Wahoo! Start work on Monday. Ed is in Asia. I'm in the say a lot mood.
Tuesday April 27 2004 @ 1:28 PM
The University of Toledo and Kent State University both use a product from SCT Corporation for registration and student records. They both call it web for students. I wanted to suggest a feature for the service, but Kent State couldn’t help me so I decided to call SCT. I went to SCT’s website, but for the first 10 minutes I tried, I got “Document returned no data”. I found their number on the internet using Anywho.com and a whois to see what state. The first time I called they transferred me to the Employee Help Desk number which referred me to the OPUS web site (Online Password Utility System). I went to the website and it worked, so I tried their homepage again. After about 50 redirects I got to their fixed height and fixed width homepage. I got a phone number (1-800 this time) and called that. They transferred me to the “access center advanced call processing unit” [which I first wrote down without the advanced which has an acronym ACCPU (ass poo), kind of funny (hysterical)]. They mention the “Action Line” in the recording, which is also quite humorous.
The actual web for students system is quite poor. You can’t use Safari, It has java-scripted session expiration, doesn’t remember semesters or campuses, and (the feature I requested) doesn’t have the ability to e-mail you when a class becomes available. Oh, and its all based on forms and POST so back and forward buttons make the page self-destruct.
That’s my adventure and experience with SCT.
Monday April 12 2004 @ 4:47 PM
Wow, it?s been a while. Work on CEInfoBar is progressing. School is? well school (which is not a good thing, but better than Toledo). Easter was fun, got to see Ed and some other friends of the family. I?d say I can?t wait till summer, but what can I do so that I don?t have to?
I?m helping with the Daily Jolt; I bet you never saw that one coming. It?s a great idea; they just need some help with the design. Unfortunately, there?s not much I can do since the ?national? DJ is in charge of most of it, and they obviously shouldn?t be designing websites.
I?m helping with the Daily Jolt; I bet you never saw that one coming. It?s a great idea; they just need some help with the design. Unfortunately, there?s not much I can do since the ?national? DJ is in charge of most of it, and they obviously shouldn?t be designing websites.
Tuesday March 16 2004 @ 11:10 PM
I have convinced Ryan that it was a bad idea to put the stickers up. He seems like a nice guy, it's too bad he had to get me angry like that. Also, the DailyJolt site is pretty bad. Its information overload and is confusing. He won't make a Kent portal that?s not affiliated with daily jolt because of all the "perks" he gets from the DailyJolt Corporation (like ads, crappy templates, and beautiful stickers!).
well I'll say this... it probably was not a good idea to put the stickers on people's door, as I understand that can be construed as a personal, even almost private thing, and I understand why you would be upset, even if not understanding as to why it merits that much argument instead of just removing it and continuing on...but irregardless, I'll make sure it's not done again...
Tuesday March 16 2004 @ 4:27 PM
The DailyJolt is an organization that creates portals for many universities all over the country. They dont get visitors from word of mouth, but by advertising all over the campus by sticking stickers on EVERYTHING!
I've been in communication with the person responsible for the stickers here at Kent State, and he seems to think that its 100% OK!
So, I've created this poster for all to see! If you agree, print it out and put it on your door, or some where else on campus. Spread the word!
I've made the PDF file available. Enjoy!
Tuesday December 31 2019 @ 2:58 PM
Here's is a cool bug in explorer. Notice no name column, and no way to "remove" it and then put it back. COOL! Too bad I don't know the steps to repeat the bug. =(
What I think happned was that the name colum was resized to zero width. If this happned to the size column, you could just remove it, then put it back to fix it. But since name is dissabled, you can't fix it that way. OOPS!
Saturday March 13 2004 @ 10:39 PM
Fixed some bugs in my list box. Worked a little on this and that. Not much else to report. Spring break is in a week. HOW EXCITING IS THAT?
Saturday February 28 2004 @ 1:52 AM
My friend Keith over at kano.net has some pages of for your viewing pleasure. First off is the "The Java is Faster than C++ and C++ Sucks Unbiased Benchmark" page. This clearly states that C++ sucks and backs it with some strong evidence. Java is king, of course.
Second is the "Font size values in various IM clients and web browsers" page, which I helped with (see all those obscure, Mac browsers? Thank you, Thank you.).
Second is the "Font size values in various IM clients and web browsers" page, which I helped with (see all those obscure, Mac browsers? Thank you, Thank you.).
Monday February 23 2004 @ 9:17 PM
For those who didn?t already know, orkut blows, for many a reason. It works like crap, was written by typical lamers, and its greatness is fictitious inspired only by its mystery.
On the plus side, you can stop worrying about not getting invited, because chances are, every one who is on it got so fed up with how crappy it is and left.
Monday February 23 2004 @ 10:54 AM
"Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered/Straight (GLBT/S) Alliance: Planning Meeting"
Transgendered and straight obviously should not be different items in the list.
Transgendered and straight obviously should not be different items in the list.
Tuesday December 31 2019 @ 2:07 PM
There?s about 1 million things wrong with the diagram, don?t try to think to hard about what it has to say, you may hurt your self.
If I understand this diagram correctly, the only way for data to get out of the forums and knowledgebase is through e-mail, which incidentally doesn?t go to the users or the business? Looks quite productive?
The knowledge base is a vast data sink-hole. Data goes in, but it never gets out.
The ONLY way to get data out of anything in this system is to A) Be one of the select few to get the data randomly through e-mail/NNTP or B) An ingenious new e-mail based command prompt interface. Additinally, the only retrievable data comes from the users, and not the business.
There are two times as many people working in the business than are users.
The users do two times as much data input than the business, which turns out to be a 4 to 1 ratio of user-data input over business-person-data-input.
Tuesday December 31 2019 @ 2:23 PM
UPDATE:
Apparently, the thing cought fire, and the fire department came, and did something. They left no notes, and the RA just told us this a few minutes ago. How strange.
Last Tuesday, I submitted a RapidTrack Ticket with Kent State University because our micro fridge (that came with the room) was not cooling anything in the refrigerator or freezer. This became apparent when my roommate had left a jug of milk in the refrigerator and was not cold when he took it out (it was un-opened to my recollection).
On the rapid track website it says:
Which I would assume would NOT be on the weekend.
When my roommate came home this evening (Sunday, February 15, 2004) he found the micro fridge displaced from its original position, the cord had been removed, spoiled milk was spilled all over the wall and floor, the milk was in my shower bin, and the pleasant odor of spoiled milk.
I checked the RapidTrack ticket on the internet, and here is what it has to say:
No one is here (Sunday night) to clean this mess up and certainly nether of us are cleaning up this mess. So here we are, left with HORABLE nasty spoiled-milk smell in our room and these pictures as evidence:
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Missing Plug
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New location of milk (was ontop of microfridge)
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Milk on wall
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Milk on floor
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Tuesday December 31 2019 @ 2:08 PM
I went to Toledo last Friday. I saw Katie and Melissa, we watched movies, etc.
I'm back at Kent doing normal things now?
Tuesday February 3 2004 @ 4:09 PM
Well, after over a week of bullshit, we have our room! We have a really nice layout, its awesome, etc.
Tuesday February 3 2004 @ 1:01 AM
There's no single person in the entire chain of bureaucracy that knows anything about any other link?s function. The only function they know is their own.
So, when asked if there is any way to speed up any process, they lie to you about what to do, because they actually don?t know. It?s mad crazy.
Tuesday February 3 2004 @ 12:55 AM
I've started a new programming project!
I'm writing a tunneling program in Java sparked by the lack of easy-to-use tunneling programs.
I have already created a VB sort-of-mock-up of the design and it works for 1 connection at a time. I have since decided to re-write the whole thing in Java and make it extremely modular and easy to use with extremely detailed status information. I have no projected completion time, so?
I must say that Java and IDEA are sexy.Monday February 2 2004 @ 5:04 PM
marypoppins = (superman + starship) / god;
- Canadian Mind Products , http://mindprod.com
- Canadian Mind Products , http://mindprod.com
Sunday January 25 2004 @ 8:40 PM
I should be moving into my new room tomorrow if everything works out right (cross your fingers, knock on wood, etc). It will be in the same building with a friend from camp (Tom). He's sick of where he is so he's excited as well as I?
I have not gotten an on campus job yet, all the ones that are open are for like Federal work order stuff or whatever it's called and only open to people who need money to pay for college. I don't see how they think working a few hours a week at minimum wage at a job that's unrelated to your major could help in any way, but that's their problem. Well, I guess it's mine too since I can't get an on campus job so...
I have not gotten an on campus job yet, all the ones that are open are for like Federal work order stuff or whatever it's called and only open to people who need money to pay for college. I don't see how they think working a few hours a week at minimum wage at a job that's unrelated to your major could help in any way, but that's their problem. Well, I guess it's mine too since I can't get an on campus job so...