2002-03-18 11:02:01 96
- Spring break is over :( Where did it go? Last weekend I went to Natchez.
I got a new tire and a rim for my car so it is happy now. Also Brumfield got
me to go to the Confederate Pagent with him and I ended up being a soldier
with the Knights of Columbus at the beginning of the show. Then on Tuesday
I drove back up here so that I could go with the band to the NCAA women's
tourney on Wednesday. We met at around 12 at the wonderful band hall. The
men's band got to leave pretty quickly but we had to wait around until around
2. When we finally made it to GTR, the men's plane was still there. After a
while we got on to our plane and flew out. It was my first time to fly so it
was really neat. Almost as soon as we got in the air, we were over State's
campus. I tried to take some pictures of stuff, but my pictures of campus did
not turn out very well. I did get some good ones of the MS river though. We
made it to Lubbock ahead of schedule and they bussed us to the Four Points
Sheraton. We went out that first night to a sports bar called Bleachers that
was in the Depot District downtown. It was pretty neat even though there were
not many people there due to spring break. After a while we went down the
street to a place called Tom's Daiquiris and finished out the night there.
Thursday, we went to the mall. It was a huge mall, supposedlly the largest
single level in Texas. After about 2 hours of wandering around, it became
pretty boring so about 6 of us talked the bus driver into taking us back to
the hotel. We ate at Joe's Crab Shack that night and I got the illustrious
Richelle Baustian a neato shirt.
Later that night we went to a place called Midnight Rodeo. Even
though we were in Texas, I still thought all of the cowboys looked silly with
plate sized belt buckles and pants pulled up to their necks. I'll write more
later.
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2002-03-02 23:57:34 95
This week was great. Monday night my left front tire decided to eat a
brake pad. Turns out, my caliper was locked up. So I had to order one and after
it came in, I got it replaced it with no problems. In this
picture you can see the new
caliper on the left and the broken one (see the piston sticking out) on the
right. It feels good to save money.
Had a party last weekend, had
this many girls in my room.
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2002-03-02 17:06:18 94
- My brother told me that I should update my webpage so I am.
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2002-02-09 00:21:26 93
- I saw Vanilla Ice last night. It was a great experience.
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2002-02-07 00:34:22 92
- My wireless access point has been functional for a week or so. It is a
Pentium 60 on a small square AT mobo. It has 32MB RAM which is overkill,
a 10/100 Intel network card, and an ISA to PCMCIA adapter with a Orinoco
Silver wireless card. The whole thing boots off of a floppy and is running
WRP which is basically a stripped down Linux that has network drivers. I got
the WRP image and packages from
www.nocat.net. It was VERY easy to get the
wireless card working, as soon as the damn thing booted it made the activity
lights start blinking. However I had a hard time getting a wired card to work.
I tried five net cards before I pulled the Intel card from Bill. I have ordered
a pretty neat Compact Flash to IDE adapter that plugs right onto the IDE
interface on the mobo. It and a 4MB Compact Flash card will let me get rid of
the floppy drive, so the only moving parts will be the fans in the power
supply. I am also in the process of building a plexiglass case for the access
point. It might be done tomorrow.
- My new laptop is awesome. It is an IBM Thinkpad 770. The processor is a
233 Pentium MMX and I have upped the RAM to 256MB. It has a huge 13.3 inch
screen (well it seems huge compared to my old 12 inch). I have Mandrake 8.1
working on it great. Its name is Mundie.
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2002-01-30 18:24:17 91
- I am sad. I had to turn Bill off to pull a network card that would serve
better somewhere else. Right before he went down, this was the return of
uptime: "6:24pm up 29 days, 7:51, 3 users, load average: 0.25, 0.12, 0.04"
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2002-01-28 23:54:45 90
- Bill has been up for 27 days, 13:23. Sadly I am going to have to reboot
soon because I need to install a ISA/PCMCIA adapter for a wireless card.
Hmmmm, I wonder if it would hurt too much to plug in an ISA card without
shutting down. Most likely blow something up.
- I had fun at ISIP today fixing a page because it was actually a challenge.
The page is for registration for the summer workshop and is a Perl cgi that
generates a html page and validates the input. I had to add a few inputs so
that taught me a lot about Perl and HTML forms.
- I helped Sesti set up the server at Human Sciences yesterday. I learned
way too much about sendmail trying to get incoming mail to work. RedHat has
one stupid line in the sendmail.cf that only lets mail work locally until it
is commented out.
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2002-01-14 21:33:17 89
- Richelle and I went out and hiked the Noxubee wilderness trail yesterday.
I am working on updating the images section with pictures of the trip.
- My mighty linux box has been up for 13 days, 11:02 hours. "Uname -a" now
reveals "Linux bill.sesser.net 2.4.16 #6 Mon Dec 10 16:53:13 CST 2001 i686."
So apparently I did something good on my birthday by installing a very stable
kernel. Bill usually does not stay up much longer than about four days at a
time because I'll do something stupid like unplugging him or needing to test
out a drive of some sort.
- I have so busy. ISIP had the SRSDRW'02 this past week and I had to work
my ass off. I am just thankful that the week is over.
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2001-12-31 18:11:41 88
- I worked a long time today :) Dr Picone took everyone at the office out
to eat at Little Doey's. He was really suprised that I have never been to
there before. The barbeque (sp?) was decent but I think that the Pig Out Inn
in Natchez is better. Their baked beans sucked compared to mine (my mother's
recipe) but the hush puppies were really good.
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2001-12-14 19:14:11 87
- About time for an update. I turned the big 20 last monday. I started the
day off right with a Physics final. Wheeee. Definately been a stressful week.
- Last week I moved my site to a new server and some of my text was
corrupted.
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2001-12-06 14:45:46 86
- I changed the way I did dates again. It is now the exact output of the
'date' command.
- I have moved my site again. It is now on my fightforyourrights server.
Even though www.sesser.net points here, the
"REAL" URL of this site is jim.fightforyourrights.net
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0000-00-00 00:00:00 85
- Berryhill, Chris, Jaime, and I went to Clinton to see Natchez High
play soccer. Clinton beat the guys 13-0. That was expected (maybe not that
bad) because Clinton is usually in the running for state champ every year.
I did get to see Erin, who came over from MC, and Chad Jones, who had came
down from DSU, so it was not a total waste :) I even got to see David lay
out at least three of the Clinton guys without even getting a yellow card.
The fifth is his birtday, so I had bought him a copy of Pink Floyd's The
Wall on VHS. After the game the four of us stopped at the Olive Garden off
of County Line in Jackson. Olive Garden sucks majorly compared to Old
Venice in Starkville, the food was crap. Our waiter sucked too. So I will
never go to another Olive Garden if I can help it. Richelle, being the
sweet angelic person she is, had let me take her car, because I do not
need to stress my car out too much right now. She could not go because she
had a class in the late afternoon. I filled up her car, a 95ish Corrola in
Starkville and again in Jackson. If my roughish calculations are correct,
her car made close to 40 miles a gallon from Starkville to Clinton and
back to northish Jackson which is pretty damn good. We made it back to
Starkville around 1ish and now I am updating this page. I think I should
go to sleep now :)
- The MSU BYU game was horrible. BYU did not receive nearly enough
penalties. On aies. On almost EVERY play, they were guilty of very blantant
holding, yet were never flagged. Also they lined up illegally for all of
their field goals and extra point attempts and were only penalized the
second time they did it; they only got a warning the first time. If there
had been decent officials, MSU would have ended BYU's undefeated season.
- I have been so busy recently. Everything is so hectic, rush, rush,
rush, turn stuff in now......
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- Wheeee. State won the Egg Bowl. Looks like we will have a pretty good
season next year with Fant. The statistics of the game are
here.
Basically the stats I like are that Manning passed for only 213 yards by
attempting 36 and making only 16, not to mention 3 interceptions. Fant
only made 21 attempts, making 14 of them and had NO INTERCEPTIONS. By my
math Fant completed 66.7% and Manning completed only 38.8% while throwing
interceptions 14% of the time. Maybe this will keep Ole Miss from a bowl
game. I cannot wait until next year because without Madkin, State should
go nearly undefeated.
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0000-00-00 00:00:00 83
- So now it is Thanksgiving morning. Wheee. Today pretty much felt like
a holiday even though I worked at ISIP for a while. I fixed a lot of
entries in the bug database. Good thing that we went over SQL in CS just
recently :) I think I just might have impressed Dr Picone a little. I
hope
so. Something I have been wondering is if he ever reads my website. Maybe
he will tell me now if he reads this. I have heard that previous web
designers for ISIP have written not such good things on their personal
websites while they worked at ISIP.
- Bell South DSL blows! Our upload bandwidth is so chocked that if
someone is uploading a file of decent size, our latency to the next server
out is 2.3 SECONDS!! That is absolutely horrible. Our latency with no
with no
uploads hovers around 22 milliseconds. I really bet that the problem lies
in the crappy 3Com internal DSL modem we have. Probabally sucks at
transmitting and receiving at the same time.
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0000-00-00 00:00:00 82
- Last night we went out close to the winery around 2 AM where there
were not too many lights and watched the Leonoids. It was really neat.
- I have been trying to get a new OS on my laptop for a few days now. I
tried
Windows XP
but the install locked up at detecting hardware. Tried
Windows 2K
but it locked up too. Then I tried
Redhat
6.2, 7.1, and 7.2.
Every time the Redhat install would get to the PCMCIA detection (which is
at the very beginning of the install) and not do anything else. So I tried
Mandrake Linux
7.2, 8.0, and 8.1. Mandrake apparently does not like mys not like my
keyboard because it usually takes two presses to get a key to read. So
then I tried
Solaris 8.
It installed perfectly. The only bad thing is
PCMCIA support is non existant so no networking at all for me. Then I
tried
FreeBSD
and it works absolutely
wonderful, but there is no driver for my network card.
NetBSD
is supposed
to have a driver for my card but it would not install correctly. Now I am
downloading
QNX
which seems like a really neat OS. AND they support my
network card. If it doesn't work I am going to be pissed.
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0000-00-00 00:00:00 81
- I had fun tonight. Berryhill made a pot of *really* strong coffee
around 10 and we drank the whole thing. Then we went riding around and
eventually made it to walmart. I bought a bunch of neat stuff, the most
important thing was a roll of 16 guage automotive wire. When we got back
around 11:30 I went out to my wonderful Camry with a flashlight and I
rewired the speaker that used to be part of the alarm system. I grounded
it to the firewall where the speaker is attached and I ran a wire into the
car. I connected a hot wire to the lighter and put a push button switch
between the two. Now whenever the ignition is turned on and I push the
switch, it makes a really loud wailing noise. It's really great. Now I
just hope that a cop neverp never sees me do it and gets me for my bluish
headlights and siren for impersonating a police person. Anyway I bet I can
scare the crap out of people once I get the switch hidden.
- Last week sucked. It was way too busy and I did not feel like I got
very much done at all. Maybe I can be a lot more productive this week.
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0000-00-00 00:00:00 80
- I got to see the Boston Brass Thursday night. The trumpet players are
just insane. The band is going to play Caravan with them today at pregame.
- I am now running the 2.4.13-ac6 kernel. This is the first time I have
ever tried a patched version and not a main number version. Also this is
the first time I have tried Alan Cox's source tree.
- My 256MB Micron RAM came in yesterday. That gives me a total of 512 MB
of main memory. hehehe
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0000-00-00 00:00:00 79
- I had to make 100 four page double sided stapled brochures for ISIP today.
Luckily after a few tries, I figured out how to make the almighty ECE copy
machine do all of the hard work for me.
- I have the 2.4.13 kernel running now. I compiled my SCSI driver into the
kernel so maybe it will get better performance whenever my hard drive comes in.
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0000-00-00 00:00:00 78
- This weekend was great. Brumfield, Berryhill and I rode to Natchez in
Brumfield's Bravada. We left around 3 even though we were supposed to
leave at 2. We stopped in a neat 50ish burger place in Jackson off of
Lakeland and it was really neat. Then we drove to Monticello and went to
the Boy Scout camporee so that Brumfield could see his dad. I got to see
my troop for the first time in a year. We left and made it to Natchez
around 10, so it took us almost 7 hours to make the trip. Saturday
Berryhill and I went to Louisiana so that I could get a haircut at the
place where I have gotten my hair cut since like the seventh grade. I rode
around Natchez some and showed Berryhill some of the neat buildings.
Brumfield had to take some stuff to his dad at the camporee so we met
David when he got out of the ACT. My mom cooked for Berryhill and I so we
had a really nice lunch. Then we went out in the almighty Jeep and drove
around Kingston. After a while we went back to town and met Brumfield and
David at Fat Mama's because Berryhill really wanted some tamales and a
tshirt. Brumfield's mom had gotten us tickets to go to the Angels on the
Bluff so we went to it. It was really neat because everything was done in
candlelight and there were a bunch of people acting out dead people from
Natchez's history. After that Burmfield took us on the grand tour of the
roof of the Eola. Then we went bowling with Trae and Lisa. Trae beat me on
the first game but I kicked his ass on the second. Lisa was pissed
everytime I got a strike because she bowls with the league now. On the
first game Trae had a turkey. After the bowling alley closed Brumfield,
Berryhill, and I went riding around until about 2. Then today we left my
house around 1, picked up Jaime in Brookhaven, and made it up here before
7.
- A song I have liked for a long time (cira 1998) turns out to be Way
be Way
Down by Catherine Wheel.
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0000-00-00 00:00:00 77
- I have a new chair and it is really bad ass. I had to get a new chair
so that I could rearrange my computer. It is really organized now, the
first time in a year or so. This is an "Executive" chair normally $212 but
was on sale at Office Depot for $99.
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0000-00-00 00:00:00 76
- Chris and I drove to Jackson to pick up Jaime. I got to see Erin for
the first time in a year because Chris called her and got her to meet us
at Northpark. She seems so different now. I guess mostly because I
haven't seen her in a year. Crazy but I guess I'm a lot different too.
Just as long as Trae and Lisa stay the same, the world will still be a
good
place.
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2009-04-12 10:21:01 75
- We suck again. LSU played football and State's team watched, just like
at Florida. I think the only game we have a chance of winning will be
against Kentucky next week. At least for next year, Mrs Lance told the
band that the LSU game will be a full band trip and we will stay in New
Orleans.
- The Davis's made it up ok and I got to see them for a while. Richelle
went home this weekend and Angela really wanted to meet her. Oh well, I
guess we will just have to go down to Baton Rouge sometime.
- This weekend, Sesti and I were industrious and built a really nice
shelf for our apartment :)
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0000-00-00 00:00:00 74
- This week was pretty good. It will be better if we kick LSU's ass. The
Davis's are supposed to be coming up tomorrow so that should be
interesting.
- My favorite emacs command right now is spook. It is a great command
that inserts about three lines of random words meant to spark the interest
of groups like the NSA and CIA. Here is some sample output: "plutonium
Khaddafi terrorist Albanian Ft. Meade Uzi Legion of Doom
security NORAD cracking supercomputer Mossad assassination munitions
radar"
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0000-00-00 00:00:00 73
- Bill is happy again. I figured out that my moniter supports even higher
resolutions so I am happier now too.
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0000-00-00 00:00:00 72
- I went with the pep band to Auburn Saturday. It was a really good game
except for about the last minute. The officials made some REALLY bad calls
against State. Probabally set a record in penalty yardage in the first two
minutes of a game.
- I totally broke Bill this weekend. Running 'hdparm' and playing
and playing
around with stuff can break stuff really bad. I essentially nuked my
entire filesystem. No mp3's no homework, no nothing is left. I made a new
install of Redhat 7.1 and everything is running fairly well now.
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0000-00-00 00:00:00 71
- Today was a great day at work. Dr Picone hired another web designer,
Micheal Peach who is in the band, is a native English speaker, and can
code straight HTML. The last two web designers had NONE of these
qualities. Another thing happened, isip002 just crashed this afternoon. I
had an xterm open and it went poof. I tried to open another and I got a
"/bin/bash not found isip002 NFS not responding." I think everything is
fixed now though. Then tonight when I checked my mail I saw that Dr Picone
had "terminated" Nitin. Nitin was an interesting web designer. He lasted
almost two whole weeks. I was planning on ranting about Nitin some more
but that wouldn't be any good.
- Phish's version of "Gin & Juice" is truly a great song.
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0000-00-00 00:00:00 70
- My apartment is clean. We cleaned it this weekend. Berryhill
bought a $140 vaccum cleaner that is awesome. Then we moved all of
the furniture and used a Dr Rug on it so almost all of the nast
stains are gone. We pulled several pounds of dirt out of the carpet.
Then Sesti and I bought several rugs, one for the front door, two for
the kitchen, one for our bathroom, and a big one for the big part of
the bathroom.
- Since we thought the game was going to be at 6 we missed it because
we were still cleaning until around 5ish. It made me so sad to hear what
the score was. I get to go to Auburn this weekend and I hope they play
better.
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- So we didn't kick South Carolina's ass in the football game. At least
we still had a great pregame show that was nationally televised. Will
another SEC school EVER see that? I don't think so.
- Berryhill and I went shopping today. I've gotten good enought so I
don't have to buy food much anymore but I found this pack of chicken legs
(4 or 5, I'm not sure) and it was on sale for only $1.05 and it had a
coupon on it for $1 if you bought 3 cans of Grands biscuits. I thought
this was a real deal because the chicken would be only $.05 after the
coupon. The only thing though are that Grands were like $1.50 a can so it
really was not a deal. But I still got the chicken because that is a lot
of meat for $1.50. Then we saw Godiva ice cream for $2.00. THATS RIGHT
$2.00 for about 12 ounces of lovely delight. So I got some Chocolate
Raspberry Truffle and it is good and I have a lot left.
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- Today has been another interesting day. Had CS this morning and had a
quiz. I did not do very well because I did not exactly learn much in class
Tuesday. I had a lot of fun reading the boards at
www.info-x.co.uk There is this one
guy who posts as Brom and he wants the US to go bomb whoever did it. Then
there are these little faries who are saying "who is the US to boss around
other countries." I think that is BS. I read some really neat points in
other places too. Whenever there is a earthquake or a flood, who is the
first country to go help? The US. The US goes out and helps everyone. When
the US is flooded or has earthquakes or tornados or hurricanes no one
comes and helps us. When other countries get invaded, who helps?helps? Usually
the US leads the movement and England, Australia, and Canada join in and
bring in the UN. There seems like there is a lot of anti US feelings in
some people. But where would the wo world be if it weren't for the US getting
involved in other countries problems? First there is world war one where
the US bailed western Europe out. Then there was world war two where if
the US had not helped, all of Europe would have been taken over by the
Nazis and eventually all of the world would have been taken over. It looks
like the US's foreign policy is going to be on the offensive like it was
during Teddy's term because Colin Powell said that terrorism is a blight
upon civilizatiolization and must be wiped out.
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- Today has certainly been interesting. Being the responsible human
being I am I got up early this morning and took my band uniform pants
(which were somewhat muddy) to the dry cleaners. Sesti called me and told
me that the Pentagon was on fire and smoking a lot. So I came back to the
apartment and the World Trade Center was on CBS news. I saw a the hole in
one of the towers and my first thought was how did somebody get a bomb
that high up in the tower? Then after about five more minutes a plane (the
second plane) flew in and hit the other tower. When I saw that plane, I
was thinking it was around the size of a private jet and not an enormous
Boeing. So I wasn't even thinking that there could have been THAT much
damage. Then it was time for class, so I went to CS and was bored for an
hour and a half. When I left class I heard on the radio that the planes
were full of passengers. Until then I had th had thought that some crazy people
had just taken some planes off of the ground and taken off. I watched ABC
and CNN news from 11 when I got out of class until 5 when I had to go to
band. So far the game is still on for this Saturday at least until we know
for sure if the BYU people will be able to fly. After practice everyone
who wanted to prayed on the 30 yard line of the practice field. I was
really impressed because almost the entire band was there. In Starkville
(in Natchez too because I tuse I talked to my dad) there is a gas shortage scare
apparently started by rumors with people waiting in line 10 cars deep to
get gas. Luckily I had a full tank of gas from last night so I didn't
even worry about getting more. I just hope that all of the markets stay
stable Thursday when they open. I am pretty sure that everything will be
ok. If we go to war, that will help our market even more, but I hope we
don't really go to war. Just as long as the US can figure out who helped
and then bomben bomb the hell out of them and not have a draft. That would be
fine for me. Anyway I have a Linear Algebra test tomorrow (it hasn't been
cancelled yet) so it's sleepy time for me.
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