Bliss...

Bliss is having only one minute left on the ghost when it said 300 hours an hour ago.

Things keep getting worse...

So I have everything done except for one lab which is being more stubborn than anything I've ever messed with. As we speak the broadcast has 256 hours remaining. Which I guess is better than the 309 hours it started with. And this is probably the eighth time today that I've started a broadcast in that lab. If it doesn't jump down to under an hour soon, I'm going to give up. I'm convinced that there is either something horrendously wrong with the server or with the image, but only time will tell, and hopefully not 256 hours.

Ghosting is of the devil...

Well, continuing the work... I ended up single casting all of the computers in the library study lab (26) which took all day, but then they all worked fine, so that's cool. I'm currently ghosting the CS research lab, but things don't look so hot over there. I finished one, and it got stuck at the boot loader, so I'm praying at least one of the six will work. I guess my last post was right... all the trouble on Friday was just the beginning. Well, at least my boss will be back tomorrow so he can show me how to fix some of the errors I've run into this weekend.

A sign of things to come...

Well, I started my fall break shifts this morning, still 7 1/2 hours to go today. It started off trying to ghost the research lab, but the ghost boot disk failed and my boss is in a meeting so I can't get a new one yet. I really hope the rest of the weekend doesn't consist of a bunch of failed tasks.

Fall Break...

Well, it's been a whole week since I've posted, that's because I've been quite busy. Core and computer science projects kept me occupied for most of the time. Work kept me occupied for the rest.

Now I'm working for the weekend. No class on Friday or Monday so that means lots of hours, rolling in the dough. I work 6-10 tonight, 8-4 tomorrow, 6-11 sunday, and 8-6 monday. Come November 12 (pay day), I'm going to be rich.

Comments...

Sorry about not approving your comments, I forgot that I had set it up so that I had to approve them before they got posted. It is effective, however. I had to deny some advertisement that tried to post in my comment box.

I don't like Core assignments. If I should have to read philosophy and write papers, then all the people who are taking cop out majors should have to pass calculus in order to get a diploma. All they require for non-math/science majors is the equivalent of what I took in sixth grade. So I want their sixth-grade english assignments as my english requirement. I'm not bitter. At all.

Tuesday...

I thought today was Monday a few minutes ago, but I guess time is moving faster than I thought. I've been playing Civilization IV a lot lately, like probably too much. I sit up at night and glance at the clock about every half hour thinking, "I should go to bed now," but then another half hour passes. Dang it. I should really have more discipline. Yesterday we had another frisbee game. Pulled another win out of our butts with a second half comeback. I didn't play particularly well except for one or two plays. I should really work on my forehand. Like a lot.

Wel, back to homework...

Rain...

Today it rained. Like a lot. Especially once I started playing frisbee. As most people know, I'm primarily a defender when I play frisbee. I'm not great catching and definitely not great handling. So it was really wet and we aren't allowed to wear cleats. Needless to say, there were a few collisions, mostly between people and the ground, but also a few between more than one person. This happens enough in dry ultimate, but in wet frisbee it gets brutal. On one particular occasion I was sprinting for a deep pass and slipped on the sidewalk which is the goal line and proceeded to take out a guy twice as big as me. It was an accident so they didn't call a foul, but I was going full speed, and he landed on top of me so it hurt... a lot. But we won despite having a maximum of two subs, playing one player down the entire game, and them having enough players to make a complete line change and still have players left over. Good job guys. Keep it up.

Glad that's over...

The week is finally over. The tests weren't as hard as I anticipated, but they sure made the week seem pretty hard. Pete's (my data structs prof) tests usually take me no more than 25 minutes and the rest of the class's papers trickle in until the end of the period when about half the class turns them in finished or not. This week I spent 45-50 minutes on his test, and was the first one done, with only five minutes left. Pete realized that he had made the test longer than he intended and gave the class 25 more minutes to work on it yesterday. That was good for me because I got to leave early.

Recently I have been spending a lot of time on research. It's nice because it's like a big puzzle that I'm trying to solve, and it keeps my mind off other things. I get to go work by myself trying to find out the inner workings of computers and networks. I just recently installed MySQL onto our project's server so that I can create a mock database that I can start testing. You may not understand what I'm about to say, or even what I just said, I apologize for that. Even though this shouldn't be my area of research, I want to get it done because my research depends on it, and the person who should be doing it, isn't. So I'm going to figure out how to take the stream of network packets from the sniffer and put them right into the database. Early on, it will be very inefficient, but at least we will have something that allows about half our team to actually do something. I mean, if it were efficient, what would we have left to research? So then, after I can get the database to start receiving information about the traffic going through the sniffer, I get to start running triggers. A trigger is something that watches for 'events' happening in the database management system (DBMS). They often times are tied to security. For example I may have a trigger that logs all the changes made on the database. I want to know if someone goes in and manually changes the database because all the information should be hard-coded directly into the network packets and directly translated into my DBMS. So my trigger would then fire, sending a signal or a message to a log file that lists the timestamp and information that was changed. Man, this is exciting, I'm really looking forward to having triggers with thousands of signatures, like virus-checking.

ahh, CS...

-AZ

Sad day...

Today was the hardest day of my semester so far.
I have a Core 250 test at 10:40 immediately followed by a Data Structs test at noon. These are my two hardest classes. Core is hard because it's totally objective and I like the black and white things. Data Structs is just the hardest of my three CS classes I'm taking.
Wish me luck tomorrow, I'm going to need it.

Sleeping...

I've slept a lot lately. Like a lot a lot. But I'm still tired. I get 7 hours of sleep on the weekend and 8 hours of sleep during the week with naps in between sometimes. Why am I still tired?

I guess it's about time...

Recently I've been a very busy man (Yes, man, I'm 20 now). A man, yet I find myself reverting to some things that I thought I had grown out of. For example, using prepositions at the end of a sentence. The other day I accidentally showed up my math teacher in class. It was very minor, I just told him that 51 wasn't prime, but the whole class Oooo'ed (which I guess was a tad immature for college students).

Anyway, yeah that was weird. Maybe I'll start posting again...maybe. I work a lot so that gives an opportunity to post what's on my mind, like "I should be studying right now but..." -stupid philosophy stuff. And math is getting more philosophical lately too...what is up?!?! We discussed different levels of infinity. If the infinite is not absolute because there's always a larger infinity that can fill all the holes in between all the elements of the smaller infinity, then what is really universal, what can contain all other things. GRRR!