Posting my own updates because I know who I am.

Khalif Diouf '11, aka Leif, has his latest EP, Flossy Bounce, available for download and streaming on Chazology. The mix incorporates everything from Sufjan Stevens to Fergie to Crystal Castles. Listen to it. Also, go to this show if you are in NYC tomorrow. It will be fun.

How to share a folder on the network

Decided to take the plunge and throw open the doors to your media horde, eh? SMBsearch may still be down, but your favorite computers are up and running. Do your part for the common man today and start sharing! The instructions below are taken from WesConfess, so big hearty thank-yous to the posters!

Windows:
Right-click on the folder you want to share and select Properties. Click the Sharing tab, and check "Share this folder on the network".

Note: If you're on Windows, I strongly recommend turning on some kind of anti-virus software. I've never gotten a virus from the network, but only because my virus scan catches 'em.

Mac OS X:
Go to System Preferences- Sharing - Services - Windows Sharing.

This may serve out your entire home directory by default which may be more than you want. If you want more fine tuned control (specific folders or what not), there's a program called SharePoints. If SharePoints doesn't work or offends you in some fashion, you can edit a file on your computer called: /etc/smb.conf - it's pretty well-documented and straight forward to do so.

Linux:
Get the samba tools (differs by distro, but every decent one should package it) and edit the samba conf file (typically /etc/smb.conf or /etc/samba/smb.conf) There's probably GUI tools as well, though I know nothing about them.

Finally, here's a list of computers that should be available:

EYEOFTHESUCK
ISHUKU
PUPILOFTHESUCK
FIFTYBILLION
ROSA
BEARANGER
THEBEAST
DANCEPARTY
HIVE
CUCUMBER
DIRELAND
24-7MOVIES

Download, don't stream!

Software for Starving Students

Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone). We've gathered a list of best-in-class programs onto one CD (one disc for OS X, one for Windows), including a fully-featured office suite, a cutting-edge web browser, multi-media packages, academic tools, utilities and more.

Note that you're downloading a virtual disk image, not physically getting a disc. You'll need some sort of disk image emulator. The OS X version is ~648MB, and the Windows version is ~675MB. And take advantage of the torrent link, would ya?

The software bundle contains:

OS X

• Acqlite
• Adium
• Audacity
• Bleezer
• Blender
• BZFlag
• Camino
• Carbon Copy Cloner
• Cashbox
• Celestia
• ClamXav
• Crack Attack!
• Enigma
• FreeDMG
• Freemind
• Fugu
• Genius
• GLtron
• HandBrake
• ImageBurner
• Monolingual
• MozoDojo
• NeoOffice
• NVU
• Pac the Man X
• Platypus
• POV-Ray
• Seashore
• Schoolhouse
• Smultron
• Thunderbird
• Transmission
• TypeTrainer4Mac
• VideoLAN Client

Windows

• 7-Zip
• Ant Renamer
• Audacity
• Blender
• BZFlag
• Celestia
• ClamWin
• DeepBurner Free
• Dia
• Enigma
• Eraser
• Exact Audio Copy
• FileZilla
• Firefox
• Freeciv
• Gaim
• GIMPShop
• GLtron
• GNU Chess
• Icebreaker
• Inkscape
• Juice Receiver
• KeePass
• MozBackup
• NVU
• OpenOffice.org
• Paint.NET
• PDFCreator
• Portable Apps
• POV-Ray
• PuTTY
• SolarWolf
• Spybot S&D
• Stellarium
• SuperTux
• The GIMP Toolkit
• Thunderbird
• Tortoise SVN
• Tux Paint
• Tux Racer
• Tux Typing 2
• VLC
• WinDirStat
• Wink
• winLAME
• WinSCP
• XAMPP
• µTorrent

Get 'em here!

Flashmute

If you're addicted to Winterbells but can't stand that bleedin' cute background music anymore, fear not. Flashmute is a tiny app that lives in your system tray that allows you to mute your browser without having to mute your entire computer. And making that little bunny hop from bell to bell to the Pixies is a different experience entirely. Windows only, unforch.

The Essential Reading Week/Finals Mix

Here are four songs to get you through the next week. I have been listening to these every morning to get pumped. And man, I am so PUMPED!! It's so EXTREME!!! I'm so fucking ENERGIZED that it's 5:30am and I am watching my friend play Final Fantasy XII!!!!

I'm not even going to tell you their names. It's a guessing game. You like games, yes? Especially ludicrously easy ones? Unlike your life right now? Fine, okay, the song titles are in the file names, I don't even care.

Man, fuck finals.

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GPA Calculator

Because speculating about grades is more fun than working for them.

Instead of studying for finals I made a GPA calculator, available for download here. You can either input your current GPA and number of credits and find out how future grades will affect you, or keep track of all your grades ever.

I promised I'm not obsessed with my or anyone else's GPA. Just with spreadsheets, and calculating things, and academia. Yay!