What I have been doing in and outside school the past week.
Scheduling my time.
Didn’t really find a good timetable software so used excel to do up my weekly timetable (like doing training programmes in army). Later played with Google Calendars and Mozilla Sunbird. Google’s very good alternative for outlook calendar, you could sync calendars with others, integrated with gmail, accessible anywhere and I love its Quick Add Event feature. Timetable pretty good for a 1st semester student. Latest first lesson is 9am and schools ends at 4pm latest of my 4 day study week, except CCA on wednesdays.
Configuring my emails.
I’ve 2 school email accounts, 1 unix account, another outlook exchange account. I wanted so mail forwarding so all mails could be read from a individual place. The “.forward” file was added in unix, and a rule for outlook was added to forward all mails to my gmail account.
Attending lectures.
2nd week has no tutorials so I basically go to school for lectures. So lectures are boring (perhaps I couldn’t understand, perhaps I learn’t those before) so I used FreeMind on the laptop to create mindmaps.
Swim.
I decided not to renew my Safra my membership knowing I could access the school’s swimming pool. I lost my new goggles on of my sessions.
Rain and stars.
Days of rain causing numerous soaked socks. However, rain’s a very pleasing sight and sounds. One night walking home after the rain, the sky seemed to move the clouds aside, and the rolls the curtains for a bright moon accompanied with sparkling stars. I revised my stars glazing techniques. My bro mentions a “blood red moon”, or a lunar eclipse (earth between sun and moon) happening soon.
Port forwarding puzzle enlightened.
Over months of being puzzled why the port forwarding on my router didn’t seem to work, I discovered an issue after honeypotting ports and debugging telnet sessions. The 2wire router didn’t seem to establish the connection if you call its external address from the internal network. The port forwarding works fine for others though. I confirm my findings using a proxy server and my unix account from school
Listening to music.
I plugged my usb speakers into my server. SSHed and ran screen -R. I use juke on a jukebox full of baroque music. I remembered WCPE and ran mplayer on its streams. The music keeps playing even turning off the computer. If my computer’s on, I would perhaps Naxos online music library, subscription prepaid via school fees.
Books.
Borrowed some books on listening from YST library in hope to understand music better.
GPS.
Retrieved GPS nmea logs on my phone, converted to GPX and uploaded to different sites for different reports and maps.
Computers in my home.
Networking devices has reached to a record. Counting the main ones,
3 Laptops - 1 a touch screen tablet, all connected wireless except the power cables
3 Desktops - all connected via ethernet port
1 Server -Running linux as well as server as a network switch
2 Networked printers -1 Ethernet connected, 1 Windows-shared Laser Printer
Surfing the net.
Firefox add-on Timetracker on my mom’s laptop says I’ve been surfing the net for 62hours since start of this month, 4th August. MeeTimer reports about an average 1h 45mins a day.
Read with interest your blog entry about listening to WCPE. I’m not a Unix type so could you explain about listening with your computer off. Sounded cool! Please reply.
Curtis Brothers
Outreach Director
WCPE FM
TheClassicalStation.org
Hello Curtis Brothers,
Didn’t expect to see you drop by. Thank you for commenting and for the great classical radio station! Sorry I was posting in a rush, I didn’t make things clear and left out linking to your webpage.
Basically I have a Pentium II pc which acts as a headless linux server, router and now a WCPE jukebox. In order to do that, I plug speakers into server, then connect via my laptop or desktop to play the WCPE stream in a screen session. The screen session will continue to run in the background even when the “computers” refering to the desktops or laptop disconnect and shutdown.
Of course there are perhaps other easier and better ways to archive this effect, but this is a quick method for me. I have also tried tunning in using my nintendo DS, but I cant remember the effect but its another way to tune in.