I’m counting the days, hours, and minutes until I experience complete math burnout.
Semester load:
Math 176
Math 170
Math 144
EE244 (Digital Logic)
At least I have one thing that’s remotely relevant (and pretty damn fun too.)
And while you’re all placing your bets and waiting for me to completely burn out and run naked through the halls covered in chocolate syrup and shaving cream (GOTCHA! Try and pry THAT image out of your head!!!) you should listen to some Zebrahead. It’s good for you.
Shoulda known. I got many replies to this question, unfortunately, they were all the same: We violate RFC 931 for your protection.
Text:
“The residence halls network connection is behind a firewall, for your security, and will not allow active FTP connection. Passive mode is the way you will need to connect.”
Thanks, fuckers, but nobody ever bothered to consider that active-mode FTP has a very specific purpose - it’s exceedingly handy for connecting to FTP’s that exist behind NAT firewalls - like the ones owned by two of my friends. Thanks, assholes, I get no video from home now. Dammit. As if I didn’t miss home enough, now I can’t connect to it thanks to Resnet. God damn I hate this place.
In short, you can have Internet access, but it’s sanitized for your protection. Next step: Filtering Proxy. Bet me money. If it says ‘boobies,’ it’s ‘insecure.’ (That’ll end my semi-traitorous reading of fark.com.)
So, I just got my reply after dancing around the “Hey, we only support the campus network, not the residence halls!” Seems the University of Idaho doesn’t support RFC 959, even though it’s about 18 years old. Yes, folks, no active FTP on the University of Idaho campus. So to add insult to injury, now they’ve cut the FTP sites I can connect to down to the bare minimum. Thanks guys, you’ve managed to basically turn learning *off* here. Assholes.
Let’s list a few others, shall we?
- No P2P. I can understand this one if they said “No P2P between 0600 and 2200.” But considering they like to go on and on about how I’m paying for this useless piece of shit connection I’ve got, how about letting me use at least a tiny bit of it? How about at least 5K/S at night?
- Shit connections in the dorms. My connection plugs directly into a 10MB HUB. Interesting security feature (that is, the ability to sit in promiscuous mode and watch all your local net traffic.) This will be fixed in the Living Learning Center, as I understand, but at present several hundred students have no port-level security.
- And the interesting last straw: No inter-campus connections are allowed. Not even ICQ. So if I want to send my friend in another building a file, I have to upload it to an external ftp server or just sneakernet the fucking thing over there. Great security guys - make us route all of our data through an outside source. Yeah, that’ll increase our security.
In summary: if you work for ITS on any decision-making level: FUCK YOU, TWICE, YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF FLAMING MONKEY SHIT.
Hey, what do YOU do when you catch your wacky friend freaking the fuck out on video?
Well, I dub the Benny Hill theme into the video and post it for all to see. Have fun downloading.
