NSA Spying - Darker Things Below the Surface 11 Jun 2014 12:17 AM (10 years ago)
I, like most Americans am appalled by the NSA's actions in intercepting and storing every piece of data they can about generally every person on Earth, especially American citizens. In doing so, they are quite obviously breaking Constitutional law, which is supposedly the law of the land, through their loose interpretation of the Patriot Act. While we can see on the surface that their reason for doing so is to prevent crimes and catch terrorists, there are deeper, darker reasons that seem to lurk beneath the surface.
Nightingale, Life, and More! 16 Oct 2011 2:30 PM (13 years ago)
It's been far too long since I posted here! Since I last did, I've graduated college, gotten a job, left that job, picked up development on an opensource project, and many other things in between.I graduated from Evangel University with a Bachelor's in Public Administration, and then moved on to start doing contracting jobs for php/MySQL, and Linux server management, despite my degree, which I guess just makes me good at managing tasks, people, and the like.Furthermore, I've started working on the Nightingale project (http://getnightingale.com), which is a community driven fork of the mozilla based Songbird music player. We hope to make Linux support more prominent first, but also keep multiplatform support going too, while adding features and generally doing a better job than the Songbird team has since they started making money.Otherwise, I'm planning on making some changes to my blog. I'm not sure what the template will look like, but I'm busy working on importing my comments, links, downloads, and of course my posts into wordpress, and also will find a way to to hopefully 301 all of the SEF urls from jooma as well.Whatever the case, check out the blog here in a week or two and hopefully I'll have more to say!
Contemplating My Need for A Virtual Private Server 1 Aug 2010 4:15 PM (14 years ago)
Have you ever considered using a virtual private server? They are nice, because you do maintain full control, with a peace of mind about not having to really deal with the hardware whatsoever, or even set up the operating system, whether it be *nix based, or Windows. I'm almost to a point with all of my websites that I may need to look into a VPS (http://www.inmotionhosting.com/vps_hosting.html) to at the very least host my busiest SQL databases. I'm looking for linux based hosts, and so far have found a few that look promising.I need to decide how much RAM and diskspace I really need. Right now, my databases are setup to be as conservative as possible, but I have a feeling if I unshackled them so that I could unlock the full potential of my CMS softwares that I may get to the point of requiring more resources than ever imaginged. Being that I dabble in Black and Greyhat SEO, some of the applications, scripts, and techniques I use are...taxing, to say the least.A VPS really is better than the current shared hosting I have. Only my data would be on the VPS, meaning more security. Furthermore, with guranteed resources, my sites would all perform as fast as they possibly could, depending on how much RAM and processor power I purchase. My current shared host throttles my CPU, RAM, and disk space allotments. A VPS seems the next logical step, as dedicated servers are way too expensive - between dealing with purchasing the space, my own hardware, configuring it, and dealing with failures, it just seems illogical.Wouldn't a VPS be the best of both worlds? It's managed hardware wise, so you don't have to pay for that, and it gives you complete backend controls with dashboards and what not, but without sharing with anybody else or maintaining expensive hardware of your own. VPS's also offer burstable memory and such, allowing you to deal with the digg effect without having a huge server crash as 50,000 people hit your blog simultaneously (I've dealt with that one on shared hosting before - it wasn't pretty).Furthermore, I can have the VPS grow with me as my sites and their requirements for resources grow. Instead of manually upgrading anything, you in most cases just adjust a slider and lock yourself in for higher resources...nice and easy.Besides being good for my blogs, VPS's are ideal for about anyone who forsees themselves doing any ecommerce, cloud computing, or large database type of serving, especially on a budget. These types of sites usually tend to grow anyway, and a VPS is a good deal because it is the perfect mix of shared hosting and it's ease of use, and the customizations available with dedicated servers, minus all the work to keep them maintained... Do any of you have any suggestions? I know that a lot of the people that will read this post are in the IT profession, or at least have some experience with Linux or...
Original XBox - No eeprom? No valid XBox Partition Table? NO PROBLEM! 27 Jul 2010 10:34 AM (14 years ago)
I know this is really pretty late, considering that I'm tinkering on an old original XBox. I got it at a garage sale for $35 with 4 controllers and the DVD kit...I figured it was a fun toy.As soon as I got home, I set out to softmod the thing and install XBMC. I got that all setup and working, and then needed to use 360Xplorer to modify some things - it crashed, and I lost one of the partitions. I ended up getting xboxhdm to try and just rebuild the drive. I followed the guides to make my disk (though I didn't have my eeprom.bin saved!). Oh noes! It would seem hope is lost, judging from 20-30 posts on the same issue made by others I've found.I have found a way to fix it. Go ahead and build your xboxhdm setup with your C and E drive files inside, and then proceed to hotswap your drive by unplugging the power to your XBox DVD drive, and then turn it on. Once it displays Error 12, plug the cable that usually plugs into your desktop's main hard drive into the XBox hard drive, after removing the IDE cable connecting it to the XBox. Make sure you just have the XBox and your drive with xboxhdm connected at this point, with the XBox drive on the primary IDE channel.Proceed to turn on your computer, and boot into xboxhdm. Run xboxhd and see if your drive is still unlocked. If not, you'll need to reboot your computer with the xbox drive still connected, and once it gets to the xboxhdm boot screen, wait, and do the XBox hotswap process again by unplugging the XBox drive from the desktop, plugging it back to the XBox, and powercycling the XBox until it shows error 12 again. Then, reconnect the drive to your computer which is still on, and hit enter to boot.After running xboxhdm, you may do something like wipe out the fatx partition table, or you may just have some weird stuff going on with the partitions (like them not being detected). The solution? Read on.First, cd into /xboxhdm/xbox. Then, perform the following commands, one at a time:dd if=head.raw of=/dev/hda bs=512kdd if=fatx.raw of=/dev/hda seek=1 bs=512kdd if=fatx.raw of=/dev/hda seek=1501 bs=512kdd if=fatx.raw of=/dev/hda seek=3001 bs=512kdd if=fatx.raw of=/dev/hda seek=4501 bs=512kdd if=fatx.raw of=/dev/hda seek=5501 bs=512kFinally, run fdisk /dev/hda and then hit o followed by Enter to create a new DOS partition table, followed by w and Enter to write it. Proceed to run xboxhd again and select 1 to rebuild the entire drive. It should give the [OK] and walk you through the rest of the process! Hooray!No muss, no fuss, no dumping of the eeprom that you should've done (I should have done :D ) in the first place, no more money to spend unlocking the #$*%ing drive.XBMC here I come!
Moving Twice, Being Busy, Failing Over A Hard Drive 15 Jul 2010 12:26 AM (14 years ago)
It seems that I haven't posted in ... well, way too long. I do have excuses. I've had my share of fun and projects, but my summer started with a 3 week choir tour, before which I was moving the first time from campus back home. I did buy an HP netbook, which I promptply formatted and installed Archlinux (http://www.archlinux.org) alongside an nLited version of XP. I think Windows 7 is going to keep sucking until it's first service pack comes out.Fast forward past some mostly boring stuff, and we get to where I am now, moving again with my family into a new house. It's a pretty neat old house, and I have plans to setup my network equipment, and headless machines down in the basement - after I run a few hundred feet of cat5 and build a shelf.Other than that, I recently setup an Untangle (http://www.untangle.com/) gateway between my cable modem and my router - though it can act as a router, I still need to purchase a switch...but this distro is better than manually configuring my favorite distro, or using smoothwall (which is an old piece of crap IMHO). Props to Hak5, where I heard first about Untangle.Finally, the best part is that I bought a SATA II controller with 4 ports that supports port multipliers and hardware RAID. I have no reason to use RAID yet, but I did need the controller to be able to use the two new 1TB Hitachi Deskstar drives I got for $69 each from Newegg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145287) (looks like they've gone up $10 since then). I have to say they are super fast and super cool (versus my failing seagate drive). The seagate drive is the reason for the purchase, as I don't want to lose my ~490gb of precious files that are important to me. Luckily, I'm rsync-ing them all over right now, so far no hiccups (which is weird, as this seagate drive is 3 years old and has seen better days).If any of my text is misspelled or incoherant, note that I've been up for about 18 hours at this point, as I'm trying to get back on a decent sleeping schedule (read: normal).Anyway, thanks for reading. I promise I won't take 5-6 months between now and the next post!
KDE3 and QT3 Fixes for Firefox Using gtk-qt-engine 11 Jan 2010 12:50 PM (15 years ago)
Well, gtk-qt-engine isn't supporting KDE3 in new versions, and most people have forgotten KDE3 and moved on to the piece of crap KDE4. I use KDE3/QT3, and like gtk-qt-engine. I had a few issues with the look of firefox under it, though.1. The biggest was that radio buttons and checkboxes got whited out whenever I'd click them and they'd be active.2. The scrollbar's leftmost line didn't render properly, and only drew down the length of the slider..3. The bottom statusbar was sectionized and thus ugly.I've written a userscript/userstyle (http://userstyles.org/styles/24068) that fixes all of these. I suggest using the firefox extension stylish (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108) to use my userscript, but it should work just fine with greasemonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748) as well.Let me know how it works for you!
Keep Our Web Free: Stop Rick Boucher's Attack On Internet Ads 30 Nov 2009 12:31 PM (15 years ago)
Without ads, this site, as well as others like Digg, Facebook, Google, various blogs, and the ever popular cheezburger sites like LOLCats would die.The bill Rick Boucher is attempting to pass would make it nearly impossible to advertise on websites by making people agree to an agreement before they are advertised to. They don't have to do this with radio, print, or television ads, so why should we have to do it online?Hindering this would kill the internet as we know it. Please read up on the issue, and sign the petition.Link here:http://keepourwebfree.org/ (http://keepourwebfree.org/)
Recent Goings On - Magazine Articles, Linux, SEO, and School 11 Nov 2009 11:59 AM (15 years ago)
Well, I was unkowingly featured in Linux Format (http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/) issue 124 in a way, as they mentioned my apt-fast script in the article Make Linux Faster, Lighter, and More Powerful (http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/make-linux-faster-lighter-and-more-powerful-641317?artc_pg=6) (linked to page 6 of the article where apt-fast (http://www.mattparnell.com/projects/apt-fast-and-axel-roughly-26x-faster-apt-get-installations-and-upgrades.html)is mentioned). I love the fact that my involvement in the Linux community has been chronicled yet again, as it was back when I was maintaining deb packages for the Ubuntu version of the Zen Kernel (http://www.mattparnell.com/zen/press/zen-article.jpg).
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FREE McDonald's 2009 Monopoly Codes 11 Oct 2009 6:49 AM (15 years ago)
I just discovered 3 free codes. One requires facebook. All of this is sourced from this blog (http://sweetiessweeps.com/2009/10/2009-monopoly-game-at-mcdonalds-free.html). It has other good info about rare codes and pieces, too.How to Enter Online: Visit monopoly.promotions.com/monopoly09/front.do (http://monopoly.promotions.com/monopoly09/front.do) and setup an account. Then input your codes. Free McDonald's Monopoly Codes: I6L6V4N4T09 (From Rules) UONLYRICHER (From Facebook) ONLYPLYRSWN How to use the McDonald's Facebook code: 1. You must have a Facebook account. Sign up free or login. 2. Go here to access the McDonald's page on Facebook. 3. Click Go. 4. Click Allow. 5. Click Let's Play. 6. Click Publish or Okay (pick one). 7. Click Okay. 8. You will be taken to the McDonald's Monopoly page. 9. Click Let's Play. 10. Sign in. 11. Click to Roll. The FREE Code can be used only once per person and/or email address or mobile phone and will not count against your daily play limit of ten (10) Codes per day. FREE Codes can be used by multiple participants.
My Current Boot Time in Linux - 12s after Post 28 Sep 2009 3:04 PM (15 years ago)
Using 2.6.31-zen2 with the BTRFS filesystem, as well as running without an initrd and having all of my modules compiled in with a kernel size of 630kb uncompressed, I can say my machine is good in latency, speed, and efficiency...It's an HP DV9205US, and if you'd like to see my .config sometime (it works on many different HP laptops, though you may have to tweak it or use different drivers), and produces a beauty of a kernel.Here's my bootchart:
In Honor of the Current WootOff: Bag of Crap Alarm Version 0.02 23 Sep 2009 1:58 AM (15 years ago)
WOOTOFF!Ever since woot changed their design, my script has been broken. Since we have a wootoff going on now, I've refined and updated it so that once more it works.I've removed a feature in the public version that runs your browser of choice with the buy now link in order to quash the competition, and so that you can learn a little bit if you desire this feature...add it yourself! It's just one line of code.To use this, you need a UNIX style shellscript interpreter, sed, grep, curl, and play, though you could use any equivalent program for these to mod the script to work on other OS'es than Mac and Linux.Download by clicking here (http://www.mattparnell.com/down/woot_alarm_bash_script.tar.gz), and see the below for the code, should you want to look it over.#!/bin/bash#Wootwatch Alarm v0.02#Written by Matt Parnell/ilikenwf http://www.mattparnell.com (http://www.mattparnell.com)#This is totally free, take it and mod it however you wish, under the GNU GPLv3.#This script goes every 3 sec to woot and checks for a bag of crap. If found, it sounds an alarm.clear i=0r=0while [ $i -lt 1 ] do r=`expr $r + 1` WOOT=`curl -s -f http://www.woot.com` (http://www.woot.com`) ITEM=`echo $WOOT | /bin/sed 's/.*<h2 class= fn [^>]*>\([^>]*\)<\/h2>.*/\1/'` BUY=`echo $WOOT | grep -o WantOne.aspx?id=.[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*` echo if echo $ITEM | grep Random\ Crap ; then play -q alarm.mp3 echo echo BOC FOUND after $r runs. i=1 exit else AVAIL=`echo $WOOT | grep -o width:[[:alnum:]]*\%'>< | grep -o [[:alnum:]]*\% ` echo Current item: echo $ITEM echo echo Price: $`echo $WOOT | /bin/sed 's/.*<span class= amount [^>]*>\([^>]*\)<\/span>.*/\1/'` if echo $AVAIL |grep [[:alnum:]] > /dev/null; then echo Available:...
PSPP: An Opensource Clone of SPSS 15 Sep 2009 1:23 PM (15 years ago)
SPSS is way too expensive for a student in Intro to Statistics (me). Most of the class remains a confusion to me despite my previous successes in math classes. Furthermore, I really don't want to have to use the public computer labs here on campus with the dirty keyboards and mice, as well as the small screen resolution, and of course, Windows (nobody in their right mind really wants to use Windows). In an effort to prevent having to take my work to the lab, I went seeking a solution. I could have illegally cracked the SPSS demo, but I really don't like to do such things, and don't encourage it...
Wow, SEO Is Time Intensive Sometimes 5 Sep 2009 11:42 AM (15 years ago)
I've been working on a large array of projects lately, and all seem to take up time. I'm back in school, but that really doesn't hinder me that much except for the time I spend in class...furthermore, I make good use of the 30 Megabit Down / 7 Megabit up internet connection.Wordpress updates and plugin updates were first on the docket. That took plenty of time across my sites, and then I proceeded to play with some new plugins like CosHTMLCache (which broke RSS on a couple of the sites so I reverted to WP-Super-Cache), and I also have started using twitterposter to promote my posts, which has made a good increase in traffic and AdSense clicks.After that I have just been tinkering and considering whether I should put up more sites, or try to start working on my all in one blackhat SEO command center in an effort to automate as much as I can from site creation, to promotion, to maintenance and tracking, as well as ad placement and management (probably integrate OpenX in some way for that one....).All in all, I feel I'm on the upswing, though I still stink at getting many CPA conversions...I just don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I'd say the techniques I hear of are often so old that they are saturated or dead, so I guess I need to find a place that doesn't have a bunch of whining n00bs, and enough activity to actually warrant me joining and discussing techniques that work.In the end, it's all more of a playground than anything...I still have tons of unused domains to do something with...I'll never run out of things to do.
Pinecone Research Working Signup Link 19 Aug 2009 6:21 PM (15 years ago)
I know people who do this, and it is legitimate and pays fast.What you do is fill out surveys, and get paid $3 ( or $5?) per survey you do for market research. The great thing is, you just keep doing them, and keep getting paid. They payout via paypal and checks.Sign up here, and hope you get accepted! (http://link2there.com/00)Good luck!
Senior in College Now 2 Aug 2009 2:06 PM (15 years ago)
As I prepare to go back to school, I can only wonder what's next and hope that God reveals His divine plan for my life...I am ready to go back, things get boring the 3rd or 4th month of summer with no job, little chance of getting a job, and being in front of my laptop the majority of the time, attempting to make more money though my websites and various SEO related ventures.Alas, the economy is making advertisers pay less, which stinks...I still get some coin though, people are always willing to buy stuff, whether they need it or not.I hope I can not only get a sustainable and scalable SEO business going, but I also want to automate it so that I can have time for other things, but those other things I have yet to find or figure out yet...though I would like to find a girlfriend...and be more social.I'm alive and I guess I should post some hacker-ish or SEO related article here sometime...I will...
Digsby - A New IM/Email/Social Network Client 26 Jun 2009 5:58 PM (15 years ago)
Digsby is a neat little app I just stumbled across, and it integrates many cool features, which includes all of the usual IM networks, email, and social networking sites. What sets it apart is that it is multi platform, running on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. I may have just found something better than pidgin, eh?Give it a try and post here what you think in the comments section, I want to hear what you think about it. I personally am attracted by the features and the multi-platform support...click the image below to go and download Digsby.Give Digsby a Try - Download it Here (http://even-answers.com/digsby)
Timless Words That Speak A Great Deal 1 Jun 2009 3:47 PM (15 years ago)
The Declaration of IndependenceAlas, we are far from independent as citizens anymore.When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such...
I Like Guns, And Should Be Able to Own and Carry Anywhere I Wish 23 May 2009 3:15 PM (15 years ago)
When the government stops fearing the people, something has gone wrong. I forget who said something to that effect...was it John Adams? Anyways, the Federal Government always misreads the Second Amendment. It has no if , and , or but anywhere within it that allows for restrictions that keep us from carrying openly or concealed in public, or from owning fully automatic weapons all without license or permit, Federally, at least. Yes, the states are (supposedly) delegated (well, not so much anymore) any other powers to regulate not mentioned in the US Constitution. Even so, We The People own the right to be able to defend ourselves without a license to carry concealed or not within our Nation, our states, our districts, our counties, our cities, our neighborhoods, and our homes. Why should we have to be on a government list (state or federal) if we want to own or carry a particular weapon? I see this as preparation by the elites that rule the country and corporate world taking note of possible usurpers as a precaution against any people who may try to rise up as implied by the second amendment, in the event the government oppresses the people. It seems this oppression will eventually come. Let them try to take away our guns, our rights, our possessions, our wealth, and our lives. I for one won't stand for it. There do need to be exceptions of course, for courtrooms, schools, and other such cases, and for mentally ill and felons, as well as age, but our rights are being trampled on. the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed Pretty freaking clear.
McRoll'd 17 Apr 2009 9:58 AM (15 years ago)
This has to be a combination of the most scary, but yet cool and captivating things I've seen in a while.
Still Chugging Along! 30 Mar 2009 2:31 AM (16 years ago)
Despite the lack of new projects and posts, I'm still here, and still plan on doing fun posts in the future, I just have been weighted down lately with the next 4 weeks being the last weeks of this semester...class projects, finals, and more all are contributing to the lack of anything knowledgeable or fun being posted lately.Until I come back, look at failblog (http://www.failblog.org) daily...it's hilarious.
New Internet Money Method 19 Feb 2009 9:55 AM (16 years ago)
I talk about SEO, Internet Marketing, and other such tactics around here all the time, but purposely never offer all the pieces to the plan so that you develop strategies and techniques on your own for better success. If you'd rather just have a system that's set out for you that works, I suggest the Google Money Tree (http://linktohere.com//26). They'll tell you all about it before you actually buy it, but you have to request the info. Upon request, you'll get a nice kit that tells you everything you need to know about making big bank off of Google.This setup will help you go from poor to rich with a lot less effort than climbing up the corporate ladder or flipping burgers.Click here to give it a try. (http://linktohere.com//26)
4 Great Alternatives To Google 7 Jan 2009 6:42 AM (16 years ago)
Google is the generally accepted king of the search engines, followed by Yahoo and MSN. Other smaller engines exist, which aren't quite as useful, but some new Ajax-y alternatives (excluding Scroogle) exist. This article attempts to showcase some of the cooler and more useful engines.Scroogle (http://scroogle.org) isn't an ajax based engine, but I feel it deserves an honorable mention. Scroogle is a scraper that displays Google results to you, as a service to keep you anonymous. There is even an https feature for added security.Searchme (http://www.searchme.com) is a nice ajax engine which shows screenshots of the results, and they rotate as you drag a slider bar. It offers images, video, music, and shopping results with the shuffled results. It is really good looking, and works very well.Gigablast (http://www.gigablast.com/) is a powerful new search engine that does real time indexing. I think that means that it indexes the sites that refer visitors to it. That said, it currently has 4,822,055,863 pages indexed. Another one to try if you're sick of Google. RedZee (http://redzee.com), the coolest of these engines has a really great logo. It's animated and flashy. Outside of that, it displays the results in a carousel, with snapshots of the pages to be viewed, and it has an easy link back to the results that is displayed at the top of the pages discretely in the corner. The result pages look somewhat like a ferris wheel, and in general, this search, like Searchme is very cool functionally.
Good Things Ahead 4 Jan 2009 6:14 PM (16 years ago)
Another year, another semester of college class, and I have to do my taxes for the first or second time. That does not mean I won't have plenty of downtime for doing geeky things, including updating this site. I have several things planned for the future to write about, and hope that they will be useful to my readers. Here is a list of what you can expect of me in the coming weeks:A Guide to Linux on HP Laptops (This will be based on my experiences with my dv9205us, and includes the Zen Kernel).Several SEO Related Posts, including ethics, and content scrapingHopefully at least one joint article with Ask The Admin.com, and perhaps one with I-Hacked.comRandom postings that I may from time to time add about my life (usually ranting about something)Many link additions, as I plan to update my link collection here on the site, and add moreI have a new Samsung Delve. As an Alltel user, I can guarantee that I will be writing on my hack attempts to customize this phone.Tales of my staying up for marathon amounts of hours...like 36 or more hours (probably not, too boring...)I can't think of much more to mention right now, although there should be much more. I will post many new things in the days ahead, not just for this semester, but also for the entire new year.Until we meet again, why not torrent jPod (http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=jpod), and if you find it geeky and fun enough, find a copy of the book by the same name. Both are great, and if you are a true geek, I suspect you will thouroughly enjoy them.