UNI is looking to hire an Assistant Systems Administrator:
NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field plus at least one year of system administration experience in a multi-user environment required. Student experience will be considered.
I installed the Google Web Accelerator this morning, and it says it has saved me 7.7 minutes of time already today. Too bad it only works on my Windows machines, and won't save me time on my Macs...
As you may have noticed on the right, I’m working my way through Java Programming for Absolute Beginners, which is kind of fun so far. I haven’t done any non-web programming since about 1994, so my skills are rusty in the extreme. To top it off, I never worked with any Object-Oriented languages, so this ought to be interesting. So far, the book has my interest, as you actually learn the language by writing a series of simple computer games, and most of my difficulties have been typos in my own code. Their Mac instructions aren’t entirely accurate though, I think they may be for Mac OS 9, but it’s really not clear. I’ve just used the UNIX instructions, and haven’t had any significant problems so far.
I’ve switched my RSS/Atom feeds over to using FeedBurner, just to try it out. It’ll let me actually get an idea of how many people are subscribed to my feed, as well as offer some cool features when I get around to making a Flickr account soon.
I was feeling bored while I installed a server today, so I took the opportunity to calculate the various values of the new TiVo Rewards structure. You get 5,000 points for referring someone to TiVo, but the actual “value” you get from that referral depends greatly on what you spend your points on. Unless noted otherwise, all prices came from Amazon.com:
| Item | Points | Price | $/100 Points | $/Referral |
| 20GB iPod | 25000 | $299.99 | $1.20 | $60.00 |
| Bose QuietComfort 2 (Crutchfield) | 25000 | $299.00 | $1.20 | $59.80 |
| Creative Zen 20GB Portable Media Center | 45000 | $471.99 | $1.05 | $52.44 |
| Nikon Coolpix 5200 | 35000 | $349.99 | $1.00 | $50.00 |
| 140 hour tivo - Rebate | 25000 | $229.99 | $0.92 | $46.00 |
| Humax DRT800 - Rebate | 35000 | $319.99 | $0.91 | $45.71 |
| iPod Mini 4GB | 20000 | $179.99 | $0.90 | $45.00 |
| Colored TiVo remote (TiVo.com) | 4000 | $34.99 | $0.87 | $43.74 |
| Pro Installation (TiVo.com) | 15000 | $129.99 | $0.87 | $43.33 |
| Delphi MyFi | 35000 | $299.99 | $0.86 | $42.86 |
| Phonex PX-441 | 7000 | $49.99 | $0.71 | $35.71 |
| iPod Shuffle 512 | 15000 | $99.99 | $0.67 | $33.33 |
| DWL-122 (Buy.com) | 7500 | $41.76 | $0.56 | $27.84 |
| 40 Hour TiVo - Rebate | 20000 | $79.94 | $0.40 | $19.99 |
| Linksys USB200M | 7500 | $24.99 | $0.33 | $16.66 |
