Okay, so there was this big ECE 270 exam tonight that I was kind of worried about. Well, it's over (for me at least). I don't think it went that badly…but it has definitely left me with an eerie feeling. Maybe it's just me, but 75% of the exam was the same as the practice. Oh, the numbers were tweaked a little, but the same equation applied; the same problem solving methodology was used. The other 25% actually required you to apply a little bit of knowledge, but not much. Anyway, I finished it in a little over half the time allotted. And that was even having done a bunch of problems twice, and having double checked every answer. Anyway, I think I got ~ 70% on it, since there were enough numbers that I probably miscalculated/used the wrong value for something, and I wasn't that confident in the first half of the stuff before the exam.
On the whole, last week pretty much sucked. Too much work, too little sleep, too many things just going wrong.
Anyway, this weekend is looking better. Didn't get as much sleep Friday night as I should have (especially considering that I'd only gotten 5 hours in the last 2 days....), but I managed to get halfway through Firefly. I then finished up the other half Saturday. Definitely a fan now, and sad that it was cancelled. Kind of reminds me of Farscape, but without the aliens. The best description I've heard of it is a "sci-fi western", which definitely makes it a unique series. I went and saw Serenity last night (it's Firefly on the big screen), and liked it a lot. It was diffferent than the series, with more action, big explosions, more unexpected events (:(), and on the whole it worked well.
Anyway, I went to see it by myself, which wasn't that bad last night. But then this morning I woke up and was feeling lonely, so I did what anyone who's feeling lonely does...Server maintenance! umm....errr...okay, so maybe not everyone does that...let's try again: Log analysis! errr...okay, so that second try at something that people do when feeling lonely didn't work out so well...how about Write a Blog Post! Yay! That one fits!
I did do server maintenance (hence the site being down for a bit this morning), and log parsing. (Now would be a good time to stop reading if you're squeemish about the fact that I can look at the log files on my server...and then post about it)
So, here's a big "Hi!" to people outside my network who have visited my site in the last month (excluding search engines/bots, and in order of most hits per client ip):
- Taylor
- Liz (you can tell who uses RSS maybe?)
- Me (Remus Sun system)
- Some person in Tarkington
- Emil
- Me (Borg Sun system)
- Mom & Dad
- unknown IP
- unknown IP
- Annie
- Blake
- some client in Physics 44
- Me (Purdue Wireless)
- unknown IP
- some guy in Cary Quad
- some person on HomeChoice in the UK
- some person on Telestra
- some person on Concentric.net
- bunch of unknown IP's
- some person on Palestine OnLine
- unknown IP
- some person or people (there's A LOT of IP's from this one) using Time Warner Cable
- some person at Pfizer (you're probably looking for my Dad, not me...he does chemical stuff, I'm a student/IT guy)
- a bunch of unknown IP's
- some person on Charter Cable
- some person on DXI Networks
- bunch of unknown IP's (again)
- some one from Sympatico.ca (is that part of MSN now?)
- and finally, a bunch of unknown IP's
hmm...now that's got me wondering...how many of those hits were actually with my site as an intended destination?
Okay, so ECE homework is a lot more frustrating than it should be. So now for a quick break, with my quote of the day!
"Go XML! It's the glue that binds the universe together...forget that gravity crap." — me
This weekend I got drafted into cat sitting for my parents. It hasn't been that bad so far (tomorrow's the last day), except for their constant need for attention. I thought cat's were supposed to be nice, independent creatures that could occupy themselves...
Things I got done:
- Took recycling to recycling center
- Cat sitting
- Watched a bunch of movies
- Slept a lot
- Unified Solaris-Windows Server authentication and authorization infrastructure working!
- Exchange DB at work offline defragged to bring it back to safe levels (15.8 GB -> 13.7) (for the time being...Please hurry with SP2, MS!)
- Cleaned my brother's computer of virii & boot problems
Things I didn't get done:
- Finish the reply to Taylor's next-to-last email (sorry...I'm working on it!)
- Finish the reply to Taylor's last email (no, I haven't forgotten about you...I've just been backlogged with tons of crap)
- Get to the grocery store to get bread, milk, & soda...grrr
- Complete the ECE 270 homework
Oh well...there's always next weekend...and beginning of this week (maybe).
A caveat with Search: when going to an area of the site where search is accessible, the search on that page is restricted to the list its in.
I.E., if you're in /blog/, only my posts from the blog will be returned (no comments).
Now that I've remembered this little limitation, I'll bump getting a new interface with search integrated up in priority.
I had FOUR attempts at this post that got eaten by security-timeout-because-this-has-a-crappy-web-only-interface-for-creating-posts.
CONDENSED, abbreviated version:
Issues can have wierd dependencies and causes.
A few days ago I noticed that Taylor ( http://mysite.verizon.net/taylor_venable/) had a post complaining about the supposed requirements for Windows Vista (the post appears to be gone now...is that permanent Taylor?).
Anyway, I'd like to point out that I can run Windows Vista Beta 1 fine on my pathetic 1.86 Ghz CPU, with 504MB of memory & integrated graphics.
I was going to create a more extensive refutation of these complaints (and I've heard them from a bunch of people other than Taylor), but got lazy, had a little Compilers project to finish, and didn't get around to it. Good for me. The little poster on my wall next to me right now that says "Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now." proved true yet again!
An individual (identity is being withheld to protect the innocent, and because the comment was made in a restricted forum) recently left the following comment for me:
May I suggest that you try to get comments to work on your website as your current project?
Now, I didn't actually do any work on this site in the ~5 months that it was offline. None. Nada. Zilch.
So the comment situation is as stands: if you use a supported browser, they work. The set of supported browsers is currently defined as "The browsers Jeffrey uses, with a few older versions that just happen to be compatible." I use IE7. Versions back to 6.0 SP1 are also supported directly, as I occasionally have to use them. But that's not all...you can also go all the way back to IE 5.01 and still have them work.
Honestly, I'd love to get them working for other browsers, like IE Mac, Safari, Firefox, Opera, Mozilla, and telnet. But I just haven't been able to get around to it. If someone else can figure out what's causing comments to not work if those non-supported browsers, and provide me with a fix, I'll be more than happy to try and get them to work. But for now, I'm going to stick with having given up on them.
:( (or , for those Unicode devotees)
Oh yeah, and btw, the site's back up. Go Verizon for FINALLY getting this working (only took 6 weeks...).
Right now I don't have any major plans for site renovation...maybe adding spell checking to my workflow for blog postings...eventually I'll try and get a "Summary of my Summer" post written up and posted.
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