Mood:  hug me
Now Playing: Something about you - Level 42
Topic: work
Mariliz told me the printer wouldn't work.

I found it with a 14" continuous form "fed" halfway through, and it wouldn't eject nor feed it properly in. I turned the printer off and manually reversed the form out the back.

I switched on the printer, and the form was fed automatically, with a bonus form feed (1 page skipped). I asked Mariliz to print something, and it worked fine.

Work done. Spent less than 10 minutes, including the wait for Mariliz to come back. :-)

Old PC's
Now Playing: Sometimes a fantasy - Billy Joel
Topic: work
Spent around 20 minutes putting back the covers on the CPU's I "unearthed" yesterday while troubleshooting RAJE's "upload/download" PC, and replacing them back to their "warehouse" places near my "booth/workstation."

Psion cable
Mood:  hug me
Now Playing: Sometimes a fantasy - Billy Joel
Topic: work
Another wire got cut inside the same end of the cable. Resoldered it in about 13 minutes.

RAJE1 PC
Mood:  irritated
Topic: work
RAJE personnel transferred to the newly renovated (but still lightless) room.

In the process, they managed to pull out 2 internal wires from the serial cable for Psion handheld computers.

So I fixed the cable and reinforced it, but couldn't test it because their "upload/download" PC wouldn't boot.

I tried every conceivable thing, to no avail. I tried changing power supplies, RAM, reseating cards, etc. I tried OTHER computers, but none of them won't boot.

In the end, I tried Avern's computer (from Accounting Section). I turned it off and brought it down to the RAJE room. It wouldn't boot! That's when I tested the output voltage of the AVR used on that station, and voila! Alvin Capulong plugged the two (2) PC's into the 110v socket, so that's why the old "upload/download" PC wouldn't boot! Who would've thought, when one computer was perfectly working using the same socket? :-(

In the end, the "upload/download" PC's Hard disk failed to boot. Good thing I configured 2 other HD's for the same PC.

Whew! Took me 3 hours and 43 minutes for that job!

Alvin better not show me his face tomorrow.

Posted by Samboy at 5:47 PM JST

Updated: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:30 PM JST

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Atty. Macalino's PC
Mood:  chatty
Topic: work
Liza called me to tell me that Atty. Mac's PC wouldn't switch on.

I thought there was trouble, but I discovered the UPS was *NOT switched on*. So how can the PC boot if there's no power from the UPS? :-)

That was fast, less than 5 minutes.

Posted by Samboy at 1:13 PM JST

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RAJE Psion Cable
Mood:  chatty
Now Playing: God's Mistake - Tears for Fears
Resoldered and reinforced one end of the Psion cable. They keep pulling it by the cord!

Spent half an hour fixing it.

Backup
Mood:  caffeinated
Now Playing: Conflict - Tears for Fears
Topic: work
Daily Backup (2 sets) just finished.

Viruses
Mood:  hungry
Topic: work
Sept. 18:

Sender: carolina.munoz@corporate.ge.com
IP Address: 210.5.124.36
MessageID: F375E1DD428
Report: ClamAV: message.scr contains Worm.SomeFool.P
MailScanner: Windows Screensavers are often used to hide viruses (message.scr)
Report: MailScanner: Found dangerous IFrame tag in HTML message

Sept. 20:

Sender: ccyalung@picazolaw.com
IP Address: 210.5.117.124
MessageID: 6186E1DD428
Report: MailScanner: Found dangerous IFrame tag in HTML message
Report: ClamAV: message.scr contains Worm.SomeFool.P
MailScanner: Windows Screensavers are often used to hide viruses (message.scr)

Boss Babes' request
Mood:  rushed
Topic: work
Whew! My hands are aching from editing the scanned document. I had to type several paragraphs in, because the OCR didn't quite get the text correctly.

It's now 5:20pm, about 3 1/2 hours after starting the scans. :-(

I forgot to burn the Saturday backups because of this rush job. :-(

I'll just burn the Main Office copy and bring it home.