Do you want to get married in the middle of the Sahara Desert but you can’t because there isn’t a church? Not a problem anymore, simply get the Inflatable Church and be on your merry way. You still have the whole problem of pumping the massive 47ft x 25ft x 47 ft structure full of air. But you’ve got a church, and in mere minutes, compared to the hundreds of years for some of the more grandiose European cathedrals.
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So I went all freaky about the fact that I thought my box at school was compromised today because school was filtering packets for a couple of well known viruses. I’m quite relieved that I don’t have to reinstall the whole mess again. But I did learn a few things in the mean time. Most notable, I put some tools on my local computer here to help protect myself. You might find them interesting too.
I managed to insert Chipless using a key. This means that some other person can’t just easily overwrite it with some random crap they want to put up there. You can find it at freenet:SSK@WlOHUM05CM1SanXCO8qu1vGZGCQPAgM/fiction/chipless. Have fun.
I’ve been playing around with the FreeNet Project over the past night as part of an assignment examining peer to peer systems. I’m pretty impressed with it so far. It does take some time for your system to build up it’s routing tables, but overall it’s pretty cool. I managed insert my first piece of work into the freenet today. You can find it using freenet:KSK@fiction/chipless as your URL. Otherwise you can just go to http://localhost:8888/KSK@fiction/chipless to get it (you need to have fproxy running though).
Now both my desktop at school and my desktop at home have KDE-3.1 (at home it was thanks to apt for redhat). I was going to set up some NFS stuff to share my files at home with my computer at school, but that is sorta a pain. I’ve discovered that KDE 3.1 has a very cool ioslave called fish. With fish you can type fish://patrick@my.server.com/home/patrick/Documents/myfile.txt and get access to the file.
Just a little update. As of right now, I’ve heard back from two different Ph.D. programs and I’ve been accepted into both of them. I guess that means that I’m 2 for 2. Which is far better than I fared last year. I should count my blessings. Albeit, this whole thing would be much easier if I were only accepted into one program, that way I wouldn’t have to make any decisions.
I’m currently typing this from my KDE 3.1 desktop on a sunblade at school. I’ve got to say, it’s a very nice setup to have. The antialiased fonts really help out a lot. The desktop also seems fairly zippy (well, relative for a 500MHz machine of course). I’m not sure how much of this actually has to deal with me running Gentoo or not. Of course, I’d like to think that Gentoo is entirely responsible, as it makes me want to install it more on my computer, but I realize it’s probably a combination of a lot of things.
I went a redid my little seti@home script to take data off the XML version of the pages. Also, it dumps the data into the MySQL database now too. You can see more information about how I’m doing in SETI, along with my brothers, at http://patrick.wagstrom.net/misc/seti.php.
I think my broadband connection might finally be working, but I can’t be wholly sure. I haven’t any problems for the last 20 minutes while I’ve been using an SSH session. Ping times from campus to my home computer are back down to their usual 40ms. I forgot how nice that was.
I’ve put up a webpage for Project 175 where you can track my fat ass as I try to lose about 45-50lbs of lard.
So my broadband connectivity has really sucked the last few days. I think it’s because I have snow on the transceiver. It seems to be working just fine now, so the site should be better. Either that or SprintBroadband has got issues. I also managed to get everything working for the Zaurii in lab with the Gentoo Sparc box serving as masquerading box and dhcp server. When I moved the WAP11 off the main campus network, it seemed as though the performance improved quite a bit too.