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Monthly Archives: November 2003
I put up some Christmas Lights!
I put up some Christmas Lights and I wanted to put up a couple of pictures for my parents to see. So here they are. I love the color blue! My rant for tonight is the poor quality of notes … Continue reading
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Someone famous from close to home (Toledo)
Want to know what a good education from a simple local college can lead you to? Ever hear of Jeremy Zawodny? He was born in Toledo, went to BGSU and graduated with a degree in computer science. He worked through … Continue reading
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OpenGL textures for polygonal objects
I have spent most of this week (amidst mouthfuls of turkey and other goodies) trying to understand our second last OpenGL project. We are supposed to render a VW bug (co-ordinates were provided to us) and a bunny, put them … Continue reading
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The Blog Explosion
I need to find a chart of weblog growth… I was just over at Technorati and noticed the “weblogs watched” count went over 400,000 today (it’s at exactly 400,091 right now). It was only March 5 when the 100,000 mark … Continue reading
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One of the most adorable webpages I have seen in a long time
Kittens!
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Blah weather
The weather is darn blah! I have not interest in doing any work. I need to get somewhat done with my graphics project over the next couple of days and then look at my thesis a little more closely. I … Continue reading
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How many of my readers go shopping on the day after Thanksgiving?
I tagged along with Jennifer last year while she went shopping in the wee hours of the morning. It was a very strange experience. The lines stretched further than the eyes could see and yet people came coming. I remember … Continue reading
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Vulnerabilities: Thomson Cable Modem Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability
The TCM product line are cable modems distributed by Thomson. A problem has been identified in Thomson Cable Modems when handling long requests on the HTTP port. Becaus……excerpt from: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9091
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Found a couple more bugs
Found a couple more bugs which have been removed or gotten around, comments control should be working for MT as well. It was not MT, but my own code BooBoo! As if you didnt know already, I am talking about … Continue reading
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This is a test post from blogPost
I figure now that I have written my own application, I should use it myself. This is a post from blogPost and I guess i ran into some error trapping problems which I did not foresee. It should be fixed … Continue reading
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Quiet Release of blogPost 1.0 Beta
I have most of the work done for blogPost Beta 1.0. Here is a small list of features and bugs. #Features include (for now), posting to multiple blogs, comment and ping control, category control, –more– and –excerpt– modification ability. #Bugs: … Continue reading
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gregspr0nmunkees
Greg finally relented and now he has a blog! I am working on Ed and Jon. But in the meantime, look up GregsPr0nMunkees.com when you have the chance. We could get a closer look at Greg as we know him … Continue reading
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Dell to stop outsourcing Tech Support from India
I am really surprised to NOT see this bit of news all over the blogworld! Dell has decided to stop outsourcing their techsupport from Bangalore, India. Instead they will be handled by tech support personnel from call centers in Texas, … Continue reading
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Stupid rumor mill
I have gotten quite a few comments and emails recently about the University of Toledo stopping the admissions of International Students into our graduate programs. This is quite untrue. There are major budget cuts in the EECS department and the … Continue reading
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Almost finished with postBlog – my XMLRPC Blog posting application
This was a very nice weekend. I got to do what I really wanted to do. I coded. I am almost done with blogPost. This application (written at my own behest, to learn) is a client application to post to … Continue reading
Call for help
Help Gayathri, a student at FIU, where my friend Vinay Puri Studies. She was hit by a speeding car, and the insurance cap of $250,000 has been exceeded. Her parents, like those of most Graduate Students cannot come to the……excerpt … Continue reading
Two very interesting links
Incorporating mouse gestures for Internet Explorer using Javascript (on your personal blog/homepage) I dont know how useful this is, but it sure is a cool way of doing this. Many browsers (including myIE and Opera) already implement this. Here is … Continue reading
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Vivendi burning MP3.com library to the ground
Vivendi has announced that it’s flushing all the music it hosts at MP3.com down the toilet: …they’re not selling the archive, containing more than a million songs by 250,000 artists. As of December 3rd, they’re destroying it. Link (Thanks, Proclus!)…excerpt … Continue reading
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Very interesting ideas forthcoming in the Blog anti-spam debate
I have a couple of vested interests in erdicating SPAM from my blog and from the rest of the Blogosphere. There are some interesting discussions (and disagreements) brewing in the various listservs and dev-blogs that I regularly visit or subscribe … Continue reading
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This has been a sh*tty week
This has been an exceptionally unacceptable week. It started off with very very long nights on Saturday and Sunday in trying to finish the physh OpenGL project. I had a tad easier time on Monday with nothing being due, but … Continue reading
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Welcome to a narrowcaster’s dream
But I’ve never heard of any of these artists… Say hello to iRATE radio. The premise is simple: mp3′s collected from various free sites are collected and indexed on a common server. You, through your spiffy iRATE client, are fed … Continue reading
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More action on the BLAM! front – the Spamosphere
Jay, Dougal, Mike and others interested in the future of SPAM,I am really not ignoring this list, I wanted to make sure that what I said was not just a retort, but a well formulated and thought out answer. Jay, … Continue reading
G4 Cube fishtank
Got a dead, orphaned Apple G4 Cube lying around? According to the ancient traditions of the Mac-faithful, this is a signal that you are to get out your caulking gun and turn it into a fishtank. Link (via MacSlash) …excerpt … Continue reading
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Interesting weather we have here!
This is what I like to call the Monsoon season of Northwest Ohio. We have been having wet and sloppy rain in spurts and bursts throughout the last couple of weeks. It is dark and depressing outside, not too warm … Continue reading
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ATTENTION, MALES WHO WISH, FOR PURELY SCIENTIFIC REASONS, TO SEE THROUGH CLOTHING
Remember these? Well, now they have these. (Thanks to Jared McLain) …excerpt from: http://davebarry.blogspot.com/2003_11_01_davebarry_archive.html#106918403230339845
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Comment SPAM eradication research ideas
I have finally had the opportunity to sit down and put my thoughts together while having an email conversation with Martin Remy of http://www.Waypath.com . Here is a collation of my thoughts. Please feel free to email me for clarifications … Continue reading
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How did your blog name come about?
Here is an excerpt from a recent thread of conversation from the WP support forums that I like to help out at. I have used the nickname LaughingLizard since my undergrad days. I did nothing special to think of the … Continue reading
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Crazy Crazy weekend!!
I pity the foo The OpenGL Physh are done for the time being. By the time I had all of the needed functionality built into the program, it was 4:30 AM. I woke up again at 8:00 to go to … Continue reading
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Elsewhere: Uni virus writing course ‘is madness’
A PLAN to teach virus writing at university has come under severe criticism at a conference of the Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers. “Stopping virus writers is……excerpt from: http://www.securityfocus.com/elsewhere
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