How many of you have downloaded a file ending in ‘.rar’ before? I’m sure by now, mostly all of you. The first time you downloaded it, you wondered what it was, what to do with it, and why someone would choose this ‘rar’ format at all…
Then you were lead to a program called WinRAR to extract its contents…
Whoop Whoop, Juggalos MMFWCL lolz.
Some are looking at this title and asking themselves “what the is hell nu metal anyway? What was wrong with the OLD metal?”
Math is just an evil place all-around. It’s hard to do, and if you can’t do it, you suck. It’s never a liberating experience. I became a programmer so I can have the computer do all the math for me so I don’t have to waste my brain cells thinking about it. And while I’m on the topic of how shitty math is, I’d like to reference a few things from an article from Maddox – Math Doesn’t Suck, You Do.
Maddox is my favorite author, so this article had a lot of good points. It defended math, or rather it insulted people who can’t do math and talk about math as though it’s a useless subject. It also panned the idea that being bad at math was hip or cool.
However, Maddox, you are wrong in places.
I’m a week away from taking my Linux+/LPIC-1 certification exam, so I figured I’d take the time to express my thoughts on learning Linux, or at the very least how the hell I did it. I remember one time in particular where I had to help my mom save her stuff off her hard disk when Windows was failing, and she had this confused look as I popped in a thumb drive and booted into DamnSmallLinux and began ratatatting away getting her stuff copied over. Where did I find all this? How the hell do I even know what I’m doing? Why would I want to learn all this?
I’ve played dungeons of all kinds in video games. They always seem to be very intricate and difficult to make. Sometimes, I really have trouble figuring them out. When designing dungeons, I keep trying to shoot for these crazy logical puzzles, and before I know it, I’ve created a complete mess. The problem is I’m completely missing the point with a dungeon.
Rather than focus on the entire dungeon at once, try to focus on it one room at a time. You can connect the rooms later. This goes back to the chunking idea I mentioned in my last article.
Being a gamer, sometimes I’d get the urge to make my own adventure. I’ll get sick of the adventures I play, and feel that I can do it better. Of course, after I try my hand at it, I realize that it’s a lot of work, and requires a level of creativity that I don’t have. However, that didn’t stop me from at least learning the process of how to go about doing it.
Before I get into the mechanics behind what ssh tunneling is, I think it best to explain why you should give a damn. Tired of school/work firewalls blocking you from going places? Tired of using public wifi and knowing that everything you’re doing can be traced by someone who isn’t even tech-savvy? This solves those problems. That’s right, now you can bypass your mean restrictive networks at work or school, and nobody can trace where you’re going.
SSH tunneling is awesome.
My favorite Zelda game was always Majora’s Mask.
Look at any basic computer applications class, and you’ll see the curriculum is centered around Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Windows. This to me limits the actual lesson of learning computer applications. If the point of the lesson is to learn how to use a document writer, a spreadsheet maker, a slideshow maker, and a drawing program, then why do they only focus on Microsoft products? This to me actually detracts from learning the basics of how an application like that should run, and is actually teaching you how to move about in Windows.