Jobs vs Gates
By: Jesse Morgan on 2007-11-11 09:37:16
Wow... Apple's getting a little too arrogant. I just saw Leopard's icon for a Windows machine while browsing the church's network. I have to agree that's Apple has got too far this time.
Some of Apple's latest moves have brought them as low, if not lower than, Microsoft. For example, crippling the iPod touch to promote iPhone sales. The new icon in Leopard, etc. Not to mention Jobs can't step in front of a crowd without bashing Microsoft.
I've come to the conclusion that Jobs must have a personal vendetta against Gates. Why? Microsoft makes a much worse product than Apple, yet Microsoft holds the operating system market. I think Jobs is just jealous because Gates is a better businessman than him. Poor Steve. Oh well
Fixed Mail in Leopard
By: Jesse Morgan on 2007-11-11 08:03:49
So I was able to fix my issues with Mail in Leopard. I have three IMAP accounts on my server, all using SSL. It would appear that Mail uses two to three IMAP connections per account (seems to vary depending on how much you interact with the server. I've also heard accounts of Mail using four connections, but I've only seen three). My connections per ip limit was set to 7 (I think Tiger's Mail used two per account, I set it to 7 so I would have a bit of head room). After upping the limit I haven't had any more problems... with Mail that is. I have had windows disappear in Space(s) though. Odd. [/[ara]
Now Introducing, Leopard
By: Jesse Morgan on 2007-11-09 14:42:31
So I just upgraded my MacBook (courtesy of Work/Church) to Leopard (also courtesy of Work/Church). What do I think? Well... I can't help but think of Vista when I see the color scheme, and I ran into a problem with Mail, and another problem with Opera. Mail was easy enough to fix. Somehow I had a second copy of Tiger's mail hidden in a directory somewhere, and my dock was pointing to that one (which crashed every time I attempted to open it). Opera insisted on italicizing everything for no apparent reason, and didn't render webpages properly. That was fixed by redownloading Opera.
Spaces would have to be my most anticipated feature of Leopard. VirtueDesktops had too many problems and didn't work as I wanted it to. (I was very fond of my spinning cube in Beryl/Gnome). Spaces works better than VirtueDesktops, but is still lacking. The most obvious is the lack of a keyboard shortcut to move a window to a different workspace. If I want to do that, I have to press F8, find my mouse (ok, ok, that's not too hard considering it's a laptop, but I shouldn't have to take my hands off the keyboard for something this trival), and drag the window onto the space. Leopard is also lacking a "Show windows on all workspaces" Expose function.
And it would appear that Mail is disagreeing with the SSL on my server... And there goes my Internet connection... again. Well, those, and the iPod Cripple are rants for another day. Right now it's time to see if VLC still works by watching some DS9
Calculus Quiz
By: Jesse Morgan on 2007-10-21 22:13:58
Studying for a calculus quiz right now. Well, I would be, but I'm writing this because I'm easily distracted and tired of memorizing the derivatives of trig functions. Homework was easy, as usual (find the equation of the tanget line of y = (e^x)(cos x) at point (0,1), bonus points for whoever feels like trying it).
Actually, I wanted to write about annoying chainmails, not calculus. I think Christians start/send/modify the most annoying ones (which I'm allowed to say, since I am a Christian). A few memorable quotes from the latest one I've recieved (with commentary):
"Right away I thought of you and said a loving prayer,"
Really? I thought you just pressed select all in your address book.
"If it stops with you, then the blessing will disappear."
Sorry, I must have missed the verse about blessing being withheld for not passing on chainmail. Ok, </rant>
This had to have been the best FHS service we've had in awhile. We had a new camera operator (as usual), Chris, whose camera work was right up with some of our best camera operators. He'd better come back. Oh, and we turned Marc Wymore into a smurf (really, you shouldn't mess with the tech team on stage... you'll get punked). More about Marc the Smurf later (Bah! I forgot to record it), I've got to get back to studying.
I'm still here... I think
By: Jesse Morgan on 2007-10-19 21:49:45
I've said it before, but it's true! I still exists... I've started Pierce again. I've got Calculus I with Tony Granata (same as PreCal II), Computer Science I, and General Physics I.
Apparently I never mentioned my grade in Precal II. Funny story. I checked my grade online and saw, to my surprise... 0.0. Huh? Well, I emailed Tony and this is what I got in response:
You are correct. Actually, your grade is a 4.0. I will change it ASAP. Here's how I think the mistake happened....It's kinda' humorous. The evening that I entered the grades, I had badly burnt my right thumb on the barbecue grill. So, I was trying to enter the grades with only my left hand while in pain! I may have made mistakes on others' grades as well......
So yeah, kinda funny, cruel, but funny.
Computer Science is interesting. Much better than CIS121, but I have started reading slashdot in class again. We're using Java in this class and the first thing Mr. Staneff said was something along the lines of "Java is a horrible programming language." I disagree with some of what he's said (especially when I code something on my own [which works], and then he tells the class that what I just did won't work), but I enjoy his class.
Physics... not so much. Currently, I think I'll avoid Ignacio next time I pick classes (if I can). Granted I haven't had as much time as I'd like to do homework, but it doesn't help that she doesn't speak clearly and I can't read her handwriting on the board.
Calculus, on the other hand, I have enjoyed. Although I'm a bit worried... its been too easy. How disappointed was I to find this big fancy word "derivative" just meant slope. Oh well. I have a feeling it'll get more complicated next quarter.
Now the whole reason I started writing was because I got a laugh from a spam email. The "congratulations you've just won" people have stepped up their spamming, and it's been getting through my filters. Today's was from "Microsoft Award Team." The email starts out with "The prestigious Microsoft and AOL..." I found that rather funny and decided to share. And it only took six paragraphs to get to my point :D
I'm Free!!!!!!!
By: Jesse Morgan on 2007-06-15 09:03:15
I'm Free!!!!!!!!!!!!! The quarter is now over! Now I get a week long summer break, then I start summer quarter (fun fun). Weather is miserable (random comment). Unfortunately I wasn't keeping a count of grades this quarter, so I have no idea what I'm going to find on my transcript Tuesday. Oh well, we'll wait and see.I'm still here!
By: Jesse Morgan on 2007-04-25 20:45:51
:o I'm still alive! Just.. busy.
So, since February a quarter at Pierce has ended and another has began (a month ago). 4.0s in all classes (yay). This quarter I have Math 121 (Precal), Business 240 (human relations), and CIS 122 (Structured Program design). Nothing really interesting.
I was gonna write more, but this has been sitting here unfinished for a couple of days. More later... maybe
Important Recall Notice
By: Jesse Morgan on 2007-02-13 21:13:24
Regardless of make or year, all units known as "Human Beings" are being recalled by the Manufacturer. This is due to a malfunction in the original prototype units, code named "Adam" and "Eve", resulting in the reproduction of the same defect in all subsequent units. This defect is technically termed, "Serious Internal Non-morality," but more commonly known as "SIN."
Some of the symptoms of the SIN defect:
- Loss of direction
- Lack of peace and joy
- Depression
- Foul vocal emissions
- Selfishness
- Ingratitude
- Fearfulness
- Rebellion
- Jealousy
The Manufacturer is providing factory authorized repair service free of charge to correct the SIN defect. The Repair Technician, Jesus Christ, has most generously offered to bear the entire burden of the staggering cost of these repairs.
To repeat, there is no fee required. The number to call for repair in all areas is: P-R-A-Y-E-R.
Once connected, please upload the burden of SIN through the REPENTANCE procedure. Next, download ATONEMENT from the Repair Technician, Christ, into the heart component of the human unit.
No matter how big or small the SIN defect is, Christ will replace it with:
- Love
- Joy
- Peace
- Kindness
- Goodness
- Faithfulness
- Gentleness
- Patience
- Self-control
Please see the operating manual, HOLY BIBLE, for further details on the use of these fixes.
As an added upgrade, the Manufacturer has made available to all repaired units a facility enabling direct monitoring and assistance from the resident Maintenance Technician, the Holy Ghost. Repaired units need only make Him welcome, and He will take up residence on the premises.
WARNING: Continuing to operate a human being unit without corrections voids the Manufacturer's warranty, exposing the unit to dangers and problems too numerous to list and will ultimately result in the human unit being incinerated.
Thank you for your immediate attention.
What's New?
By: Jesse Morgan on 2006-12-24 21:59:02
It's been awhile. Since my last rant, my college quarter has ended (one more week off, start again Jan 3), I've played in PFC's ceiling again, and I've been hired as the IT CrowdGuy.
So yeah, F06 quarter is over. 4.0 in CIS121 (of course), 3.8 in English 101, and a 2.7 in History 243. Next quarter I have English 111 with the same teacher as ENG101 last quarter, Math 98, and CIS150... with Bruce again. So next quarter should be interesting, especially since, starting next week, I have a part time job :D
A few weeks ago Brent called and asked if I was interested in an IT job at my church, Puyallup Foursquare. (Yes.. of course I'm interested :P). So this morning, before services, I sat down with Brent and the Assistant Pastor, Yoel, and went over what I'd be doing. Part of what I'm doing is training people in using and making sure F1 works. The manual, which I was handed in the meeting, is a three inch binder (260 pages). After the meeting Brent happily gave me another inch of paper, the manual for the WebLink (I'd tell you what it is.. but I haven't read it yet).
All staff at PFC is assigned a Mac. Now... I'd take a Mac over Windows, but I'd much rather be using Linux. But I have a bright white macbook next me now. And it only took two and a half hours to break :D
"You broke a Mac?" Yes, I broke a Mac :P For some reason, right in the middle of a software update, it told me to reset it by holding the power button. When I turned it back on I saw a beautiful message saying "Kernel Panic" and an error about not being able to load the ACPI driver. Right now I have about 3 minutes left of the clean install. Then we'll try that update again (I aint too bright are I :P).
Off to make apple juice out of my macbook...
Chainmail Petitions Are Bad
By: Jesse Morgan on 2006-12-08 15:59:33
Today I got a chainmail petiton from a friend. I'm not going to paste the email itself, it's a varient of http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_petition_2493.htm if you want to read it (except this one said 3000 names and told people to forward to president@whitehouse.gov). Instead I'm going to post my response:
You sent this to 26 people, could you imagine if everyone sent this to 26 people? If you can't, let me paint the picture. Over an unknown period of time, the President would receive 4,498,667 different copies of the email. Wow, that's 13,496,001,000 names (Yes, that's 13 billion). Now unfortunately, each generation of the email will have redundant names. For example, the first name on the list, Frankie Dorsett, will be seen 4,498,667 times. The second name, Marilyn Hampton, assuming it was added in the second generation of the email, would be seen 4,495,678 times. This math isn't perfect for several reasons: 1) not everyone will send it to 26 people, some will send to more, some less; and 2) some people will add more than one name onto the list (i.e. whole family signs one email). Now, for this petition to be of any use, someone at the Whitehouse would have to sort through these emails over a number of years and pick out the unique names. Next they would have to check every name against a list of registered voters, since names on a petition are useless if they aren't those of registered voters. And finally, they'd throw out the petition because there's no way of knowing if those people really signed their names (And they'd probably do it in that order since politicians are stereotypically stupid ;).
Now that I think of it, I failed to mention that the email said "If you don't forward the petition and just stop it, we will lose all these names," but if sent to 26 people, that's unlikely. I also failed to mention a quote by the FCC: "The rumor that the FCC has before it a proposal to deny licenses to religious broadcasters still continues to circulate, 25 years after the Commission denied that request."
I bring you...
By: Jesse Morgan on 2006-12-01 22:48:24
CARDBOARD! Lots and lots of cardboard. We had the ACTS Homeschool Co-op Christmas Party today, organized by the ACTS Youthgroup. We had craft stations and games and such, and then we had the cardboard box maze :D Joseph and I collected as many cardboard boxes as we could. Then Joseph, Cory, and I started building in one room, with a plan, and Cameran, Sam, and Tim started in the other, without a plan. Hours later we met in the middle... the middle of the bathroom connecting the two rooms. Our maze was a collection of various sized boxes, mostly small, with sharp corners, a loop, a dead end, and a flashy light. Their's was made of large uniform boxes with dead ends and one tight tunnel. After three hours of building, we started letting kids in. Most of the kids ran.. well, crawled through more times than I could count (I can't count above five, and several went through over 20 times). The craft stations in the gym were getting bored, but when we closed the maze to repair it (silleh 11 and 12 year olds running through breaking stuff), they were flooded, until we opened the maze again. At the end of the night all the youth people went through... and wrecked it (intentionally, although it wasn't hard after what the little kids did). Three hours of work, two truck loads of cardboard and 10 rolls of duct tape. All demolished at the end of the night. But it was fun :D
Snow Day!
By: Jesse Morgan on 2006-11-28 09:01:17
Snow day! :D Which means I stayed up and wrote that in-class essay for nothing... At least I don't have to worry about it now. Instead I get to worry about my research paper that's still a page and a half short and is due Thursday. I'm sure I'll find something other than school work to procrastinate with :)
Yeah yeah yeah, the cow is back...
By: Jesse Morgan on 2006-11-27 21:49:39
Believe it or not, I'm back :D Twice in one night.. miserable luck you're having :P I have here with me Mr. Magical Trevor.. ermm wait.. wrong blog... Anyways, why am I back? Well, after another awesome episode of Prison Break (grrr.. have to wait until Jan 22 for the next season), I came downstairs and found my attempting, and succeeding, to hang itself (CPU full load, ram max out, hard drive going crazy), I suspect Samba ran away again (need to fix that somehow), so for now I've disabled it. I rebooted and to my great surprise, my wireless wasn't working. Part of my world update today was ndiswrapper-1.29. ndiswrapper takes windows wireless drivers, and uses them under linux (since broadcom won't release driver specs so real drivers can be written). Appearently ndiswrapper-1.29 doesn't like my broadcom card. A cat5 cable and one ndiswrapper compilation later and I now have my wireless back (yay!) Abiword's finally recompiled, so now I can write my [not so] in-class essay for English 101. Mrs. Higgans dislikes in-class essays (she thinks the quality isn't good enough when they're rushed in an hour), so we got our assignment the day before, and have 24 hours to do it. Of course, I wait until now (and procrastinate further by writing this entry). Now I have to relate a personal experiance to a quote. Of our eight choices, I think I'll go with "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." Now to write the essay... Laters.
A real entry
By: Jesse Morgan on 2006-11-27 19:58:20
Ok, brace yourself. I'm actually going to make a real blog entry (since I don't feel like starting my [not so] in-class essay due tomorrow, and I have 15 minutes until Prison Break starts, and I have to wait for Abiword to recompile (broke a dependancy)). Lets see.. It's been several months since I've written anything. Well, Thankgiving break ended today. I spent most of the break doing absolutely nothing (yay?). I read the seventh Pendragon book as soon as school was over on Tuesday, the Quillian games were quite.. interesting. Did nothing from Wednesday through Friday (except eat on Thursday), then switched rooms with my brother on Saturday. Now I have the big room :D and all the network stuff is in here. We pulled up the carpet and ran cat5 to my other brother's room, so now everyone has computers in their room. Got my term paper back from Churchill in History 243 today. 240/250 points. He docked 10 points because it was two paragraphs too long. I could have, should have, but didn't decrease the font size to make it fit, even though he gave us the option. Oh well. Since I haven't posted anything about my running start classes, you probably don't know who Churchill is. I have three running start classes at Pierce College, Puyallup this quater: English 101 with Mrs. K. Higgans, History 243 with Mr. Churchill, and Computer Information Systems 121 with Bruce Salusbury. Mrs. Higgans is a very.. different teacher. For both of our quizes so far were open book, and we could go and discuss the answers with anyone in the class. Churchill is... Churchill, and how Bruce got to teach a computer class I'll never know. I did get 50/50 points on my net neutrality paper from him though. I have another research paper on net neutrality due Nov. 30 for English, should be interesting to see how I do on that one (so far so good). Anyways, I'll probably post my history paper soon (The History of the Internet), and I'll post my English paper (and maybe my CIS121 paper) after it's graded. As for now, it's 8:00 PM and time for prison break. Perhaps I'll write again soon. (note to self, a metacode thingy for the content stuff would be useful, this whole </p><p class="paragraph"> deal to start new paragraph's is annoying.)
Excerpts
By: Jesse Morgan on 2006-11-08 21:50:20
Since spamming, err, fowarding emails is immoral, impropper, and inefficent, I decided to post a excerpts from an email I got about a month ago:
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something lik e this Happen?" (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?" ... Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school . the Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK. Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK. [Proverbs 13:24 is relevent] Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. ... Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.
Eventually I'll start writing uninteresting stuff again. Right now I'm busy is my procrastination and Pierce classes (and church, and co-ops, and AWANA, etc).
E. Coli Victim
By: Jesse Morgan on 2006-10-02 21:13:56
I might write something interesting later. Been busy at pierce and doing nothing :P
What's new since... long ago
By: Jesse Morgan on 2006-09-08 11:10:06
Wow, I was doing well there for a while. Let's see.. what's been going on. Well, the Keith's party was.. interesting (no surprise there), finished up Drivers Ed. on the 31st. We had Oscar for the last three days, I think he was late every day. On the last couple of days me and few others started hanging out in PHS's gym building making fun of the old team pictures. Had my first drive on the 28th, that went ok. Second drive was on the 6th, allowed to move onto Drive #3, so that must have been ok. (Had it been a DOL test I would have failed rather quickly for not stoping before backing acrossed a crosswalk). Made $50 doing some tech work for some friends from co-op on the 1st. My cousin was born on the 4th, then yesterday we had the co-op's youthgroup kick off party :D An eleven hour long kick off party. With.. airsoft :D (and some other stuff). Me and Cameron (who no one reading this would know, but anyways) ended up winning everything we were teamed up in (which was just about everything), including the "obstacle course" with a time of 59 seconds. The next best time was also ours, 1:04, and the third best time was... ours also: 1:13. We also played football (two-hand-touch) and flashlight tag (flashlight hide and seek would be a better name). I was only found once, in the last round, when I hid in a very uncomfortable position in the front yard. The other three times I was never found :D Oh, and we also played softball against Lighthouse co-op on the 31st, ACTS won. So there's a jumbled account of the last couple of weeks. Today 24 hour leadership retreat with Foursquare, then tech at PFC, then the start of the end of summer :(
In The Ceiling Again
By: Jesse Morgan on 2006-08-23 08:43:53
It has been an interesting past few days. Yesterday I spent some more time in the ceiling at church, this time pulling the fiber optic cable we were measuring for last week. We got it from the crows nest, down into the ceiling, down the hall, through the bulkhead, and to the first corner before we had to leave. Daniel and Craig should be finishing up this afternoon while I go to a party for the Keiths :P On Monday we had a makeup class for Drivers Ed., since we had no class on the 15th. I was kinda hoping to have another sub. (then I could say I had four different instructors in one drivers ed. class :P), but we had Dan, and a test... I missed three questions. I was hoping to miss one and keep my missing-one-question-on-every-test streak going. Oh well. Sunday was FHS as usual, we had a guest band, The Outlet, come do special music. They will having a concert at Foursquare on Friday the 25th at 7:00 PM ($5.00/person) if any one is interested. And finally, Satuday was the Cornwell BBQ. We were out at someone's house on the Puget Sound. Was kinda interesting, we went and played out in a small boat, boated around the Sound a bit in a not so small boat, ate, had a war with seaweed, etc. I still think I'd have rather gone to ACTS' Youthgroup's BBQ. Practically nothing at all happened on Friday (nothing I remember at least), so I have nothing to say about that. Today, Drivers Ed. and a party for the Keiths. Perhaps that'll be more interesting than this stuff :P
Head in the.. Ceiling
By: Jesse Morgan on 2006-08-17 22:32:31
Guess who showed up at Drivers Ed. today. Yup, Oscar. He wasn't too bad, better than Dan's sad sense of humor at least. Kinda makes me think of a black preacher (possibly because he started out preaching why he teaches, and got louder the more he talked). I still think the guy who filled in Wednesday was the best, but who knows, maybe Monday's make-up class will have an even better instructor. Now.. what was I doing with my head in the ceiling? Well, I helped out at PFC again, and where does Brent send us? Into the ceiling/floor to measure the distance of fiber cable we need. Some background info: my church is a two story building with a balcony in the auditorium. Little did I know that one could go up through a ceiling tile and walk around up there. Sadly there was no catwalk... just planks of flimsy wood running between the metal struts the drywall on the ceiling is screwed to. At one point we could watch the whole ceiling bend underneath us as we walked.. over.. the hallway towards the church office. Other then playing in the ceiling, not much happened today. We hung another TV bracket in the ceiling upstairs, and collected all the unused unistruts that we were planning on using to mount the TVs. But now I get to sleep.. then possibly work, and maybe call the hosting company that put my server out of business for a few hours after bruteforcing me (see "Lag Time" for more about that).
Day 2 at PFC
By: Jesse Morgan on 2006-08-16 22:09:09
Wow, two posts in a row. If you're lucky I won't do this every day :P I spent the day at Foursquare again, but this time it was after my Drivers Ed. class. Yup, one of the owners of 911 Driving School came down and taught the class for us. Supposedly the original subsitute will be there tomorrow, but we'll wait and see. I spent the day hanging TVs from ceilings by little bits of wire... I don't think I'll ever sit under a ceiling mounted television again. I helped hang four TVs with a guy named Keith; two downstairs, one upstairs. So in other words, today was pretty uneventful. After we hung the last TV, I rode off to PCBC for youthgroup. I was half an hour early, so I rode around the parking lot on my bike playing with a cell phone. Eventually D. showed up, then Allison, then Joel. As 7 o'clock came around we started wondering where Jeff, the pastor who should have been there half an hour early, was. After getting no answer on his cell phone we decided to sit around outside and wait. and wait. and wait. We ended up spending the hour we would normally have had youthgroup talking about Allison's MIT trip to Korea. Then I went home and ate... chili :D Leftovers rock! I do believe I'll end this poorly written.. thing.. here. Perhaps I'll write again tomorrow, or you might get lucky.
A Day At PFC
By: Jesse Morgan on 2006-08-15 22:25:48
I decided to spend the day helping out at my church after Drivers Ed. this morning. Well, it would have been after Drivers Ed., but I had no Drivers Ed. Our normal instructor decided to go on a vacation to Disney Land and told us we would have a substitute. (Un)fortunately Oscar, the Substitute, didn't show up. So after spending half an hour waiting outside with the rest of my class, I rode off a bit early to my church. I started off the morning helping pull cable from the Control Room to Brent's (the Tech Pastor) office. Then we (me and Daniel) ran around to all the class rooms and pulled out ceiling tiles for the TVs that will be installed for the school (CCS Elementry uses our church). After that I took some pieces out of one of the old graphics computers and stuck them in the sound monitoring computer, then helped setup the mobile sound system for an awesome band that was performing for 412, the young adults ministry. Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the band, but if I do I'll add it. Finally, after chasing down cables for the band I headed home, ate dinner (mmmmm chili..), and finished filebin2! Yeah, I finished the second version of my filebin in less than two days :D I have a few more features that need to be added to the User Center, but the filebin itself is now finished and can be accessed at http://jesterpm.net/filebin2. Oh, and btw, THE BEST licorice you'll ever have is triple salted black licorice. Now to go to bed and see what awaits tomorrow. Maybe we'll actually have a teacher...
Welcome
By: Jesse Morgan on 2006-08-11 20:54:34
So I created a blog.. Yeah, I thought it'd never happen, mostly because it would get no use. It probably won't get any use, but I wanted to keep the homepage of jesterpm.net for site related stuff. So we'll see how this goes, perhaps I'll keep it, perhaps I'll delete it. For anyone wondering, this page uses the same backend as my main site, just a slightly different template. I also remove the security alerts. Not sure if I'll leave them out or put them back.
