First snow of the year!  Yes, it snowed in Troy today, or last night, whenever.  At least there was snow on the ground when I woke up.

I found some pictures here, here, and here.  Cory and Dan made a small snowman in the quad, I'll post some pictures I took of it later.

Yay, getting up at 06:30 for IED field trip.  Man I love that course!  (grr)

Alright, finally got news that RPI will be getting a new ISP over Thanksgiving Break (November 28th).  The current egressing ISP is AppliedTheory, now ClearBlue technologies.  Their service turned to crap over the last month, and hopefully this will fix the constant 40% or so packet loss from campus.  This (screen shot) is what we've all had to deal with over the last couple weeks.  The ?'s indicate an ICMP echo request with no reply.

Not much news lately.  Apparently the lagginess of RPI's Internet is due to massive DDoS's aimed at the DNS servers.  Reminds me of what happened earlier in the week...

Oh, yeah, new OpenGL stuff is up here.

Hey, check this out.  It's a Microsoft utility that seems to query the system log of a local (or remote) NT4/2K/XP system to calculate uptime.  The funny thing is, it shows almost all previous reboots, boots, and crashes (like a UNIX lastlog).  However, it seems to require no authentication.  Try it out...hehe...  No, it doesn't work in wine, and it crashed when I tried to query a samba server.

So, news.  I just got confirmation yesterday that RPI will be installing some rate-limiting hardware/software to limit P2P network traffic.  This is apparently (rumored) to be directly related to the report of UCI doing something similar.  Ports (protocols?) that are involved in file sharing (KaZaa, etc..) will be severely rate-limited, and supposedly RESNET will only be able to use a maximum of 80% of the university's bandwidth.

I'm kinda happy about this, since I don't do much P2P sharing, and have seen the latencies to my off-campus ssh sessions go down the tubes ever since the freshmen came on board.  I'll be happy if...DotCIO does it right...

Sorry for the lack of posts.  I've been a little busy with circuits and IED lately.

I've posted my last two CompGraph homeworks, you can try them out here.  If you're on UNIX, just use the Makefile, on Win32, make sure VC++ is configured correctly for glut, then just compile.

Today I successfully established a routable IPv6 connecton to one of my machines within RPI's campus network.  This is a step in the right direction...