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[	Current Music	|	None.	]

Updated: 2004-06-07 @ 22:34

Arguably a blessing or an insult to injury, the construction at the new Arts Building ended up cutting power to the entire campus (again!). All of UTSC went dark about 15 minutes before my first lecture. If only I had fallen asleep and skipped the class, but alas, I was in the shower at the time. You probably don't want to read more about that. So jumping ahead, the Science wing still had backup power so the lecture continued for an hour until the Registrar Office announced that all classes were cancelled due to insufficient ventilation even if the power was restored. It seems that UTSC's solid concrete Brutalist Industrialist (brutally ugly) structure, albeit sturdy, promotes the asphyxiation of staff and students. Nevertheless, this is getting ridiculous now. We already had a scheduled outage last Friday. One hour turned into six hours. Today the power was out for nearly eight hours (and for those eight hours, I slept). There's another outage scheduled for this coming Friday for another so-called "hour." Five bucks says that it'll last for more than 5 hours as well... any takers?

[	Current Mood	|	hopeful	]
[	Current Music	|	Public Enemy - He Got Game	]

Updated: 2004-04-19 @ 19:53

Why is there so much competition? It wasn't like this last year, for one thing, I'm now selling at $2.69 USD (a record low!) That's well lower than the competition who ranges from $50.00 USD to $2.99 USD. I've even thrown in a few bonuses. At this rate, hopefully the increased volume will offset my costs. While I shouldn't really complain, I just have to be patient. After all, I'm still in the green.

[	Current Mood	|	accomplished	]
[	Current Music	|	The construction at the Management Building site.	]

bubbleangela

allokittykat

Updated: 2004-04-20 @ 03:46

Sorry guys, I hate to do this and break tradition, but this isn't going to work. What with the conflicts and such, we can't suit all these different time-schedules. We'll have to find something else to do at another time. Any ideas? I'm open to all and any suggestions at this point.

[	Current Mood	|	irate	]
[	Current Music	|	Ashanti - Rock Wit U	]

Updated: 2004-04-07 @ 11:31

I haven't slept all night and I just got back from speaking with the people at CNS. I'm about as annoyed as one can reasonably be while still having full control. No surprise here, it seems that no one there has any idea why my computer would be flagged like that. More evidence of the incompetence I was talking about earlier. I spoke to a total of three admins of increasing superiority (Mike Adams, Rouben Tchakhmakhtchian & John Harper). They kept referring me to whomever was above them.

After being bounced around like a MSNIA client, they got together and told me, "Well, we don't know why [the top network admin] flagged you. If anything, it's not about the traffic but rather because he saw a momentary data burst at 10Mb/sec. He probably thought you had the W32.Welchia.Worm..." The newbs continued to say that, "...as far as we can tell, you did nothing wrong. Don't worry. We shouldn't have even flagged you. A [single burst] isn't a virus." That's quite the acute observation, just imagine a distributed denial of service attack (dDoS) where the client only sent one burst to the target!

They continued among themselves about how the switch isn't properly throttling and how it needs to be reconfigured to log less discriminately. I'll forego posting the technical details but still, some of this stuff is elementary. It's obvious that 7.6Mb of data is far from unreasonable. Mr. Tchakhmakhtchian later told me that he would send an email to Celine to have her re-word the letters. He intended this to be more of a notice and not a "you're getting the boot outta rez" threat.

As a result of my complaining, they are now planning to send out a bulletin to show people how to check up on traffic (refer to the Host Detail Report link above) and they will finally post what the bandwidth limits are. At the time of this post, it's set at 500Mb/day for off-campus and unlimited traffic on-campus. Nevertheless, at the price of an hour-and-a-half of my life squandered -- this issue is finally resolved and the verdict is, not surprisingly, innocent. In closing, I'll leave you with this quote from Lawrence J. Peter, "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." How true is that?

[	Current Mood	|	tired	]
[	Current Music	|	50 Cent - Got Me A Bottle	]

Updated: 2004-04-08 @ 03:10

Pictures are now available for download (thanks Godfrey!) -- just click HERE. If you guys have more, just email them to me and I'll post them up.

[	Current Mood	|	indifferent	]
[	Current Music	|	Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River	]

Updated: 2004-03-14 @ 02:04

This issue has been resolved. She called me over to her place to have a chat. We were in her room and she cried about how bad she felt. Perhaps I'm just callous but it didn't get to me. I felt it was insincere. She asked, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? You should just tell me!" To which I replied, "Isn't that exactly what I asked of you three times before?" She then tells me that she was thinking of cutting herself. She said she had a knife and asked me if I wanted to cut her. Yeah wow, obviously I told her, "No, I'm finished. I said what I needed to say." I'm not one to judge but that girl has got issues.

[	Current Mood	|	energetic	]
[	Current Music	|	Nelly - Country Grammar	]

Updated: 2004-02-26 @ 14:18

I just got back from speaking with a friend of mine working at U of T's Computing and Network Services. Apparently CNS only cares about the bandwidth that goes outside of U of T's network... pretty much.

Students can still get busted if a switch is used because it is blasting the network at 1Gbps, but overall, there is no tracking (minimal at best) going on on U of T's internal network. The Internet gateway traffic is another story. Sorry guys, I'm gonna have to retract my hub offer to just U of T students.

So, the moral of the story, my little P2P network hub on DC++ is safe. Just as long as the members are not outside of U of T's network.

80Gb at 100Mbits... and I thought Sympatico Highspeed Ultra was fast.

[	Current Mood	|	annoyed	]
[	Current Music	|	50 Cent - Poor Lil' Rich	]

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