http://www.r4n0k.com A peek into my life, and the projects I never complete Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:54:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello everyone, I'm taking just a few minutes from my busy day of painting, sanding, weed whacking and boat driving to update you on my past few days in Temagami. I arrived on the 22nd and spent a good sum of time trying to get the water running, and the propane ... http://www.r4n0k.com/2008/06/02/greetings-from-up-north/ As some of you know, this summer (and many before that) I spent paddling in northern Ontario (and beyond). This year will be my second year on staff, and I'm one of the few who will be going up early to set this up and prepare for the influx of ... http://www.r4n0k.com/2008/05/18/trip-to-temagami/ This is my first music review, but I thought I'd give it a shot -- any comments would be much appreciated. After searching for more music like Porcupine Tree, I found another one of Steven Wilson's project bands, Blackfield. Blackfield is a joint effort between british Steven Wilson and israeli Aviv ... http://www.r4n0k.com/2008/05/13/review-blackfield-blackfield-ii/ That's the reaction I've gotten from Clarkson for, wait for it, staying more than 24 hours past my last final. My final ended at 11:45 yesterday, and I'm hopefully going to be gone by 1:30 today. I say hopefully because everytime the maintainence people come knocking on my door (starting ... http://www.r4n0k.com/2008/05/03/how-dare-i-be-here/ As the semester is coming to a close, I thought I'd list some of the things I was able to get done this semester and what I'd like to progress on in the future. Accomplishments: Released the Open Server Platform version 0.2 Managed COSI's Zimbra server Took the following classes: Compilers, Operating Systems, Network ... http://www.r4n0k.com/2008/04/24/end-of-semester-wrap-up/ As school is starting to come to a close, for many of use, rather than a time for relaxing with friends and preparing for summer internships or jobs, it is a time of stress, studying and many sleepless nights, either working of projects, or tossing back and forth thinking of ... http://www.r4n0k.com/2008/04/12/the-final-push/ After less than a week OSP has reached another milestone in it's development! Version 0.2 was just released with a few big fixes, performance improvments and added functionality. Also the documentation has been improved and made consistant with the code. The most important bug fix was a performance issue that caused ... http://www.r4n0k.com/2008/04/07/osp-version-02-released/ I'm happy to announce that my OSP version has gotten stable enough to release version 0.1! While still a very temperamental system, it is showing true promise. It's gotten to the point where on the first node, you edit a configuration file and run start-osp.sh and on each of the ... http://www.r4n0k.com/2008/04/03/osp-v01-released/ Generally, I keep my opinions on this rather touchy topic to myself or to my close friends. However, I think our globalized world has reached a point where people need to get their issues resolved and stop fighting about religion. Please be aware that these are my opinions, and I'm ... http://www.r4n0k.com/2008/03/29/on-religion-my-reaction-to-fitna-and-camp-jesus/ Just a quick little PHP script I wrote for one of my professors to generate a RSS feed of files in a directory. It's pretty simple to setup, and is mostly useful for either providing a RSS feed for updated files, or for a Podcast, just put this somewhere on ... http://www.r4n0k.com/2008/03/28/a-quick-little-hack-easyrss/