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I coded a little Python script for ASE which silences the phone’s ringer at a specified time, and un-silences it afterwards. Perfect for when you want to receive phone calls in the morning, but don’t want to hear the email chirp when you get spam at 2am.
Details are on the project page.
http://github.com/docblades/Silent-Night
Dear Students:
Our last mathematics colloquium this term is scheduled for next Monday, 22 February, at 3:30 pm in H203. Our speaker is John Loustau, Professor of Mathematics in the Dept of Mathematics and Statistics at Hunter College of the City University of New York, in Manhattan. Dr. Loustau’s talk will be about recent and ongoing work he’s been doing in the area of approximation. This is interesting and deep work that builds on classical results like Gaussian quadrature. He will explain his results using only elementary tools. Please see the flyer here for more details oustau. htm Coffee and cookies will be unveiled upstairs n Building D at 2:45.
We’ll have the usual classy spread, including brand name cookies served on a chipped plastic platter and rea Half-n-Half I hope you will join us for this student- friendly event.
Dr. Dillon Mathematics
I’ve noticed from browsing forums and from my own personal experience, connecting to any WPA encrypted wireless network in Ubuntu is less than stable. In my own experience, my connection stops every 10 or 15 minutes.
To solve this problem, I recently switched to Wicd and now I get a nice stable connection on my home wireless. But here at Southern Poly, I had some trouble connecting to the wireless network. After some googling, I found this script: http://wicd.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=200. What I’m follows is a step by step HOWTO for connecting to Southern Polytechnic State University’s wireless network in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.
sudo apt-get install wicd
It’s going to want to remove network-manager, but don’t panic, you won’t miss it. After the install, the gnome panel is going to complain about network manager not working, but this is also normal.
sudo mv ~/Desktop/eap-ttls /etc/wicd/encryption/templates
sudo echo eap-ttls >> /etc/wicd/encryption/templates/active
So, I got this email from the registrar today, and it just drips with hostility. Read along and see if you agree.
(I read the extra spaces as pauses where the writer is trying to give me the stink eye down the web-o-tubes)
edit: added subject, equally disturbing
(or how to write a shameless plug)
She makes some neat stuff, and is only selling this stuff to offset the cost of the gazillions of beads and stuff she’s buying. And she takes requests. What’s not to like?
I keep trying to convince her to make some nerdy jewelry. Like a millenium falcon necklace, or stargate earrings.
Step 1) Learn to spell your sponsor’s name.
Step 2) Give up on “Colage.” You’re not going to pass the intranse x-am.
Step 3) Focus on the skills that will help you later in life. Like running a McDonalds cash register, or finding a good park bench to sleep on.
This special thing about this one is that the spam filters let it through. Usually those spam filters catch just about everything. I’m impressed.
It almost looks official. All of the links in the email go to their correct addresses at Google, except of course for the “Click Here to update your account” one.
It goes to some website at http://accupdategmail.110mb.com, which is a pretty good spoof of the gmail login page. Except that the space counter doesn’t go up, and it’s only at 2 gigs instead of the 7+ that we have here in 2009. If you’re fool enough to log in, the page captures your account name and password and dumps you back to the real login page.
Needless to say, I wrote a nasty message in the “password” section.
For all of us grammer Nazis who get all offended when people use the English language incorrectly, there’s a new blog just for us.
Literally, a Web Log covers press conferences, newspaper reports and other errata that incorrectly use the term “literally”. Like “I literally love this!”, or “I can literally taste that chicken from here.”
Maybe reading this will reduce the urge to go on a grammer rant in the forums literally every time someone sucks at language.
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