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Introductions! / Re: A bit about me

« on: December 14, 2005, 04:48:28 pm »

You don't do much XHtml/CSS coding do you?

You don't know me very well, do you?  Web Development is my most prominant hobby at the moment, so of course I do.  Just because Internet Explorer doesn't support W3C standards to their full extent doesn't mean that it still displays web pages as they're intended to be portrayed (which is often how they look in IE anyway...)

You're right, I don't know you very well.  I personally have a hard time respecting a browser that values backwards compatibility over standards compatability (especially when coping with these differences requires some rather ugly hacks).  I'll see if my opinion changes when IE7 is released but if the beta reviews are any indication, it will probably not change.

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General Security Information / Re: Walmart Nmap Chair (*shrug*)

« on: December 14, 2005, 12:12:25 pm »

Now with multiplayer hacking!  See who can defeat the evil System Administrator before the FBI breaks down your door!

Limited time offer, buyer subject to demeaning insults regarding their hacking ability and/or mom.

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Introductions! / Re: A bit about me

« on: December 14, 2005, 10:04:35 am »

I still respect IE as a good, useable browser.

You don't do much XHtml/CSS coding do you?

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Unix / Linux Discussion / Re: Torvalds: "...tell people to use KDE."

« on: December 13, 2005, 08:57:00 pm »

You're a loser for arguing with the losers!

I still haven't decided which I like best and still probably spend half my time in runlevel 3 (Arch is incredibly good for learning IMO).

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Introductions! / Re: Howdy

« on: December 13, 2005, 02:48:15 pm »

By the way, Computer Engineers tend to suck (A LOT) at programming.  So if both departments are combined, I highly recommend avoiding it. 

When I looked at schools, if EECE and CS were not seperate departments I didn't even bother going for a tour.  Furthermore, CompE had to have a different curriculum than EE to convince me that CompE wasn't just an afterthought.  By the way, not all CompE majors suck at programming

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Introductions! / Re: Howdy

« on: December 13, 2005, 10:25:49 am »

@ZeroX: what do you have against Green Day?

Nothing Personally. I just dont know how you can put Metallica and Greenday in the same mind and like both 

I disagree with the idea that you have to like only a certain type of music.  I enjoy any and all music that shows talent, so lots of talent is usually what makes a band one of my favorites.  I can listen to Enya, Randy Travis, and Disturbed in the same sitting and enjoy them all. 

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Introductions! / Re: Howdy

« on: December 12, 2005, 02:43:55 pm »

No, I haven't looked at Illonis.  I don't know if my parents want me to go that far out-of-state.  I live in Kansas City Missouri and so KU is out of state for me too.  But, it's closer than MU and UMR.  Also, I have a bunch of family in Kansas that may allow me to use their address.  That way I don't have to pay out of state tuition.. But, we'll see.

If you can't get instate, look into the MidWest Student Exchange, it allows a certain number of students from each state to get reduced (usually 1.5 instate) tuition rather than paying full out of state tuition.  I definately incourage you to look at KSU's CS program though, I think you'll like it a lot better than KU's which is in my opinion one of the worst ones in the state.  Manhattan is about 2 hours from the Missouri side of KC, so its not too bad.

Okay, I will look into that.  But, why do you think KU has one of the worse CS program?

Well, for starters, Computer Science does not even have their own department (a rareity for good reason).  Instead they are bundled with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering program.  This is not good, Electrical Engineering has virtually nothing to do with Computer Science and the fact that you have some professors teaching both EE and CS courses really says a lot about how their CS classes are orriented.  The KU CS  budget is obscenely lower and they have a reputation for not challenging their students.  At KU, CS is one of those departments that has simply been lost in the crowd.  The one good thing I can say about it is they do probably have a higher ratio of instructors with English as their primary language.  I could rant all day about the things I don't like about KU, but I'll just leave you with this interesting fact:  The entire Network infrastructure is run by students (who don't know what they are doing).  This backfired on them horribly a year or so ago when their entire (ENTIRE) network crashed because of a virus on one dorm students machine (they have basically no security measures in place, their managed AV is a joke).  It took them 8 hours to isolate the problem, 2 days to restore partial internet access in select areas, and 13 days to completely fix everything.  The worst part was that this was during dead week/ finals week so tons of students were hit pretty hard.

@ZeroX: what do you have against Green Day?

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Introductions! / Re: Howdy

« on: December 09, 2005, 08:03:06 pm »

No, I haven't looked at Illonis.  I don't know if my parents want me to go that far out-of-state.  I live in Kansas City Missouri and so KU is out of state for me too.  But, it's closer than MU and UMR.  Also, I have a bunch of family in Kansas that may allow me to use their address.  That way I don't have to pay out of state tuition.. But, we'll see.

If you can't get instate, look into the MidWest Student Exchange, it allows a certain number of students from each state to get reduced (usually 1.5 instate) tuition rather than paying full out of state tuition.  I definately incourage you to look at KSU's CS program though, I think you'll like it a lot better than KU's which is in my opinion one of the worst ones in the state.  Manhattan is about 2 hours from the Missouri side of KC, so its not too bad.

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Introductions! / Re: Howdy

« on: December 09, 2005, 06:31:05 pm »

Yeah, it's just like UMR then.  But, I am not going in for engineering.   I am going for Computer Science and Business.  I also want to go to UMR, but they don't have all of what I am looking for.

UMR was actually my first pick, but they jacked tuition at the last minute and I decided to go to my second pick.  CS falls under Engineering at KSU and I don't know how well it is ranked, but its a pretty good program.  I know Illinois has a damn fine CS program though, have you looked at them?

@Blaze: well, I have been known to be a very active drunk

I remember playing Goldeneye while pretty drunk, against some sober friends.  Sober, I was pro at the game, but they weren't.  Even drunk, I was still kicking ass.  The only difference was, I wasn't really focussing, and I had no clue what I was doing, but they still got hosed.  Hooray for instinct!

I rarely play console games but oddly enough I am a lot better at Halo/Halo2 drunk than I am sober.  Who knew?

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Introductions! / Re: Howdy

« on: December 09, 2005, 12:31:18 am »

I'm from the exciting land known as Kansas where I go to school and work (I work for the university doing tech support)

Wow, nice to meet you.

When you say university, you mean KU, right?  And if so (which would only make sense) I am actually may be going there for college next year.  That would be neat.  Also, where do you live?  In Kansas City, Lawrence, or where? 

Actually, I go to KSU in Manhattan.  I have a lot of friends in Lawrence that go to KU though.  KU really isn't that great of a school to go to if you are looking for engineering whereas KSU has a nationally ranked engineering program.

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iago's forum / Re: Scary Moment

« on: December 08, 2005, 10:02:14 am »

Okay then:
If you're anyone else, watch 5 minutes of any anime, then yell at the TV "GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY!!" and proceed to watch the History Channel (which is always fun too).

Right on!

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General Programming / Re: Interesting Problem

« on: December 08, 2005, 01:13:54 am »

It'd be interesting to find a GOOD solution to this

How about waiting till the next day when they publish the answer? 

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Introductions! / Re: Howdy

« on: December 08, 2005, 01:11:21 am »

Drunken DotA is rarely planned, usually happens when some of us find ourselves half-drunk and with nothing better to do at 4 in the morning

However, the 2nd planned Drunken DotA LAN party will be somwhere in the 12/20 - 12/23 range.  We will probably try to get a bunch to remote in.

@Warrior: I love you too, but only on thursdays.

Haha, the winner only has to ACT drunk.  A sober person would kick your asses!

Thats part of the fun, the better you do the more you have to drink, and those of us that are in the upper part of the skill scale usually get a head start

@deadly: I probably need more than just your vote 

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Introductions! / Re: Howdy

« on: December 07, 2005, 03:13:20 am »

Drunken DotA is rarely planned, usually happens when some of us find ourselves half-drunk and with nothing better to do at 4 in the morning

However, the 2nd planned Drunken DotA LAN party will be somwhere in the 12/20 - 12/23 range.  We will probably try to get a bunch to remote in.

@Warrior: I love you too, but only on thursdays.

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iago's forum / Re: Scary Moment

« on: December 06, 2005, 04:12:57 pm »

@iago: I haven't looked at it in a while but the printer is definately too far away for it to be magnetic interference.  The computer right next to it with the same type of speakers does not have the same "feature."  If we do ever replace them, maybe I can keep the speakers

@blaze: when I visit my parents and use the computer in the basement, the monitor will distort from the interference just before a call (if my phone is near it)