ResNet is in charge of providing internet services to people in dorms. Everyone go connects a device to their network gets it registered, and then the device has a campus IP address that is exposed to the Internet, and then we get a hostname. Mine is a5taylor-res.resnet.ucsd.edu. Wireless printers can be registered to the network too, but if they are then anyone in the world can print to your wireless printer. For this reason, ResNet strongly recommends you use your USB cable to print to your wireless printer and that you disable the wireless feature. This does not work out well for me, because now only my roommate can print to his printer. The best solution would be to enable password protected file and printer sharing on the computer, and set security permissions on the printer to allow only authenticated users to print. File and printer sharing uses the SMB protocol, which uses port 445. Sadly, this incoming port is blocked by ResNet, so this option is out. The workaround is me!!!! I developed a website application that allows you enter a username and password and then to upload a document (.prn) and it will print the files that are uploaded to it. Can't host the website on port 80 because that port is also blocked. So when installed, the URL will look something like http://a5taylor-res.resnet.ucsd.edu:60080/AAWebPrinter/ . To use it, you have to install the driver for the remote printer. Try to print like normal, but choose Print To File before you hit the last OK button. Save the file and upload it to the website on the host computer with the printer and AAWebPrinter installed, and it will print! Soon roommates shall be able to share their printer with any of their friends by giving out a password, but only if they have a professional or ultimate version of Windows XP or later.
I am trying to remember the order of yesterday's events but it seems a bit convoluted. It doesn't seem like I was talking about things that happened two days ago, but I have evidence that this is not so. Anyways, I went to get a snack at Roger's Place where I can spend up my dining dollars. Bot a box of white cheddar Cheese-Its and the strawberry flavor of Hi-Chew, which is like Starbursts (this discovery is kudos to Steven). Found Jordon Marvasti as I walked out, and then my suitemates Mark Park, Kevin Park, Greg Kato and Vincent Nguyen, and then this guy Aiden Marshall from Muir College. We went to check out this event called UnOlympics, and some guy was passing out these big boxes of AMP orange energy juice. We think he just wanted to get out of there. So we put the boxes on Jordon's skateboard and stopped by some eating place on the way back to our suite. Then it was just party time for a little while. Tried to start a game of chess with Zack but half way through we were interrupted by ennui and I had to eat before the dining hall closed. Had 2 chicken legs for like $2 each! Suddenly, bedtime confronted me. It didn't work out so well because as soon as I crept into bed my sleepiness began to dissipate. Zack had no sleep place because Steven's friend showed up and they were like sooo going to play this one game and yeah. So we went to Andrei's room and skyped some guy in Pomona and basically did a lot of nothing. Then we returned to our slumbering. Why was I was having trouble sleeping? Well yes classes were to start soon!! Which wasn't very scary or anything. But maybe the party right outside my window had something to do with it. And then we had some visitors hanging out in my suite's common area. People are pretty nice here.
Okay like you wouldn't even know. So I got up for Chem 6A at 8 this morning. Learned NOTHING!!!! It was pretty boring. Class dismissed a few minutes early which was nice because I needed to get over to CSE 12. For pretty much the whole period I was looking up all the topics covered in the upcoming lectures and I knew everything. My patience wore so thin you wouldn't even know. So after class I talked to him - told him I got a 5 on the CSAB exam and heard I am exempt from the class with department approval - and he said he would like to interview me during his office hours. I took the offer up and met him in his office in the CSE building like 30 minutes later. I was IN AND OUT man. It was cool. I introduced him to my programming background - 5 on the AP, make websites with code for my dad's company, been programming since summer before 6th grade. He wanted to take a look at some of my code. I brought my laptop and while it was turning on he was trying to discern my skills in data structures. He brought up Linked Lists and how that would be something I should know. I made it clear that Linked Lists are the simplest of data structures and that I could create a Linked List structure right then. I opened p a notepad document and just banged out the code. Then he asked if I knew about generics - no problem, just banged out the implementation of generics... well he was sold. He said that I might learn a thing or two by taking the class but basically I'm awesome. Didn't strongly recommend that I skip it because it might be nice to take an easy class my first quarter at a university but I was free to go downstairs and get a petition thingy which I filled out and signed. Dr. Kube was the professor by the way. He seemed impressed and he was very nice about it. I am so happy!!! I will now be starting with CSE 20, and I will only have 3 classes this quarter (recommended). I am now basically starting at the Sophomore stage of my major. This warranted a blog entry, so I'm writing this at well it's 15:00 right now. Got to go buy a cable for my roommate and then at 15:45 run with Strides!!
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