On a browser downloading spree… just snagged Opera. Next is Netscape 7. Any others I should grab? I already use IE 6, Netscape 4.79, and Mozilla 0.9.x. Tiny update… 24 MB download with some stuffturned off. Ouch! Thought I told it NOT to install RealPlayer? WTF? Why did it install? Have to uninstall RealOne AGAIN…
Gotta love it… was uploading a 12 MB file when the network connection stopped on me. Hope it was not me with my 225 kbps connection! Not like I really was looking forward to installing a new compiler since the one I have appears to be really sad. It is amazing I get anything done.…
Got another project. Setting up a web server with database for the Physics; deptartment. This will be for showing fossils. It will include pictures (maybe VR rotating images later) and descriptions. Sounds like an impressive site. Got to see the planned entry. Imagine button images of the various periods. Click on the button and you see…
My achievement of the day… Haxored a Java-based GUI with a C-based backend to capture and store images from a webcam for display on the web. That last post was pretty geeky, wasn’t it?
Oooooohhhh… PS 2 down to $200. Sweet! Sony slashes Playstation 2 price Built another web server (Apache + SSL + PHP + MySQL)yesterday. Finishing the configurations and testing this morning. Once I have it finished, then I will build an identical one on the same server in order to have a quick fail-over available. UPDATE 2011-APR-17: LAMP = Linux…
Showers are particularly problematic for me because sometimes I will get lost in thinking something through. It will haunt me for days. Saturday morning I started thinking on why computers are so difficult for people to learn. It hit me that just enough unexplained behaviors occur. Once one considers all of the factors that go…
There are people I know and people I think I know via a few routes of 3-4 degrees of separation but am not really sure. So I think I recognize them and can think of why I should recognize them. Then again maybe I am just experiencing early symptoms of dementia and losing the logical facilities of my…
Had a close call with Nimda… went to a web page for server which was infected. It tried to download. Think I stopped it, but I am scanning my machine anyway.
Tech News: I’ve said it often enough… students are hackers in sheep’s clothing. This true too… “the majority of academic networks are tempting targets for hackers because of their lack of security, abundance of bandwidth and overworked administrators.”University systems a haven for hackers – Tech News – CNET.com World News: Don’t approach a U.S. Navy…