Tune in to mattmccullough.net/live today around 2:30 for the live broadcast. It will most likely suck, as all I have is my built in isight on my macbook pro, But it’s something if you are interested.
Entries categorized as ‘Web’
1/30 SGA Meeting, Live on Ustream
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 · 2 Comments
Categories: Montclair State University · Video · Web
Monday, December 3, 2007 · No Comments
So I have reverted into the illogical trend that is Microblogging. Here I have WordPress for public entries, Livejournal for private random entries. And now Twitter for public, even more random entries.
I should probably be thankful for my sanity that there aren’t more people to follow, but you should make one anyways.
Facebooking, and the new tier of communication
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 · 2 Comments
Email is dead. Admit it, when was the last time you said, “Hey, let me email you this cool video”. No, you just send it on facebook, or del.icio.us for the more geek inclined.
No, email is more or less a notification system now. To tell us when our Chinese food is getting delivered, or when someone wants to add us as a friend. Just as email was built on top of legacy protocols, facebook is built on top of email. And even still, there are applications built on top of facebook. Do you get this tier-ing concept now?
So, with this new communication standard established, why is it that people continue to invite strangers to random events and applications. The way I treat facebook, is that getting invited to an event on facebook is the equivalent to a phone call, or an IM. And yet people don’t take these things seriously like I do. Am I taking social netoworking too seriously, or is the rest of the community just behind on this one?
Significant Improvements with campus internet.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 · No Comments
We have not only begun campus upgrades of network utilities, But I have also optimized my TCP/IP settings with a piece of windows freeware called TCP optimizer. Below are the new results, and compare them with the results in my old post below. The difference is almost 100x!
Categories: Desktop · Montclair State University · Web
Network issues on campus
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 · No Comments
The claims that our campus’s networking hardware is near it’s end is starting to become visible. I’ve always had crappy internet when I lived in Bohn Hall. But this is getting out of hand.
The Thursday before spring break I was questing in World of Warcraft with Rhiannon, when all of a sudden I was disconnected from WoW. It was late so I didn’t think much of it, but I later learned that WoW was completely inaccessible from the MSU network. Yet I had no problem playing from home.
Now that I am back on campus, I tried to play again in Russ on Sunday night. I was able to play fine, but yesterday was a different story. I could login for a few moments, but every player and list wouldn’t load.
Sure the games are bad. I’ve heard issues about Asheron’s Call from my lab parter, to people calling the Helpdesk with issues in Star Wars Galaxy. But recently its begun to effect me at work.
Yesterday I had a call where the solution was to download a 20MB file from the Novell website. At 10 mins+ per download to 8 computers, you can imagine that it took up more time just waiting for the file to download than it should have.
Another call I had yesterday, I received an [all students] email from a client who’s computer I was working on. Upon closer look, I noticed the email was timestamped at 9am, and I received it at 4pm. (It’s a series of tubes!)
Here is how MSU’s Wireless Broadband Network clocks in with a test from Speedtest.net
Pathetic. Watching the download speed it didn’t even tick above the 256k mark, the Very first mark!
I know MSU finds itself in a financial table vice at the moment, but this is ridiculous. The MSU ISP should be considered a utility at this point, because it is vital to the operation of this campus. And speeds like this are just embarrassing and are hurting the university as a whole.
Categories: Montclair State University · Personal · Web
