I finally got around to implementing the new design. I thought everything was going smoothly until I noticed that the php parser was not (and is not) recognizing the separation of news updates. Now, it's time for the famous troubleshooting process (oh you know, that meticulous dissecting of code for hours only to discover that the problem is a typo or simple logical error that you could have fixed in three seconds). I have to figure out whether t…

In a quest for content before I leave for 3 weeks. I fixed the staff.php (the staff links now work) It still needs some esthetic changes (hint hint I just wish someone could help me with that.... hint hint) and real staff pics and bios, but the php is finished (our good friend koudelda wrote it on a whim one day and never finished it). Well I'm off to bed, but I plan to keep things rolling until I leave on Monday.
-Francis

Peter died... Twice... Well after more then 2 weeks of "error 404, not found" roborooter.com is back. Most of the stuff from peter is transfered over and I think we are now accessable from everywhere. (yippy!) I also made this server by my self 100% which I'm also proud of. It consists of:
2 Celeron 450s
64mbs of ram (not too much but, well.. $)
a 4 gig hd (not too much but...)
a 60 gig drive ( =D its for backups, realy!) and some other stuff... …

I've rediscovered DslReports and made an account. I was playing around and ran a line test on my connection. I found the dissipointing results here. I will definatly be changing the location of this server.
Other news I got my cast removed today. The arm is still fractured though... It will be a few more weeks untill the bone is healed and then a few more untill my mussles return. (It's scary my left arm looks like its not my own.)
-Francis

This just in from the MOTD:
TODO:
get RC5 or seti or something (load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00)
figure out why some machines cant acces us from the web
get some money
move peter to a better connection (working on it, problay this summer)
get peter as a print server
remember that the morning does not start at 2pm

Looks like things will happen "Soon".
-Rooney

For everyone who's about to step into two weeks of finals, regents and last minute projects; good luck and may your wits be with you.
May summer vacation come soon.
-Francis

Well, Francis wasn't kidding about being famous. Sorta. Well, thats him, alright. (The kid, you idiot!) This pic came from here, so take a look at the other shots. If Francis ever gets off his @$$ (even though he is very busy with studying for finals) and finishes the staff pictures I made, that Staff link over there will actually go somewhere. Anyway, its friday, and I want to go crash at my friend's place, so the actual staff bios will have to …

As a public service, I'm posting the final exam schedule for tech. By the way, tech's calendar says report cards go out on the 27th, so needless to say, final excuses are due by then.

Monday 11th
1 8:25- 8:42 class
2 8:46- 9:29 class
3 9:33-10:16 class
4 10:20-11:03 class
5 11:07-11:50 class
6 11:54-12:37 class
7 12:41- 1:41 EXAM
8 1:45- 2:45 EXAM

Tuesday 12th
2 8:46- 9:29 class
3 9:33-10:16 class
4 10:20-11:20 EXAM
5 11:24-12:24 EXAM
6 12:28- 1:…

Tomorow is Brooklyn Day. No school so now I finaly have time for some work on some hardware upgrades and fixes. You would be suprised how far people can let their computers go. So I'm going to format my mothers old windows 95 machine and upgrade it to 98 or ME (not sure wich would work better for her). I also want to setup a networkable modem for my house because of our lack of broadband. And the availability of phonelines. I'm also getting even …

This is my first update, so I suppose I should introduce myself. I am the designer for roborooter and I've put up a test page with the design I'm currently working on, which may become the new design. Be sure to take a look at the new black version of the design too.

(Update on March 29, 2002: Things sure have changed... it's almost difficult to believe how much. Anyway, I'm glad that I didn't say "Please allow me to introduce myself..." way back…

Francis starts posting news again. I'm not so sure about that writing section, buddy... Anyway, more DSL follies: our DSL bridge, the one they sent us, was sitting there with the blinken lights saying it was "training the line", and that this could take "several minutes". A day and a half is more than that, right? So Focal sends some poor guy from Pennsylvania who was here to help with the support phones over to run some tests. He shows up, and m…

I was wandering around the net and found some pictures from the Trinity Robotics competition. One of these pictures Includes me writing something down when I was talking with Scott Savage. (nice guy, he invented the very handy OOpic controller) Its the first picture on the "Contest Day" picturs page at trinity. (here) Well I think I've given our content editor enough text to check over for now. (I better quit before he starts complaining. =b )
-F…

I Just finished the SAT2s yesterday. I ended up taking 3 of them so I could get them over with now instead of taking them later. The tests were fairly easy. Even though I ran out of time on the writing test I still think I did fairly well. The other two tests I tok were Math 1C and Physics. The Math had some problems that were completely foreign to me, but not many so I think I did well there as well. The Physics was a joke. I started thinking t…

I figured that it was time to link this whiteboard thing that Francis got somewhere. Needs Java. Also, while poking around in /www, I found that it appears we will have a web design site here at some point. So far it looks very clean and well made, so as soon as I talk to the creator, I'll link it up here. Focal says my DSL should be working soon, so when it finally is I can work on this from home. Friday... (And since this is the 11th news item,…

Just a short message from the (ha ha) Content Director, here... If there were actual people seeing this it might matter, but whatever. Anyway, I cleaned up some of the older news on this page (failure to follow the conventions of standard written english, mostly) and dropped a bit of despair and cynicism off for you. Francis is very proud that his downloads page is now up. I'm the one who wrote those descriptions, so they will remain sketchy unti…