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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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My Wife’s Etsy Page

Christian Blades — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:02:36 +0000

(or how to write a shameless plug)

http://flutterbeads.etsy.com

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.

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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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Who Else Has Received This Fishing Email Claiming To Be From Gmail?

Christian Blades — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:07:08 +0000

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.

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I’m Literally, Literally Reading a Blog

Christian Blades — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:35:38 +0000

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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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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