Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Month: October 2002

  • Death, Destruction, & Mucho Caffeine

    Made the paper twice in one day: New WebCT upgrade currently being tested Viruses, spam, Pipeline upgrades await VSU users Go me? LAN Party tomorrow night… woooooot! Setup tonight. Death, destruction, and mucho caffeine the next 2 nights. 12 hours driving the day after. WOOOOT!

  • LAN Party tomorrow night… woooooot! Setup tonight. Death, destruction, and mucho caffeine the next 2 nights. 12 hours driving the day after. WOOOOT!

  • Made the paper twice in one day: New WebCT upgrade currently being tested Viruses, spam, Pipeline upgrades await VSU users Go me?

  • Viruses, spam, Pipeline upgrades await VSU users

    Here is an article on computer viruses, spam, and the new portal for which I was interviewed for the Spectator, the university student news paper. Josh Stone Campus computers are getting sick from e-mail viruses and spam, but Information Technology staff members say they have medicine to fight the problem. “We can’t really eliminate them, but we…

  • New WebCT upgrade currently being tested

    Here is an article on a WebCT upgrade for which I was interviewed for the Spectator, the university student news paper. Mirabai Oyao WebCT now has an upgrade available and VSU expects it to start operating after graduation in December. “In the past we have been hesitant about upgrading our [VSU’s] system because we [the…

  • Horde

    Dependencies sux… knew IMP required the Horde Framework, PHP, MySQL, and Apache. Horde requires MySQL, gettext, and mcrypt (don’t find out those last 2 until one reads the directions for installing it from the download cause they are not on the site). So get all the Horde stuff done. Ready for IMP, right? Oh, wait… you…

  • Dependencies sux… knew IMP required the Horde Framework, PHP, MySQL, and Apache. Horde requires MySQL, gettext, and mcrypt (don’t find out those last 2 until one reads the directions for installing it from the download cause they are not on the site). So get all the Horde stuff done. Ready for IMP, right? Oh, wait… you…

  • My conversation with an AI. Ezra: What’s your IQ?SC: Wow, you ask interesting questions. I don’t know the answer to that!Ezra: Why not?SC: Why not?Ezra: Asked you 1st.SC: Oh. {CLARIFICATION} AI = Artificial IntelligentSC = SmarterChild (an internet messenger-based supposedly artifically intelligent conversation program – you talk to it like you would a person and…

  • SmarterChild

    My conversation with an AI. Ezra: What’s your IQ? SC: Wow, you ask interesting questions. I don’t know the answer to that! Ezra: Why not? SC: Why not? Ezra: Asked you 1st. SC: Oh. 😀 {CLARIFICATION} AI = Artificial Intelligence SC = SmarterChild (an internet messenger-based supposedly artifically intelligent conversation program – you talk to…