WikiCollege.info is now up and running. Wiki College is designed to act as a universal study guide for college students. While many students use wikipedia to help study for their classes I thought that it might be useful to have as much information as possible available in one location. Eventually Wiki College should be able to go through classes chapter by chapter and effectively teach the subject, much like a textbook. While content is currently in short supply, content is being added quickly. The beauty of using a wiki as a platform for this type of site is that anyone can post questions, respond to others, and add content for everyone else to view and learn from.
College
website, Wiki College
After watching the latest episode of Diggnation I decided to try out what Glenn recommended: revitalizing old doughnuts into tasty treats. There’s really not a lot I can say that isn’t said on the new website I made… just for doughnuts. Learn how to save doughnuts that you might otherwise let go to waste: www.ToastedDoughnut.com
How To
Doughnut, food, website
I never knew how easy it was to host multiple websites on a single server. All you need is Apache2 and a text editor. Simply adding a couple of lines to a config file, making a new directory, and setting up your new domain name is all you have to do. Now that I know this I can host sites for my friends very efficiently. If you’re interested in the details of how to set something like this up for yourself, google is your friend 
Computers
apache, domain, hosting, website
What are the odds of the following: My friend and I doing major upgrades to my home network and then 30 minutes later Cox upgrading their systems to support higher speeds and killing my connection. The total downtime for my website amounts to 3 hours.
Seriously, this happened.
When I was frantically running around my house at 1am trying to get the website back online I eventually wound up disconnecting everything and connecting my laptop directly to the cable modem. I was able to connect. I thought that was odd and so I decided to run a speed test. The results: 30mbs download and 2.5 mbs upload. The download speed was almost as high as a DS3. That’s insane. After two hours of troubleshooting the internet connection once again cooperated with my LAN and business as usual resumed. (so much for getting my normal amount of sleep).
What I figured happened is that Cox rolled out updates to their infrastructure once again without so much as a warning email. This is the second time this has happened to me. The upgrades aren’t the issue, it’s the fact that they don’t tell anyone that irritates me. My connections speeds (after I burn out the ‘power boost’) is a very healthy 10mbs down and 2 mbs down (aka exactly what I am paying for).
I’m now going to call it a night and let my body rest so I can wake up sometime tomorrow (morning?).
This Site
bandwidth, cable, cox, internet, isp, website
