Month: February 2003

I finally got to try out the Wireless Module on my Evo N800c work laptop while at Pitt (actually I’m posting via it right now). They definitely used a couple hoops that you have to jump through to get authenticated. Between the WEP key, having to manually enter the SSID, and also authenticating through a BlueSocket gateway, it took me roughly 10 minutes to get everything figured out. Although I could definitely get used to this 🙂

This month’s issue of LinuxJournal is all about blogs. Guess I’m going to have to stop by Barnes and Noble this weekend to pick it up.

Last night Pitt beat West Virginia 82-46 at the Pete, smiting the rival to the ground. Hopefully the performance will help quiet critics about the team. Next up Seton Hall on Saturday at noon. Lets Go Pitt!!!

Well today the 18″ Flat Panel monitors came in (all 56 of them), so of course the first thing I did was hook one up at my desk! I’m actually quite surprised as to the brightness and clarity of it at 1280×1024, and the text size is really nice. I also have the secondary connection hooked up to the SharePoint 2001 prototype server lurking at the bottom of my cube, so with the flick of a switch I can go from dual monitor laptop mode to looking at the server, pretty sweet. My new “project” is going around to each desk and running all of the Windows / Office updates before the security test at the end of the month, then off to completely revamp the training room, which should actually be pretty cool.

Well off to download the Battlefield 1942 patch…

Well I’m on day #3 of my flex-time schedule at Buckeye, and I admit that it actually is nicer to work the last hour or so of my day, especially because the help desk is closed and I can get some good project work done in that hour. The real benefits come on Valentine’s day, where my first flex day falls, timed with President’s day on Monday gives me an excellent 4 day weekend : ) We got the beginning of the 2003 PC shipment yesterday, and as a group created the standard image all day today in a conference room, with the exception of the Wi-Fi situation on the laptops. I think I have a solution of a combo deny peer-to-peer / WEP solution, as Buckeye doesn’t plan on deploying access points in the near future. Now if this is what my boss actually meant by lock-down I’ll find out tomorrow. Anyways, off to do some relaxing activities, then my daily call with Laura, then head off to bed.

I’m back from yet another trip to Pittsburgh to visit Laura, and it was definitely a mixed weekend. Laura had her White Coat ceremony for Pharmacy school (congrats! : ) ), the Columbia fell apart, and Pitt had a controversial loss to Syracuse. Not only was the improper amount of time put back on the clock before the final play, but the officials lack of calling a technical foul for game interference made the Syracuse outcome a total farce. I hope the Pittsburgh Athletic department displays some disgust about Big East officiating and how the end of the game was handled to the conference commissioner. At least we’re still the highest ranked Big East team in the polls…