Published on November 22, 2008
in Personal.
I was talking with my girlfriend recently, and I told her that her “RA Class” (RA is short for resident assistant, someone who lives on campus to assist other residents) is a “Boom Boom” class. She is from Niceville and had never heard of the term. I knew it as a slang term for a low level class that required no effort, taken simply for credit.
In an effort to locate some sort of source for my definition besides anecdotes of the people I knew, I was only able to find other personal references (myspace, facebook) coincidentally from people in Tampa. Turns out that this term appears to originate specifically from Tampa!
Here is my evidence:
- Urban Dictionary Claiming this fact
- Google Results only turning up myspace pages in Tampa and Arizona?
- More Google on forum hits, again only Tampa and Arizona specific things
- Nothing on Wikipedia
- That is all I have. Its mostly anecdotal.
Don’t you just love it when co-workers communicate with you in the most interesting ways???
Sorry it is so small. Click on it!
You may remember my old laptop from such posts as this.
Well it broke, so I bought another one!
It even has the original stickers. But.. Its slower than I remember. So I’m trying out different Ubuntu versions to see what boots the fastest. Here are my methodology and results.
Methodology:
The first number is the ammount of seconds from the 0 in the grub countdown till the X in the initial X-server. The second number is the seconds till the firefox screen pops up after I click it while its booting (with auto login enabled.) The reason for this is to account for the total time till my computer is usable. (internet) This is with no performace tweaks, and keeping the default settings. (except enabling auto-login)
| Version |
Time Till X |
Time till Firefox |
| Ubuntu 8.10 |
1:04 |
2:57 |
| Ubuntu 8.04 |
1:12 |
2:53 |
| Ubuntu 7.10 |
1:15 |
2:46 |
| Xubuntu 8.10 |
1:09 |
2:29 |
| Xubuntu 8.04 |
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| Xubuntu 7.10 |
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Yea so I got tired after all those versions. Maybe I’ll come back. So far though I like xfce (I use it on my eeepc (which has numbers of 1:39, 2:05 on xubuntu 8.04….)
You may not know, but I used to work for Wikipedia! (here if you don’t believe me)
You also may not know that all Wikimedia Foundation projects (like Wikipedia) run off of a opensource piece of software called Mediawiki.
The software is the bomb, and I’ve had my own for a number of years to keep track of my own project documentation (like a notebook.) But I’ve never made it public. Well….
My good friend Pete has his public, so I’ve decied to make mine public too, for the sake of competition of course 
Mine is more personal, for my own projects, his more more like a Linux/General knowledgebase.
Click on the picture to go there.
Published on November 14, 2008
in linux and sago.
Most vpns… in fact… all of them, are based on a client/server model. This means that all vpn clients call home to one vpn server and connect. All traffic goes through that vpn server and then gets passed on to its original destination. But what if you could have the benefits of VPN, but be able to communicate directly to other VPN peers, so without the latency and bandwidth limitations?
That is what n2n is. The supernodes are NOT servers. They merely function as a way to punch holes in firewalls. Once the firewalls are open, the edge servers (think of them as clients) can talk directly with other edge clients. Cool!
I’ve tried this, and so far the only draw back is the speed, it just doesn’t seem to be as fast as you would think it would be. I can’t find any other people complaining about it, but I’ll look into it. But so far this is the simplest vpn I’ve ever setup. Its a single command!
