I swear, it took me 10 minutes to get access to TTU-WLAN-1 from the top floor of Brown Hall today. At least one other WAP not shown above was on channel 11 earlier — I think its name was “Free Internet Access”. So there are 5 networks running on channel 1 (one scrolled off the …
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Just upgraded to WPMU 2.7, and check out this spam count
2219 spam comments, nearly all caught without my direct intervention. And the Spam Karma 2 footer claims to have eaten over 11000 spams since I set this blog up.
re:PocketMod – DIY Tiny Paper Organizer
I’m not giving up my Treo 700p as my regular organizer, but there are times when I recognize the advantages of paper. re:PocketMod is a site with a Flash application on it that lets you lay out and print 8 pages of information onto a single 8.5×11 sheet of paper. Properly cut and folded, the …
Free PGI Visual Fortran Compiler for University Students and Faculty
Free as in gratis, not free as in libre. But this may be good for home use. Go here to register and wait for your confirmation email to arrive.
DIY Planner style TTU Campus Map
A user over at diyplanner.com posted a simple campus map and course information template for college students. I thought it might be useful to make one for TTU. So here you go: PDF version, ready to be printed onto two side-by-side pages. Not sure why the fonts didn’t completely translate over. OpenOffice.org version, ready to …
If The Title of This Post Contains the Word “Tennessee”, Will It Attract Human Spammers?
As noted before, I do love Spam Karma 2. 4000+ spams eaten over the last 18 months or so, and it’s nearly perfect as far as I can tell. But it didn’t catch a couple of… terse… commenters on this post about a presentation I was about to give. One commenter seemed rather irritated, and …
Where’s MarcoPolo for Windows?
MarcoPolo, “context-aware computing for OS X” appeals to all three great virtues of the programmer: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. It makes me want a Mac notebook. Unfortunately, Pro/E, ANSYS, and other necessary tools for my regular work would mean I’d end up dual-booting the Mac all the time. And I’d miss my port replicator and …
Upgraded to WPMU 2.5.1
Joy. Upgraded the site to WPMU 2.5.1. Took a while to reconstruct my restrictions for new users and blog creation, and I’m switching out some syntax-highlighting plugins, too. We’re nearly ready to unleash this on a horde of unsuspecting graduate students. Code Example: [sourcecode language=’php’] /** * This holds the version number in a separate …
Stupid Puppet Trick: Identifying Groups of Hosts
My Ruby skills are practically non-existant, but I’ve managed to put together a relatively readable custom fact for identifying my Torque queues by a node’s hostname. Behold, HostgroupFact! Now I can factor out my hosts.equiv files back to a parent class, rather than duplicating the same file specifications on a per-queue basis. class cluster-host inherits …
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Stupid Puppet Trick: Poor Man’s Undo
If I apply a set of classes to a puppet client, I may need to roll back those classes’ changes later. Granted, I could just edit out those classes, reformat the system, and rebuild it from scratch, but there may be times when I want to undo my changes in a more granular fashion. So …