I updated the blog software... if there are any problems let me know.

So, yeah, I didn't post my stories of the Week on Sunday... I'll post Double next week.....

I had to work bright and early this morning for work---- 6AM is the time I had to be there... yes, before anybody else even thinks about getting up... work was busy today... Had to install a demo unit today... hence working at 6:00.. and of course we had a meeting today... which ran an hour and a half past when I was supposed to leave... so more fun for me...

School... labs... per usual Wednesdays...

And, needless to say I'm tired as all get out....

oh, I almost forgot... no work for me on Friday, Saturday or Sunday.... so it'll be nice.... I have some quizzes I need to do anyway.... and some CDs to buy....

Additionally, I don't think I'll be sending e-mails to myself from my phone.... it uses way too much bandwidth, and it's 0.10¢ per Kilobyte... so it's expensive...

Well, I'm not going to be taking a class over the summer, because the class I wanted to take, I was the only one who signed up. So, I guess I'll finish my certifications and possibly get a couple of Microsoft ones as well... we'll see..

Here's a link I would like everybody to go to and sign. EFF RIAA Petition

This petition is by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to stop the harassment practices of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)

Well this website is now running on my new Webserver. I was able to make it a secure webserver now. So the streaming music section should be secure. It might be a bit slower due to the processing time needed to process the SSL stuff.

So If there's something that's not working let me know.

I hope to get the members section back up soon... maybe

After many hours of frustration and irritation I got my new webserver parts and it's back up and running...

I have put a different Operating system on it. I'm going to try and setup a secure website so I can re-create my members section again... but we'll see how long that takes.

So for now my server will be running on my computer. Here are the specs for the new parts

Biostar 6100-M Motherboard
AMD Sempron 3100+ Socket 754 64-bit Processor
Buffalo 1024 MB of RAM
Maxtor 200GB SATA Drive

Well my webserver decided to take a dump off of the proverbial cliff, so It's been temporarily placed on my computer... it might be faster, let me know if anybody notices a difference.

I'm not sure what I will replace it with... most likely just some other parts which I will have to buy tomorrow. I'm not sure yet though..

Cryptography contains the word 'cry'. Does anybody know why? Well, it's because it's such a pain in the ass, and so finicky that it will make you cry if you try and figure out what's wrong for too long. On wednesday during lab, we must have spent almost 2 hours trying to figure out why our cryptographic certificates weren't working. We figured out that it was the date and time mismatches, but they never stayed whenever we tried to put them in. One of my classmates finally figured it out.

and it's always fun when working with math and keys that are 512 bits long... but oh well..

Here's a good shockwave for you http://home.ptd.net/~k3ph/alayin.swf

And another

To Whom it may concern (you know who you are):

Nobody is ever who they say they are. Why must everybody put up a front and pretend to be something that they're not? It bothers me to no end when people do this. oh well, so much for actually trying to do anything nice for anybody and trying to protect people. It bothers me that everybody just thinks that I'm lying and trying to be controlling. Well nobody understands me. I wish people would get out of their fantasy worlds and jump into reality. We all have to grow up sometime, might as well be now.

Why doesn't anybody just be who they are? Why does everybody have to say one thing and do another? Why can't people just be honest anymore? I'm sick of everybody lying, trying to be manipulative and just being inconsiderate towards others feelings. I'm sick of people living in their fantasy worlds and not living in reality. It's time to wake up, grow up and see what the world is really like. It's not all fun and games.

All I ever try to do is protect people, but they don't see it as that, they think I'm trying to be controlling. well, guess what I'm not. I know what the true world is like, and sometimes, I think that people need to be shown what's it like so they're ready for it. But nobody sees it that way. I try and give people advice, they don't like it. I try to be helpful, they just ignore me.

So if you really need to know what I'm thinking or what my thoughts are, let me know. But I don't expect anybody to.