Archive for the 'school' Category

October 17th, 2007

Get the Weather on your HP 4200

Miscellany: Get the Weather on your HP 4200
The program uses the perl Geo::METAR module to parse METAR weather information from NOAA. You’ll need to install the module if you don’t already have it (and you probably don’t). Install it using ActiveState’s PPM for Windows and the CPAN program (or OS package manager) for everything else. [...]

September 7th, 2007

Latte Factor

So I had my ironic class last night.  I say it’s ironic because it is a personal finance managment class all about saving money but the books for it cost $160.
Anyway, we were asked what our “latte factor” (his definition was “how much do you spend without thought / keeping track?” ) was and at [...]

May 30th, 2007

Public Role for Grads

Ex-President Urges Public Role for Grads - washingtonpost.com
“You are only a free person when you recognize that every moment of every day, no matter what happens to you, no matter what is said to you, no matter what is done to you or your crowd, you still are free to decide how to respond.”
I was [...]

May 29th, 2007

sweet sweet interwebs

Finally the move is mostly complete (brian just has a few things left, my old apartment is CLEAN and empty)
and I finally, just a few minutes ago, got set up for the sweet sweet interweb connection that i have been craving.
I don’t know what i will do @ work today without my home computer to [...]

April 10th, 2007

imaging laptops

so i spent like 3 days imaging 2 laptops and trying to figure out why it didnt work.
turns out i renamed the wrong image, so i was sending a super old / crazy who knows what it even came from image to the laptops.
plus
Reset Windows security back to default settings
secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb [...]

March 12th, 2007

What’s In A Name?

RIT: What’s In A Name? - Home
RIT academic buildings, residence halls and who they were named after.
actually, I never saw this before, and its pretty darn cool

February 9th, 2007

6 feet?!

Snow keeps upstate New York shoveling - CNN.com
Since Sunday, the small towns of Parish and Mexico have recorded more than 6 feet of snow, and forecasters with the National Weather Service say it isn’t over yet.
check this picture out

January 24th, 2007

snow

RIT - Webcams
Eastman Quad Webcam

If you don’t go to RIT, you may not be getting tons of fluffy white snow, but we are so you can look @ the webcams and be jealous!

December 1st, 2006

happy december

Tin Foil Soldier

Temp: 43°F
Wind Chill: 36°F
Humidity: 100%
Wind: E at 15 mph
Clouds: overcast
Conditions: light rain
It is December in Rochester, isn’t it supposed to be snowing?
it finally got cold last night, but this rain has got to go

November 15th, 2006

finals week

in the lovely world of Quarters, it is finals week and I have 2 more left to go (one in 8 hours and another in 14)
after that, back to the internets!

November 1st, 2006

bad drivers

on my way to and from class I cross a 4 way stop intersection.  Today when I was walking home, I saw 12 cars go through the intersection.  2 of them came to a stop.
2 out of the 12 cars actually came to a stop
some of them never even braked
one coasted to the stop sign [...]

October 6th, 2006

claws

Welcome to Claws
Welcome to the CLAWS project homepage
RIT CLAWS is a modular software package that provides account and identity management functions in a heterogeneous computing environment. Claws consists of:
* The CAT central server
* A web administrative client
* A web self service client
* A PHP client API
* Numerous modules including:

Identity database
History and attribute tracking database
Kerberos 5
Active [...]

September 7th, 2006

Imaging Science

Schedule 20061 Imag Sci Fundamentals Anthony Vodacek 08-2365 1051-215-02
Today we had another prof come in and demp a thermal imaging camera
and it was pretty much awesome
I want to see someone naked with a thermal camera… hehehe
I went up front, and, being a nard, took my laptop with me for a thermal shot of my laptop.
you [...]

September 4th, 2006

class etiquette

class etiquette lesson one

If you are late, do not interrupt the professor while he is talking to ask for the syllabus, especially if he is not talking about the syllabus at all
If you have no idea what you are talking about, do not try to correct the professor at the beginning of the first class, [...]

September 3rd, 2006

school starts tomorrow

RIT Institute Calendar - 2006-2007
September 4, 2006 Daytime Classes Begin
September 4 Evening Classes Begin (6 p.m. or later)

gotta remember to charge my laptop so i can browse the web while I pretend to pay attention