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Silent Night – Script for Android’s ASE to silence the ringer at night

Christian Blades — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:49:56 +0000

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

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Classy – This is why I love my school

Christian Blades — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:05:29 +0000

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

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Connecting to SPSU wireless in Ubuntu with wicd

Christian Blades — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:26:00 +0000

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.

Add the wicd package

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.
Download this template (eap-ttls) to your desktop and move it to your /etc/wicd/encryption/templates folder.

sudo mv ~/Desktop/eap-ttls /etc/wicd/encryption/templates
Now add the template to wicd’s active list

sudo echo eap-ttls >> /etc/wicd/encryption/templates/active
Start wicd.In the menus, click “Applications”->”Internet”->”Wicd Network Manager”
Find “hornet” in the network list.
Click Properties.
Leave all of the choice boxes unclicked except for Use Encryption.
In the drop down box, choose EAP-TTLS
Under Identity, type your user name (the part of your school email address that comes before @spsu.edu)
Under Password, type your password. The same one you use for your school email.Your property window should look like this, now.
Click Ok.
Now click Connect and you should be good to go.

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Hostile Email from the Registrar

Christian Blades — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:57:19 +0000

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

Subject: Fall Term is Paid (for now)

Good day,
This note is to let you know that you are registered for classes and your schedule has been “paid” either with a legal means of payment, with financial aid, or through a contract.

I write to let you know that you are registered and paid, lest you think you are not, and thus, expect your schedule to be removed at some point. As it stands right now, we are expecting you to attend fall term.

If you agree with this assessment, you need not write back. Just start classes on time and continue with the term.

If you do not plan to attend this fall, please remove your courses, or let me know and I’ll do it. There are many student seeking seats and if you aren’t coming, it would be good to open them up.

Otherwise, thank you for registering and taking care of payment, and we look forward to serving you this fall.

Please let me know if I can help you with anything.

Regards,
Steve H.
Registrar

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Hate to break it to you, but you’re not getting into college

Christian Blades — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:36:27 +0000

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.

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WTF Wednesdays – ROFL?

Christian Blades — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:08:36 +0000

They’re called “Chuckle Buddies”, but frankly I’m scared.

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Felon Escapes From Police Onto Kennesaw State Campus

Christian Blades — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:15:02 +0000

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.

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Bob Ross Radio

Christian Blades — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:16:10 +0000

BobRoss.fm

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.

[BobRoss.fm]

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Oh, Domain Squatters

Christian Blades — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:19:30 +0000

When will you stop being completely inappropriate?

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The Douche Card – Tell Someone You Care

Christian Blades — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:30:05 +0000

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.

$5 for 25

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