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What? What was that?
What is that subject? What could it mean? And why only four bytes worth? Because I don’t want to get sued!
This guy seems to have the right idea, and he must not be as worried about getting sued.
What? What was that?
What is that subject? What could it mean? And why only four bytes worth? Because I don’t want to get sued!
This guy seems to have the right idea, and he must not be as worried about getting sued.
My Firefox is working on POSTDATA at the school network!
Just in time for the rest of my machine to get that year-old feeling that always tells me I need to reinstall XP (after finals).
There is a picture on this article that (even edited for publishing) is not very friendly to the eyes, but it’s quite a news story.
It is always a bit disquieting to me when a teacher puts “Good Luck!” on a take-home essay exam with a week to the deadline. Should one need luck with infinite resources and near-infinite time?
Thinking of more fitting alternatives, however, would probably just create more panic:
Take-home essay exams are kind of nice, because they are probably the closest realistic thing to my ideal grad-level assessment, which is sitting down with the professor one-on-one over coffee and talking about the information in the class, voicing opinions and drawing conclusions.
The bad thing is that it is basically a purely subjective crapshoot, where perhaps the largest operating constraint on success (beyond baseline writing efficacy) is the grading style of the professor.
Anyway, I’m pretty happy with how all these take-home finals look, and I’m looking forward to getting them done.
I like (hate) how verbs work in English:
Each of you has great work experience.
You each have great work experience.
At least, I’m pretty sure that’s how it works.
Apparently, people are already using the term “Storage Cloud,” and it’s not something I just coined here on my rented couch.
My thesis in this poorly-developed thought here is that NAT and the ISPs’ mafia-style sequestration of everyday users from static IP addresses are two major institutional blockages of personal, encrypted storage clouds, which is my area of interest.
We already have public media-oriented storage clouds in YouTube, all the questionable content on Twango, and the early Web 2.0 products of every other ex-dot-com entrepreneur’s remaining hopes and dreams.
DRM is another institutional blockage, but it’s not a big deal to me, as I don’t really deal in DRM’ed stuff. But to the iPod masses (who don’t…shh!!!…burn their purchased content and rip it back to MP3), it’s a biggie.
NAT and stateful firewalls at the ISP have kept the collective “us” from exposing services to the web. This was, and still is, for our own good as an Internet, but we can get these services running on OpenBSD toasters now that are not going to bet the farm on shaky first-run code (i.e., Windows Home Server, which doesn’t even do anything close to this if you wanted it to).
I need my files everywhere. I want my local mail (stored locally, not on GMail where my “beta” profile, or worse, can get wiped at random). I want them over a very SSL-laced VPN, through a means that transcends the rat maze of private IP address mappings and firewalls.
Maybe VPN is the way to go, but it’s still nice to have a static IP at the server end, which “we” still can’t get without a Faustian contract and an exchange of a firstborn.
Oh, and I used “rig” at some point in my blogging life, which makes me want to hang myself in effigy.
Don’t have a Rage Against the Machine song in your head before a 3 hour run of presentations, especially when you don’t know the words to the song.
You end up singing, “Bow-wow-whacka-bow-wow, whacka-whacka-whacka, bow-wow-whacka-bow-wow. Kooweditnow!” all the time.
It’s never good to trust a freebie, unless it’s actually free.
If I were in the market for a laptop now (even though I am not), my top two major-market choices would be a 14-inch Dell Inspiron or a 13-inch MacBook. Averatec has many compelling options at the 13-inch level, as well.
This is all very odd.
I hate shopping for laptops, which is why I’m doing it for “fun” now, because they suck so bad I tend to find myself somewhat uninformed regarding current market offerings.
I don’t trust HP, no way, no how. The two key HP laptops in my life have two distinct problems:
I know a lot of people do very well with them, though.
Toshibas are great, but they are quite delicate. They tend to have very scratchable surfaces and things that tend to go bump and click after use.
Compaq… ha! Gateway would be okay, I guess. Nothing much to be excited about. So, why not just a Dell?
Sony laptops are way too expensive when you go south of a 15-inch widescreen. Why you pay more for less eludes me, although it seems Sony is trying to charge you to be cool.
Anyway, this isn’t very interesting, so I’ll quit.