Category Archives: Computing

This category predominantly contains stuff about my computing classes, but I might post general stuff in here about computing from time to time.

Geeking it up together

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Shane

After working on Summer09 all day (that’s its working title), I’ve decided to take a break now that the hours can now be called “small”. I was Vimeo stumbling, happy that I have high speed internet access to watching videos … Continue reading →

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Access your uni drive from anywhere

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Shane

This is mostly for DMU students, but this might actually turn into a WinSCP tutorial. Turns out some people didn’t know they have access to their H drive from outside of the lab, so lemme explain how. Your H drive … Continue reading →

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I'd RTFM if I could find it

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Shane

Tonight’s adventure is going to be understanding how to encrypt stuff using my public key, and then how to unencrypt it. Here’s my RSA public key: PuTTY-User-Key-File-2: ssh-rsa Encryption: aes256-cbc Comment: My first key Public-Lines: 4 AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIBv67wL6ms9S2VKS7FzAKzkU7ikhcbA/W8G7mas OLT50qFCyPdoh1hlK18Vg/3okbhVybqQmXFKT6jH6+gzRc6yZvUw7rqjAk+j8BMR nAOVJSr2+YXeJk3OHbcdao83mOKDN/QfV2IsoAYdbEyVtCLRII47tflA/kKDdflH OfZQbw== … Continue reading →

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Today has been productive

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Shane

Don’t be fooled into believe that I love to tell you all what I’m doing every second of the day, I’m actually only here because World Of Warcraft is doing for maintenance. Why do they take off every realm at … Continue reading →

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Why noone gets any work done on these computers

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Shane

I’m using a college computer, since Niimo is busy with his being fixed and all. These computers are terrible. Really, they’re horrible. I’m having to adjust to using a mouse again. Once you’ve had the precision of using a tracer … Continue reading →

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Examiners should stay away from HTML, or get someone who knows it.

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Shane

Question 7 is disgusting. In fact, take a few moments to read through the question paper and point out a lot of the errors. But it’s the badly form HTML that bothers me most. Why does the exam board want … Continue reading →

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Exams I'm taking

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Shane

As a token of how unorganised I am, I wanted to make a post saying what exams I’m taking. May In May, I should be (at least, I think I am) retaking computing, unit 2 (CPT2) and law, unit 2 … Continue reading →

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