Monthly Archives: August 2003

I might get another assigment

I might be getting appointed as the webmaster for thw writing center here at UT. They need a web scheduling page for their appointments and I have been nominated. They want to use me as a grad assistant or something, … Continue reading

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Woke up to the sound of sirens

I woke up this morning and looked out of my window to see a bunch of cops cars there with lots more showing up. I guess they finally figured out that this guy (the hairy weirdo) was holed up here. … Continue reading

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Really weird hairy person

There is this really weird hairy person staying in a van in our private parking lot. He is an old tenant who was evicted a couple of years back. According to my neighbors, he is a Magician who went out … Continue reading

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Miscellaneous

First day of classes. I caught up on all the stuff that was piling up from the past two weeks. I took care of most of it. I replaced the file upload script for Dr Ledgard’s Automata class with something … Continue reading

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“luchi” and Bengali Chicken Curry

I had the whole week off and Jennifer had the whole week full of nasty work She had been wanting to eat some Luchi for some time now. My mother cooks very well and her luchi are fluffy and very … Continue reading

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Testing Auto ping to Blogrolling.com

Testing 1….2….3….4444. Fixed the bug with pseudomoods where if the mood was left out of the post, it would output an image not found. Here is the fix. Under your b2-include folder, look for the pseudomood.php file. Look for: $name=substr($row[mood],0,-4); … Continue reading

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BCIS updates

I guess I was wrong about the INS and how I had to sign up for 9 credit hours BEFORE the beginning of the semester. I called there today (because Dr Makki is still AWOL) and I am supposed to … Continue reading

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Netgear RT314 Gateway Router

Matt (Jennifer’s brother) had an extra Netgear RT 314 router that he was never going to use and he gave it to me for the time being. I needed some of the features of the router and was getting really … Continue reading

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Toledo Automatic Garage Door

Give Peace a Fighting ChanceI went out for lunch with Jon (Infinite_Loop), Dave, Al and Greg to Ipoh. That place is great! The food is underpriced, friendly service and it is a nice place to hang out. After we got … Continue reading

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W32.Sobig.F@mm

The new variant of w32.Sobig, the W32.Sobig.F@mm work is spreading fast through the Toledo networks, along with almost every other network in the world. I have personally (to my webmaster account) received over 50 virus carrying emails today. Everyone should … Continue reading

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New summer pics of Condo

On the request of my parents (who live in India and I am the ONLY kid!) I have taken some nice summery pictures of my condo. Here they are. The full slew of pictures can be found at The Summer … Continue reading

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Summer is almost over

Summer is almost over for me and all the students that attend the University of Toledo. This is the last week of relaxation and “fun”. Personally, I am not as worried about the classes I have taken as the ones … Continue reading

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Zonkboard

With the RPC worm still creating havoc with the internet, I noticed that my zonkboard was really increasing the load times for my page. I needed another local solution. After looking around quite a bit, I found something called Shoutboard … Continue reading

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Finally get some time off (albeit unexpected)

I found out yesterday that I will not get paid for my webmaster position for the next 2 weeks because my TA ended on the 8th of August. Al told me (my boss) that he would talk to the chair … Continue reading

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Stupid RPC worm!

If you are reading this post, then you are one of the more lucky people to have gotten through. The whole Buckeye Express network is affected by the RPC vulnerability in Windows 2000 and XP right now and my cable … Continue reading

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Death to Spam

About this time last year me and Jon (Gernsey) wrote a Spam filtering application for our Knowledge Mased Systems class at the University. It was written with Paul Graham’s article A Plan for Spam in mind. Jon presented this article … Continue reading

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Testing b2moods

I wonder how this will show up. I have been in the mood to test and impliment hacks and I keep modifying my website. I hope people dont mind

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Hardware Issues

I finally figured out that the power supply that I was building the new machine with was bad and needed to be replaced before I could get it to boot. So I replaced my server power supply with the one … Continue reading

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Long time no post

I am finally done with my Teaching assistant position (almost). I have to publish the final grades tomorrow and I should be done. Dr Kapoor from Bio Engineering (ex dean of UT) wants me to go and see him tomorrow … Continue reading

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Complete site redesign

The Mozilla thing was bothering me enough that I had to try to fix it. The more I tried fixing the CSS, the more it broke. So I quit trying to debug others code, and rewrote the CSS myself. This … Continue reading

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Site looks terrible in Mozilla Firebird

I recently downloaded Mozilla Firebird from the Mozilla Webpage and I have to say that this is a REALLY good browser. I am impressed with the speed mostly. I have a lot of RAM and the browser does seem a … Continue reading

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This should be a busy week coming up

Finals week is upon us, which means that I will be really, really busy grading, coding, typing and doing other fun things for the department. I am looking forward to this weekend. I am tired of the everyday routine of … Continue reading

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This is a test posting from email

This is a test from my email client, I am posting from Eudora. This might be really useful when I am on the road and looking to get some thoughts down on the screen. How weird does this sound?? Cheers!

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