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
Tags: Android, code, PythonDear 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
Tags: classy, cookies, school, SPSUI’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
Tags: email, hostility, school
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.
Tags: misspellings
Today at around 3:30pm, a felon escaped from police custody at the Waffle House across the street from Kennesaw State University. He was being transported from Orlando, Fl to Tennessee when he broke loose from the officer and managed to get out of his handcuffs. From there, he ran on to Campus.
Apparently he was spotted, or the police dogs tracked him to (I’m getting conflicting stories) the wooded area next to the science building. Which is where I have my classes. By luck, I wasn’t in the building, I was a couple of buildings away.
Then came the lock down. We were ushered into the nearest buildings and locked inside, and crisis management teams were posted at the entrances.
From my own point of view, Kennesaw’s response to the situation was quick and appropriate. They cleared the outside of the buildings of students to allow the police dogs and choppers to work more efficiently while ensuring the students’ safety. The parking garages were the most dangerous places the students could go, so they prevented us from leaving campus.
Granted, there were some hiccups in the system. Whatever the reason, some of the students were allowed to leave before the “all clear”. I myself was allowed to leave the building I was in and wasn’t stopped until I headed for the Science building. No one even told me the situation until I asked a student what all the helicopters were for, despite my passing a crisis management team on my out of a building.
Once the all clear signal was given, it took another 45 minutes to actually get off campus. In this case, it was because the police were searching all of the cars for the felon. We were given a visual inspection, and anyone driving a car was required to open his trunk.
Of course, being a suburb of Atlanta, there was plenty of news coverage, and news choppers were flying overhead during the entire incident, proving a constant droning soundtrack during the situation. Fortunately, that means that you have plenty of other stories to read, so you don’t have to take my word for it.
Remember listening to Bob Ross talking about happy trees? Remember that sense of peace and calm? Well, now you can experience it again. BobRoss.fm broadcasts Bob Ross talking 24/7. So you can use it to relax after that hectic drive home, or use it to fall asleep, or use it to paint your own landscape scene. Whatever you like.
Calmly.
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Looking for a simple, elegant way to tell someone exactly how you feel?
Can’t bring yourself to say it out loud? Or just want that couple of extra seconds to run away before the muscle-bound jock realizes he wants to punch you? Give him the douche card.
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