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2002-10-26 14:55:00

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2002-10-26 14:55:00
“We could not save everyone. Forgive us.” — Vladimir Putin after Chechen rebels killed 90 hostages. Update 10-28: It was later discovered that the gas used to knock out the terrorists killed the hostages. Russia has been critized for such. But I think it was the safest method overall. If the gas was not used everyone would have been killed. The fact that 600 were not killed is astounding.

2002-10-25 20:05:00

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2002-10-25 20:05:00
“If all the Chinese simultaneously jumped into the Pacific off a 10 foot platform erected 10 feet off their coast, it would cause a tidal wave that would destroy everything in this country west of Nebraska.” –Fortune

2002-10-23 23:29:00

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2002-10-23 23:29:00
In the Computer Science department many students go over their quota on the lab computers and ignore warnings. Ken (my boss) deletes their files at random which results in the following situation…

Angry Student: “Why you delete my files?”

Ken: “I don’t like you.”

2002-10-22 22:48:00

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2002-10-22 22:48:00
surreal unconciousness
my last coherent thought was, what am i…i have to find out what i am…its important. i should be doing something important to save my life..who am i? there’s a bunch of white dots..i must be a white dot..what am i supposed to be doing? i started to panic (it was scary for a white speck) then everything went black. 

The thought before that was think, i got to think about what i’m thinking… ….oh …what was i thinking? i lost it! what was i thinking? what am i?

2002-10-18 00:06:00

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2002-10-18 00:06:00
Bachelor’s life: Cooking

Tonight when i got home from school my poor stomach hadn’t eaten in eight hours. (its important to remember that nine hours is fatal).  

So i cooked myself a hamburger….and just in time.

2002-09-28 13:03:00

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2002-09-28 13:03:00
Scenario for Company: employees don’t regularly backup files. some files need to be shared across network. some employees have laptops. os varies from win98 to winxp. company needs to connect ~10 computers to the internet with 3 IP addresses. …budget for project: low. 

Solution: requires 1 server with FreeBSD, IPFW (firewall), ISC-DHCP, NAT (gateway) and Samba (to emulate Windows file sharing). 2x15GB HD. 256MB Ram, Dual Ethernet ports. Total cost of hardware: < $300. Total cost of software: $0.00 

Implementation Part 1: rebuild kernel with firewall and divert. configure nat to translate packets from lan to internet. install dhcp for automatic client configuration. block all ports except SSH from external network. configure Samba. 

Implementation Part 2: ..backups Map “My Documents” folder on all computers to users’ /home folders on samba server. this means everyones’ “My Documents” will actually be stored on the server. nobody will know the difference (unless the server goes down). create “pub” folder for file sharing. write backup scripts to make incremental backups of everyones’ “My Documents” folders. 

Total labor: 2×10 Hours. Thanks for helping me Meredith! I couldn’t have done it in one night without you.

2002-09-21 17:54:00

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2002-09-21 17:54:00
Educational Software Made by Newbie Programmers?

They did it again. As you can see, this Spanish tutorial CD is having a difficult time installing itself from the “D” drive because my CD-ROM is “E”.

The programmers made a bad assumption that because their CD-ROM is on “D” everyone elses is.  

Unfortunatly this seems to be an ongoing trend with Educational software. I have had problem after problem. The worst was Career Direct which after installation my computer would not boot up until I had re-installed Windows.

I have also had random system files replaced by another Spanish tutorial. Whenever I see software for “Education” I cringe at the thought of installing it on my computer. 

2002-09-16 17:41:00

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2002-09-16 17:41:00
I started my new job as …hmmm I’m not sur ewhat my title is. I’m a webmaster of some sort working in network services. They gave me a Sun Solaris workstation. After installing Solaris 8 on it I am dissapointed. Just to get an SSH CLIENT installed (which comes standard with most flavors of Unix and is a simple 1MB download for Windows and Macintosh) I had to download a openssl, openssh, gcc, libgcc, prmdg, and a 70MB OS patch collection! I worked on it for 8 hours and it was still installing the OS patches when I left work.  

I’ll wait on forming my final opinion until I get it working. But right now, Solaris doesn’t even compare to Linux or BSD.