Tim’s Work in Progress

Some of you may know this about me, but I am a big perponent of Open Source, the ideals behind it, sharing, and so on. What you may not know about me is that I like to read a lot of things, from forums to news stories, etc. I guess I get a lot of Ideas from these readings, and I pull a lot of my ideas from it and interject my own experiences to form my opinions. I like reading about things that talk about things important to me, and one of them that I don’t talk about a lot, but are important to me, is security.

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Good morning! So, it’s been a while since I’ve updated, so I’ll give a general rundown. I’m out of school, back living at home. It’s nice, and I love to see my cat again. She might be sick, though. She keeps peeing on a spot on the carpet. She may have a urinary infection. I hope that all goes well.

Anyways, onto the juicy stuff. I had an interview this past Tuesday with a man at Fresenius Medical Care, and I’m going to be starting a new job very soon! I will be doing research and programming, it should be an interesting job where I’ll have the opportunity to learn a lot.

And, on to the grades. I did pretty damn well this semester, Spring 2008:

Unix Administration: A-
Systems Analysis and Business Applications: B
Database Management Systems: A-
Financial Accounting: A-
Sociology: B+

w00t.

Sorry about that, kids. I had not renewed my domain name and I didn’t have the money to do it, until now (Actually, I still don’t have the money to.)

Tomorrow (or today?) at some point I’ll write a nice post about whats up with me, and my grades and whatnot.

This is what it said:

Server Captain’s Log

May 4

The UNIX Sea was stormy today. We had a lot of capsized memory modules. We sailed the Apache ship right on through the httpd strait, and luckily we were successful. Once we loaded the www directory with the supplies we needed, we knew we were going to be even more successful than we’ve ever been before.

July 2

Once the apache ship had sailed, we moved on to the furious waters of the DNS Sea. If we were able to achieve a DNS master and slave, through zone files, we would be that much closer to the end prize – being a UNIX Server Administrator.

July 14

Rough waters on the DNS Sea. Supplies are not being sufficient, and we can’t seem to get the sails in the correct direction. My fellow sailors and I have sailed troubled waters before, but these waters were proving to be a terrible challenge

July 17

While we still have not overcome the rough waters of DNS, we have decided to move on – to the inland waters of the E-Mail marshes. The E-mail mashes look a promising prospect to our men who are demoralized by their defeat by DNS.

July 26

The E-mail mashes were just as undelicate towards us as the DNS Sea was. Unknown to us, if we had sucessfully traversed the waters of the DNS Sea, we would have been prepared so much moreso for what we have encountered in the past week.

August 6

As a captain, sometimes executive decisions must be made. I decided to leave behind all the man we lost to the E-mail marshes and DNS Sea…

The rest of the paper is strewn with blood… Makes me wonder what happened to these poor sailors.

Hola. Back at school now, enjoying being back after a decent break. I’ve got some sweet news! I’m now going to be a DJ on Thursday nights from 10 to 11 PM. I will be DJing on my school’s internet radio station, WIT Wire. Please give a listen! Not  sure yet what the show is going to be about, but I figure it should be good. w00t.

w00t. I did good.
Computer Programming (Java): A
Operating System Concepts: A
Computer Architecture: A-
Chemistry: A-
World Civilization: B+
3.755 GPA for the semester, 3.465 overall. Not too shabby :]

So, I’m back home from school. Had an overall good semester, enjoyed (almost) all my classes, and did well in grades (Will be posted in a few days when they are out.) Being home is nice because I get some downtime to myself, and also I get to see some friends that I am unable to see during school due to my somewhat isolation while there.  But that is alleviated now, being as I’m home.

I’m upgrading the server, as well. My parents have gotten me a brand new desktop (its sooooo good, like the pie), so my old desktop will become the new server. My plan is this: Get the new server set up, which is in progress. I’m going to make backups of the old server and make sure that everything I need regarding the website is saved.  Once that is done, I’m going to transfer everything over to the new server, and once its all set up I’ll make it live. There should be very little downtime for the website, actually none at all if I do it correctly. That is what I hope to happen, but we’ll see if it goes the way it is planned.

I started reading the series His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, starting with the book (recently made movie) The Golden Compass. I’ve finished that one, and it truly was a masterpiece. Kept me hooked the entire time. I’m currently starting book 2 of 3, The Subtle Knife. This one has started off in the same fashion, and I have high hopes for it. I’m also probably going to be reading the rest of the books in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, seeing as I purchased a compilation book that contains all of them.

As for what I’m doing with the rest of my time this winter break, I’m going to be visiting my new friend Jay from New York, who has roomed with us for the last semester. I’m also going to visit Cassy a whole lot. Arteom’s birthday party is also on the 20th of January, so I gotta go back up there to visit him (Hes lucky I love him.) I’m also planning on finishing a bunch of anime series (I’m not a weaboo). Currently working on Blue Gender (which is amazing), I’ve got Trigun, Claymore,  and a whole bunch more lined up. Looks like its going to be a fun winter break

Told ya so.
Thanks for this, Porwood.

You just lost it.

I bought two books from O’Reilly, Programming Perl and Learning Ruby this past week. I’m hoping to broaden my programming horizons. Also, Regex rocks.