The past several days I’ve been having severe trouble with my cell phone at my new place in Bartlesville. It’s probably been this way the entire time, I just haven’t used my phone enough to notice it until a few days ago. AT&T will flat out not keep a connection longer than 10 minutes. What […]
Monthly Archive for May, 2008
Starting my Internship
Posted in Personal on May 27th, 2008
Well, I’ve been at it a week now interning for ConocoPhillips in Bartlesville, OK. So far it’s been a very positive experience. I’m working in the “Commercial Unix Services” group—it’s my understanding that we’ll be working on security and maintenance scripts for the hundreds of servers they have here. I hope I can get up […]
Back From Vacation
Posted in Personal on May 17th, 2008
One thing I don’t understand about some hotels is that they feel they must charge for internet access, even though it costs more to implement the pay services than to just offer it for free. From an old (2003) article about businesses and wifi access: Now that competitors have started to offer free wired Internet […]
Thoughts on Linux/Ubuntu
Posted in On the Net, Personal, Tech, Uncategorized on May 7th, 2008
With the release of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron a week or two ago, I thought I’d try it out. I’ve been casually playing around with Linux for quite some time. I think the first version I installed was Mandrake Linux 8.0, back in 2001. Anyways, I like to see what’s new and how much Linux […]