Exam Results

Posted on June 28th, 2006 in News by TheMysteriousX
08101 Programming I 05/06S1 20 77 P
08120 Programming 2 05/06S2 20 74 P
08119 Information Technology and Professional Skills 05/06 20 71 P
08123 Computer Systems 05/06S1 20 65 P
08112 Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction 05/06S2 20 63 P
08125 Quantitative Methods for Computing 05/06 20 57 P
Semester 1 Credits 40
Semester 2 Credits 40
Other Credits 40
Total Registered Credits 120
Sessional Weighted Average 67.833
Total Credits Passed 120

In short, despite the fact I expected to fail maths and have to resit it, I have passed everything, and have ended up 3% short of a 1st.

Not a bad result, especially given my past history with maths.

On my course, the first year is not counted, only the second, third, and MSc years (if I get that far).

This bodes well for the rest of the course :)   Especially as I never have to do anything maths related again :)

Posted on June 15th, 2006 in Jokes by TheMysteriousX

Source: B3ta.com

Cat! Tray! Snow! Racing!

Posted on June 12th, 2006 in Games by TheMysteriousX

http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-173.html

Best Game Ever.

Requires Java, Dialup unfriendly.

Deskfans, Optical Illusions, Windows Vista, WebOS’s, and Windows Vista

Posted on June 8th, 2006 in News by TheMysteriousX
Still, the water cooling gear arrives tomorrow, so the desk fan is a temporary measure.
You’ll notice two new links in the blogroll too, though you won’t find them praticularly exciting unless you play Final Fantasy XI. Which you all should. If anyone sees the error of their ways, send me an email once you’ve signed up, and I’ll grab you a passkey for the server that I’m on.
For anyone that feels brave, the Microsoft Windows Vista beta has gone public. Signup here.
To save you downloading hours of stuff, I can burn you a copy of my disks (offer available to people who know me in real life).
Standard disclaimer applies, this is a beta grade operating system and will overwrite any existing operating systems on the hard disk (Read: uninstall Windows XP) unless you have multiple paritions available. It may also crash, burn, fail, kill kittens, and eat babies. The last 2 are unproven.
On a similar note, I have installed a new toy on here, available at http://webos.omega.org.uk
It’s something called a WebOS. It tries to be a traditional operating system, with a key difference. It operates using a web browser, and so is available from anywhere.
If you want to have a play with it (go crazy, it’s impossible to do any damage (nothing that I can’t fix in 15 seconds flat anyway)) then the user account is “guest” and the password is “guestuser”.
In the future, I will write a script enabling people to create their own accounts.

Did you miss me?

Posted on June 5th, 2006 in News by TheMysteriousX

I bet you didn’t.

The site was unavailable for approximatly 10 minutes while I changed webhosting providers.
I was mildly impressed with the speed at which I achieved this.

The new provider, dreamhost, have a much better uptime record, and offer me shell access (something very useful not a lot of companies provide).

The only snafu came from the forums, because I typed a 5 instead of a 4 and stuff broke. All is now fixed, apart from images.omega.org.uk which will be fixed right now.

EDIT:  As of now, images are back up.

I’m not sure whether to laugh, or despair…

Posted on June 2nd, 2006 in General by TheMysteriousX

Judge for yourselves:

Captain Copyright

Also, while I have your attention, the Hull uni mail server has been silently rejecting all emails sent to some of my addresses (everything but my hotmail account) so if you have emailed me in the last month, then chances are I have not recieved your message.