Rinsefirst

It’s been an interesting day so far. One that I wish would get over with a little bit faster than it has. I’ve been at work all morning, during which, the amount I’ve got done has been quite small. I’m trying to solve a problem with the application I’m working on, and just thinking out a solution seems to be difficult. It’s one of those where the overlying structure was designed for one thing, and I want to make that one thing do something it wasn’t designed to do, and anytime I change something in one, the other breaks. Blah…

I need to do some stuff for Derek and Denise tonight, as well as get back to work on some of my stuff. I would love to have some time to do some coding of my own. Perhaps soon I will file my 2 weeks notice. Maybe sooner than later.

I had an interesting post idea like 10 minutes ago. I don’t remember it now though. That said… This post ends here.

I figured after having so many rounds of this no update thing, that I wasn’t going to make you wait yet another week for a post, instead, I thought I would update in this window of time while I wait for an email to bounce back to me.

I just completed my CSCI 5106 homework for today… I think I can officially say that was one of the more simpler homeworks, but more interesting ones I’ve had in awhile. Simply, it was to write the reverse and suffix functions in 7 differen’t languages. They included:

Scheme (Lisp)
ML
Haskell
Prolog
Pascal
C
and JavaThat brings my list of languages which I can write something useful for to something that looks like this:

HTML
PHP
Mysql
Mssql
XML
XSL
C
C++
Java
Javascript
VB
VBscript
Scheme
ML
Haskell
Prolog
Pascal
T-Basic
Q-Basic
Dos Batch Scripting
Bash Scripting
Csh Scripting
Perl
Python
Logo
Lego Logo
Matlab
Asm x86
CSS
Make syntax
and probably a few others that I either don’t care to count, or don’t think are worth putting here, or that I’m just plain forgetting.Pretty long list.. I wonder how many more I’ll learn here at the U, at work, and before I die? I wonder how many things I will know when I die. I wonder how many things I will have forgotten by the time I die. It’s a curious question, and hopefully… Well, there is no hopefully. Life is what it is, and right now, it’s school.

For refrence: This weekend I played DDR on friday on the new DDR Extreme. Pretty good game, lot of good songs, most of which I already had. Had a great time dancing and meeting Mykala (sp) for the first time. Saturday, I loofed around for awhile because I was tired, then followed that up with a movie night at might house where Nikki, me, and Amber watched Life is Beautiful and 9 Months. Weird combination, but we know kids do not come from flowers. Today I went to church, went to Amber’s G-ma’s to have dinner with her family, and spent all the time in between doing homework. The homework has already been mentioned, so I leave it there.

I believe it’s time to go home, burn a cd for class tomorrow, and get some sleep. "Good Night World"

I find it amazing how people kindly remind me to post when I go on these 2 week vacations. It’s been awhile since I’ve missed updating so badly, but as you can tell… I managed it this time around.

Many of you saw my post yesterday and were probably thinking, what the heck was Justin doing? Simple answer: I was showing Derek, my youth pastor how my blog worked. Just a simple demo that started my posting again. It seems that that works out best for everyone.

So where is this post going from here? Well, let’s sum up some of the more major events or the last 2 weeks:

School has been going fine, 1 class boring, 3 all right, 1 class fun.
Amber is doing great so far. Her grades right now are probably better than mine… But I just submitted my first assignment yesterday.
I now have Amber’s Parking spot.
Amber’s cousin had a b-day party where we discovered a game called Zuma.
JR Corps is in the Black for this month.
JR Corps had a very frustrating server crash last Saturday.
JR Corps got a new design.
MSA had a frustrating server crash on Labor day. A new server is coming.
MSA is staring Computer club back up.
Blaine and I continue the struggle at our jobs.
Went to my first college party and took 2nd place in a student poker tournament.
Won and cashed out 200 dollars on Party Poker
Purchased and recieved a Dell laptop (more to follow)
Church has started back up.Pretty quick sum up ain’t it?

Let’s talk about the laptop. Amber and I ordered matching Dell D600’s. Very cool for school. I have dual batteris in mine so basically I could go 6+ hours sitting in lecture doing my homework, or some other activity. Needless to say I’m getting more done now than I ever have before. It also means Amber can be online from the U.

John is having a DDR party on Friday. Sounds like it’s going to be a blast. We’ll be beating extreme 2 in no time.

Here’s a tip for those of you that have problems accessing certain services from various locations. Find a location that you know works, and setup a VPN for it. For example: In the IT building I can’t FTP to JR COrps or check my email. But, I can VPN to the U of M network (that are two different networks) and then I have complete access to anything I would on the U network (IE: email and ftp). VPN: Very Proper Networking (in my mind). (it’s actually Virtual Private Network).

Well, that is the sum of my last two weeks. Let’s see if I can’t post a little more often now.

To Do:
CSCI 5106 Homework
CSCI 4061 Homework
ART Homework

Justin is a demo to Derek

This isn’t really a post… Well it is… My last class today get’s out from EE-CSCI 3-125. I think then I will go shopping with Amber. Server still down at MSA… That sucks.

This post is purely for the purpose of speaking to my counterparts at MSA. Hopefully they will read this and follow it. This is how crappy a server failure can be.

What I’ve done:

Restored Internet using the student server as a gateway. Although this isn’t the best solution to our problems, it was the fastest and most reliable at the time. If a computer isn’t working, it needs to have it’s DHCP repaired which means either reboot it or disable and enable the network connection. Note: you probably can’t repair it due to a problem with trying to drop the gateway entry.
Downloaded FC1 disk 1.
I did more than this, but needless to say, it was all for nothing.What I need you to do:

Check on the teachers tomorrow and keep them calm.
Download FC1 disk 2 and 3 to the laptop
Burn FC1 disk 1, 2, and 3 to CD.
Remove teacher server from rack. Remove processor from teacher server and install into Zues. Remove ram from teacher server and install into Zues. Do not put the spare hard drives into Zues.What not to do:

Do not attempt to install FC1 for fear that the data on home will get erased.What I will do when I get there at about 7:30 tomorrow night:

Install Fedora and rebuild the firewall. God be with me.Night world…