Michael P. O'Connor archive
Date : October 2004

A funny juxtaposition

Categories: Hay it is funny, Politics
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: October 21, 2004

Today as I was giving my pastors a lift to the airport, and on the drive out I saw the following 2 bumper stickers on the same car. The first was “Hate is not a family value” the second was a kerry sticker. The funny part is that the majority of the kerry base is[…]

Looks like I am still getting slashdot Visitors

Categories: News, Web Site
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Published on: October 20, 2004

The traffic has died down a bit, but I still see that the traffic is higher then usual. I wonder how many are just stragglers, how many are return visits because they like it, and how many are returning trolls. Over the last few days I been getting trolls in the responses, which I have[…]

The video is back up

Categories: Web Site
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: October 20, 2004

I have put the video back up on line, I hope that the traffic from slashdot has died down some. I am not going to put a link right to the file here, just to keep things light. But it should still be on the front page, if not go to the Technology section to[…]

Guns don’t kill people, abortionist kill people

Categories: Politics
Comments: 3 Comments
Published on: October 19, 2004

This election year 1) scares me and 2) saddens me. Why? You may ask. Simple this, the next for years may (if Peroutka or [to a lesser extent] Bush get elected) could help save many many lives of the unborn if a judge needs to be appointed. But if the pro-murder kerry gets in, we[…]

The Gateway laptop’s hard drive

Categories: Technology
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Published on: October 18, 2004

Finally the first partion of the hard drive on the gateway finished the bad block scan. It is now on the second of the 3. But they are much smaller when compared to the other one. Right now on the second partion it is on block 194038/262144 if it goes for another 11 days I[…]

Boom that hurt

Categories: Hay it is funny, Web Site
Comments: 3 Comments
Published on: October 18, 2004

Ok here is the final total, I have moved the video file for now but here is the total before the move of the file: 51839.16 Megabytes (Yes that is about 50Gb, I bet my hosting company loves me now) So for the next 2 days I will not have that video up to save[…]

The Video that was posted on slashdot

Categories: Web Site
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Published on: October 18, 2004

Ok if you clicked on the link at slashdot to view the video please Click here, to see the post. I had turned off the Hotlink Protection for the slashdot stuff, but now I have turned it back on again. I don’t think it should affect people much now, since it is almost off the[…]

WOW, ok that is alot of bandwidth used

Categories: Technology, Web Site
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Published on: October 18, 2004

Ok I got into the office and checked the bandwidth used, and it now reads 14911.41 Megabytes (~14Gb) WOW!!! that is more then I ever though I could server from my web site. Well lets see if I get slasdoted off the net today? Well I am investigating if I can buy a bit more[…]

Lets see how much traffic /. can bring here

Categories: Geekdom, Web Site
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Published on: October 18, 2004

I just got something submitted to /. that links to a file here from /. So far this morning the bandwidth usage is up at 336 Mb used and the story was posted at 7:30am and here we are about 2 hours and 15 minutes later and the site is up, I don’t think /.[…]

SWEET!!!!

Categories: Play, Web Site
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Published on: October 17, 2004

I just did a couple of searches on google today, one was to see how many pages are linked to my site, it returned 68. Before it was only returning 33. And I did a search for just my name Michael P. O’Connor and found that it is the first real hit. So if some[…]

This is funny

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Published on: October 17, 2004

Ok I went into the server logs and looked at where people were coming to my site from. Some were coming in from google, but I would never though my site would show up on some of the searches that are being reported. I followed back to these searches and 2 of them were valid[…]

CMU’s Robotics Institute

Categories: Technology
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: October 16, 2004

Well as posted the other day, where I and 2 of my coworkers dropped over to the Robotics institute to see what they were showing off. I have now converted the video taken there to a quick time movie. To view the video Please click on read more below

The hard drive in the gateway laptop

Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: October 15, 2004

W00t it is no about 1/2 way done on the bad block scan (3028872/6801228) I am so happy it just might finish before the end of the month!!! It has been going since Sep 29!! That is one borked hard drive. The drive is toast but I am going to let this finish for the[…]

Banned IP address due to spammers

Categories: Web Site
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Published on: October 13, 2004

Since I am haveing trouble with spammers, spamming my blog, I have not 1) all posts with URL’s in them will have to be appoved by me first before they can appear on this site (I will aprove almost all non-spam ones) comments with out URL’s will be posted with out me having to appove[…]

Ham and Short Wave radio BB added

Categories: Ham Radio, Web Site
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: October 13, 2004

I have decided to add a BB for ham radio and short wave radios, lets see if this one goes well. I will be letting some of my ham friends know about it. If you are a ham or intersted in ham radio or short wave radio listening then check it out at Ham and[…]

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