Tech Shows

http://www.filefarmer.com/techshows/

Here is a list of tech shows you can view. Very nice, indeed.

Whats your age on other worlds?

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/

Hey im only 15 on Mars, yeah I'm a teenager again. Ahh whats are these on my face, damn pimples. Curse you. AHHHHHHH

Google: Chat!!!

http://www.smashsworld.com/2005/08/im-on-google-talk-right-now.php

So here is a sight that describes the setup procedure for google talk:

1) Get GAIM if not already have it.

2) Add an account, select "Jabber" as the protocol.
3) Your screen name is everything before the '@gmail.com'.
4) Server is 'gmail.com'.
5) Click "show more options" and make sure "use TLS if available" is checked. Leave "Force old SSL" and "allow plaintext..." unchecked for now. Connection port should be 5222, connection server should be 'talk.google.com' without the quotes.
6) Ta-da! Just login and you should be good-to-go.


P.S. If you need an gmail account, just email me at "andrusw @ gmail . com"

Update on personal life:

Ok, so my last day on the job at Mercury Insurance Group will be next Wednesday August 31, 2005. I will then be packing up my stuff on Thursday and Friday, then heading out to Greeley, Colorado. I hate looking for a new job, it sucks. I put my info back on dice.com and monster.com, and I started getting calls for jobs around here. I'm like, where were they when I wanted one for the first 6 months I was here.

The California DMV, geesh. They sure are different out here then NY. The only regulation for a car is that it is smog tested, nothing else. Doesn't matter if the muffler or braking light might be bad. So on June, 15, 2006 I order a new registration through the state's online website. It was suppose to come in 2 - 8 weeks. It never came. So I called the DMV, after searching for a couple of hours for the correct phone number. I called at the beginning of August. The man on the phone said he will send one out right away. Well, its 3 weeks later. I just called again, and now I hope that the third time is the charm.

The people out here complain about illegal immigrants, somewhat often. CA DMV can easily get rid half of the problem, by making people surrender their license plate everytime a car changes hands. Its that simple. They would have to go in, show proof of purchase, pays fees, etc... No illegal immigrant would be able to get a license w/o some proof of residency. Oh well, not my problem. Anyway America would become a poorer country if it weren't for today's cheap (illegal) workforce.

I have been exercising still, but haven't lost to much weight. I need to cut down more on my food consumption still. I been getting to many feeding frenzies. I have reached a ceiling on the amount of weight I can lift, but I'm starting to add a different rountine now in my work. I'll say, my shoulders have become really strong. I did some push-ups yesterday and easily did 20, so I know there is some improvement.

My TV habits have been: Comedy's Centralia Daily Show, IFC, and Current. Current is a really awesome TV show. Lots of different views on life and non-mainstream stories. I really recommend the channel.

I started to learn Java. Now I remember why I hated the language in the first place. Took me an hour to figure out how to get console input. I would figure something simple, but nooooo. I have to figure out how to live without pointers also. I started to convert some of my programs and they have pointers. Now I see why pointers are nice to have. It just make life so much easier if you can tranverse through an array via a pointer. Oh well, there is always more then one way to skin a cat.

Ambigram

http://www.ambigram.matic.com/ambigram.htm

Make your name or some other two words into a Ambigram. (Read it normal and upside down).

Hacks: Food

http://www.slashfood.com/2005/08/19/top-25-food-hacks/

Some old, some new, and some very interesting concepts.

Hack: Get free PPV in hotel rooms

He is so kindly to offer two solutions. Yeah. :)


http://www.i-hacked.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=184&Itemid=45

1) Use wintv and a laptop

-or-

2) Buy a cheap universal remote control.

MyProgs

http://popular.myprogs.net/
See what programs everyone else is using. Very cool, it is taking me awhile to put mine in though. I have alot of programs I use. I see some that I have not tried before also, very interesting.

This site allows you to keep a social list of the programs you use. After you sign up you can add programs to your unique list. You can view anyone else’s programs and they can view yours. Extra user-defined data can be added to each program entry to organize and describe the program further such as program descriptions, a link to the program's homepage, and tags. You can use tags to categorize (and thus organize) programs so that you and others using this site will have an easier time finding new and interesting programs.

Try out this link for my programs I have listed so far: http://myprogs.net/andrusw

Slow Motion Capture Videos

http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~dga/high_speed_video/

Some interesting thing to check out, maybe the billard videos might improve my game somehow. I don't know how, since I too good. :)

Plane struck by lightning..

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/ltg/plane_japan.php

How To: Build your own giant telescope.

My astronomy teacher at SUNY-IT had one of these that she built herself, me and my friends always wanted to do one ourselves some day. It was pretty awsome, you could see jupiter and it's giant huricane.

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/raycash/manualv2.pdf

Funny: RoboDump 1.0

This is just funny-- this guy puts a fake person in the toilet with noises, and people gossip about the person who has been in there all day.

http://triggur.org/robodump/

A large source of information

Ok, I love sites like www.fark.com and www.digg.com because of the amount of information that is given. Well here is an interesting site that gives a multitude of information from other sites. http://freshnews.org/

How To: Wardrive

http://www.sans.org/rr/whitepapers/wireless/174.php

"Computer users have been deploying 802.11b wireless access points in homes, offices,
and schools without any regard to the security of these devices. The overall coolness
and convenience of wirelessly accessing the Internet from the office cafeteria or from the next bedroom in the house has distracted most users from taking measures to
protect themselves against potential digital threats.

Meanwhile, a new activity has taken form: Wardriving. Participants of this activity
assemble their rigs of hardware and software with the intent of cruising streets to find your wireless access point. They share their results and plot the location of your wireless access point on a map – it’s probably listed on a web site right now. This paper will discuss the components needed to construct a wardriving rig and suggest methods for detecting wardrivers as they drive past your wireless network."

How to: Setup a Mandrake Server

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_mandrake_10_2

Learn a new language

I guess you can just google up a learning site for any language, but this site can save you time. http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html

I'm taking a look at the Korean language.

Tutorial: How to comment your code.

http://www.icsharpcode.net/TechNotes/Commenting20020413.pdf

It's always nice to comment your code, especially if you go back after a year and have trouble remembering what it is doing.

Powder Alcohol :)

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1596657,00.html

Actual German Site:
http://www.subyou.com/

This sounds cool, I can see people just eating the powder without water. Why dilute??

It would be cool to mix the powder with other objects. Like make pretzels, and sprinkle it with powerder alcohol and salt. I'm pretty sure, bars would be selling these items very fast.