Friday, December 29, 2006

Merry Christmas Happy New Year

So my friends, it is once again that time of year.

The time where people pretend to be nice to each other in order to pretend to be religious 0r something like that. Oh well, I think its all pretty funny.

In this spirit I wish all my friends a wonderful new year and a happy and a wonderful holiday season, for all you people that don't like the word Christmas...bastards...j/k.

I want all my friends to be happy during this time of year, so I ask that you take this advice and do as I say: Give up on what isn't working, stick with what is and most importantly be happy with who you are.

In the spirit of the season, and as they say in my native German "Einen guten Rutsch ins neu Jahr!" Figure it out yourself.

=B=

Friday, December 22, 2006

Going back to Tyler

So, I am going back to Tyler after a week long "vacation".

I can't wait.

Only draw: My flight leaves at 6:00.....(A.M.)
So I need to get up VERY early.
Of course, I don't think I'll be sleeping at all.

Well either way, wish me luck.

=B=

Paper work, my God the paper work

all these things you need. it is such a stupid hassle.
I hate it when things don't go your way.
also I hate it because well, I wasted a perfectly good day.
Oh well, I'll be home soon.
YAY!!

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

It's been a whole year!!

I have been dating my girlfriend for a whole year. That is so amazing. I love it. This is only the beginning of a beautiful and long relationship.

Love you C.

=B=

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Get your ABC's of Linux right

A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
C is for cc, as hackers recall, while
D is for dd, the command that does all.
E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and
F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
G is for grep, a clever detective, while
H is for halt, which may seem defective.
I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and
J is for join, which nobody uses.
K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while
L is for lex, which is missing from DOS.
M is for more, from which less was begot, and
N is for nice, which it really is not.
O is for od, which prints out things nice, while
P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.
Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and
R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table.
S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while
T is for true, which does very little.
U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and
V is for vi, which is hard to abort.
W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while
X is, well, X, of dubious fame.
Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
Z is for zcat, which handles compression.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

This is the triumphant moment I have been waiting for!!

So I thought it would never happen, but finally I got the one thing I have been trying to get my hands on forever in order to ruthlessly and mercilessly make fun of Whitson!!

Here is the unedited, unaltered image of the great destroyer of minds:

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Happy (Belated) Birthday Chelsea

As you now know

The Senate and House are both under Democratic control, so boo!! or Yay!! Depending on how you look at it.

I just hope Mr. Bush starts using his veto power!

I would like that.

Besides that, politically not much else changed that I know of, oh well Rummy resigned. Some guy named Yates or something is supposed to take his place.

Of course things are looking worse in Iraq too, something about a bunch of people kidnapped and apparently we're supposed to be leaving in "4-6 months" according to some guy I saw on the news. That is going to be good!! Yeah!! Woo!! (Please note the preceding was sarcasm
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Post Election Day

So apparently we have the Democrats taking the lead in the House.

The Senate is still split 49/49.

Apparently Montana and Virginia are the two still debated Senate seats.

In Montana the vote difference is 1735.
In Virginia the vote difference is 7847.

If it goes the way it is still leaning the Senate will be split 50/50!!

However, as I had predicted to my friends the House was taken back by the Democrats!!

Senate

PARTY NOT UP TOTAL GAIN/LOSS
Republican
40 seats 49 -4
Democrat
27 seats 49 4
Independent
0 seats 0 0

House

PARTY TOTAL GAIN/LOSS
Republican
195 -27
Democrat
227 28
Independent
0 -1

Governorships

PARTY NOT UP TOTAL GAIN/LOSS
Republican
6 seats 20 -6
Democrat
8 seats 28 6
Independent
0 seats 0 0

Montana

STATUS CANDIDATE VOTE VOTE %
KEY RACE
DemocraticTester
194,914 49%
RepublicanBurns
(Incumbent)
193,179 48%
LibertarianJones
10,166 3%

Virginia

STATUS CANDIDATE VOTE VOTE %
KEY RACE
DemocraticWebb
1,170,564 50%
RepublicanAllen
(Incumbent)
1,162,717 49%
Independent GrassrootsParker
26,048 1%

Yesterday was my birthday

I am telling you today, because I didn't want people to know.

Either way, I had a good day.

I went out with my lovely girlfriend.

I got nice gifts.

=B=

Monday, November 06, 2006

I don't have a job or a car

So, yeah I am pretty much just complaining here.

I need a job. However I have no real job experience. To boot, I don't have a car. Oh and I can't drive. I have a permit, but I need more practice.

I need money to get driving lessons. I don't have money because I don't have a job. I don't have a job because I don't have a car. I can't drive anyway so even if I had a car I couldn't drive it.

Of course, because I don't have job and therefore no money, I have no ability to buy a car or if I had a car pay for insurance.

I don't know.

I need to find a genie and get three wishes.
1) I wish I knew how to drive excellently and had excellent skills on the road.
2) I wish I owned a car that had extremely high gas mileage, is totally comfortable, reasonably fast, and still large enough for 4 people, groceries and a spare tire.
3) I wish I had enough money to pay off all of my current expenses and any regular expenses for the next 10 years.

That would be very nice.

=Ben=

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

You know your school sucks when...

The registration server gets DOS attacks several times just because the student population of less than 6000 tries to register for classes for the next semester.

Is it too much to expect a school to have decent equipment.

I hate this place.

I have been attempting for the past 4+ hours straight to register for class. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten one class added to my schedule for Spring 2007.

I hate this place.

For all I know they've got a Pentium II/III Xeon running their registration server. Maybe only 256MB and a 4 GB Hard Drive. Of course, this is just my interpration based on their crappy service.

I hate this place, but really I don't. I just hate the hassle of registration. Of course, these stupid bastards did this to themselves. They thought, hmmm...lets add to our student population, but get rid of telereg, the telephone registration system. At the time it must have seemed like a smart idea and maybe it saved a lot of money, but let me tell you, it doesn't seem to be working now.

I mean I don't know since I don't have an active webserver, but what kind of minimal requirements do you need to have approx. 6000 users logged in concurrently into a secure session? I couldn't imagine it would be that much. Of course, what do I know.

I mean for God's sake, this school always boasts that it is part of the "UT System!" However, all I can say is that this school does NOT measure up to what I would consider even close to "UT Excellence." If such a thing can even exist. I can't stand it.

Please, if you attend UT Tyler, please respond to this blog entry and tell me what you think. Or better yet, tell the people who maintain Campus Connect at UT Tyler what you think. The email address is campus.connect@uttyler.edu. Feel free to include a reference to this blog entry if you want to. Thank you very much.

=B=

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Hey Everybody

So a few things to talk about.

One, M$ released IE7 as a "fully working" browser just yesterday. You can download it if you have XP SP2, x64 or the Windows Server 2003 line.

Two, the fall semester is more or less half over. YAY!! Now time to really start working.

Three, I gave Chelsea her birthday present early. I couldn't help it. I got her this really nice easel. For those of you who, for some reason don't know, an easel is a wooden frame on legs for holding an artist’s work in progress, as taken from the Compact Oxford English Dictionary.

She in turn gave me my birthday present. I receieved a cool Relic wrist watch. Something I have wanted for a while now. We both needed gifts. I am happy and feel better. I hope it lasts.

Fourth, There will be another Whitson Log update soon, but due to complaints, apparently, I will only be directly linking to my page to view them, so you don't have to wait for the blog to load.

Thanks and have a good day. I need to get ready for my 8 AM class.

=B=

Thursday, October 12, 2006

The Whitson Logs Continued

Okay now, here are more and more and more Whitson Logs:
THIS WILL TAKE A WHILE TO LOAD. CLICK ON AN IMAGE TO SEE IT IN FULL SIZE!
Also please I know some of my comments are wrong, but its pen and I don't care.















Monday, October 02, 2006

My Damn Scanner Doesn't Want to Work

SO, I can't seem to scan. So I can't give you my Whitson Logs. I will attempt to get by this at a later point. Either way, just an update.

=B=

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

I Love My Chelsea

I love her so. She is so great. I enjoy spending as much time with her as possible.

It's hard to say in any exact words how much I love her, but it certainly is to a great extent. She is the most wonderful thing in my world. I could not and will not imagine my world without her.

She is the most wonderful girl in the world. She is amazing.

I love her so.

=B=

So Here Is Something I don't understand

Ok now...

Now read this:

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (1984), Stanford University, Stanford, California - 94305. Thesis: A Rule-Based, Generalized Design Verifier, Advisor: Prof. Willem vanCleemput; Associate advisor: Prof. Robert Dutton.

M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1981), Stanford University. Area of Specialization: Computer Systems and VLSI.

B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering (1980), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Rank in Class: 3rd. Cumulative Performance Index: 9.7/10.0, B.Tech. Project Advisor: Prof. V. Rajaraman, National Professor of Computer Science, India (Retd.).

If you got all of your degrees in Electrical Engeering, would you be an electrical engineer? Probably, but would you be the head of CS department? I doubt it, but for some reason he is. Now I totally understand why I didn't get any of COSC 2315 (Comp Org). That class just sucked. Anyway, just my own little thought.

It's funny, cause I wrote it

Here is the long awaited first installment, of what will no doubt become a regular thing on this blog, at least for a while. The Whitson Logs.

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Monday, September 11, 2006

9/11

So CNN is showing this Pipeline thing of 9/11 as it happened. It is interesting, especially with some of the items they spoke about before anything happened, like Hurricanes.

Either way, today is a day that I won't be making my usual crass jokes, just the ones people think would be appropriate.

=B=

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Nintendo Wii will have upgradeable OS

According to this article I found on Gamefront Magazine. Of course it didn't say anything too specific. Either way sounds interesting.

One thing I particularly enjoy is the chart they have on their site showing sales of Consoles in the US they only track the PS2, GC, XBOX and XBOX360. And in the US the PS2 is on top. The first column of numbers is this past month and the second column is the total sold this year.
PS2 262.000 34.482.513
XBOX360 204.000 2.413.252
GC 41.000 11.286.750
XBOX 9.000 14.466.834


Now in Japan it is very different.
Pos System Verk.St. 2006
NDSLITE 163.274 3.967.887
PSP 29.945 1.228.844
PS2 21.829 957.440
GBASP 2.719 189.191
GBM 1.819 117.560
XBOX360 1.197 68.677
GC 837 63.116
NDS 410 952.959
GBA 14 3.013
XBOX 12 1.649
What does this tell you? I don't know, but interesting none the less, eh?

=B=

Oh and I will try my darndest to get my late blog entries on here by this evening.

I don't have a clue

I'm so very tired. It's almost all the time now.