Semester 2 starts today
Semester 2 started today. How good is Monday. I start at 9.15 with an 08120 lecture with Rob Miles, have an hour's rest, then another 08120 (Programming 2) lecture. I then have an hour's free time before I go to a Programming 2 tutorial followed by an 08119 (Information Technology and Professional Skills) lecture. I then have an hour before I have my final 08125 (Quantitative Methods or Maths) lecture at 4:15. I literally am working 9 to 5, or 9:15 to 5:15. Phew. I then go home and watch the simpsons, and tonight. I will go into the kitchen to plan a coursework essay, olga! :-P
Monday, January 29, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Take a look at this article from Magnifiers.org
It talks about the accessibility, or lack of it, natively in Windows Vista. I am, in actual fact, running Windows Vista Business to write this blog. Unfortunately, my brand new shiny copy of ZoomText 9.0 will not work under Vista. Instead, I have to wait for ZoomText 9.1 to come out. I agree with this article in that why doesn't Vista come with a full-screen magnifier proper screen reader with lots of different languages and clear voices, and, oh yes, the ability to work in Microsoft Word, unlike Microsoft Narrator.
It seems to me that Microsoft have paid more attention to anti-piracy measures than they have to making Windows Vista accessible. I'm going to stop now and take a cocktail of headache tablets because my eyes are straining on this. Thanks, Bill, you really did well there. Now does anyone have a Mac that they would sell cheap because Vista just locks me out :(
It talks about the accessibility, or lack of it, natively in Windows Vista. I am, in actual fact, running Windows Vista Business to write this blog. Unfortunately, my brand new shiny copy of ZoomText 9.0 will not work under Vista. Instead, I have to wait for ZoomText 9.1 to come out. I agree with this article in that why doesn't Vista come with a full-screen magnifier proper screen reader with lots of different languages and clear voices, and, oh yes, the ability to work in Microsoft Word, unlike Microsoft Narrator.
It seems to me that Microsoft have paid more attention to anti-piracy measures than they have to making Windows Vista accessible. I'm going to stop now and take a cocktail of headache tablets because my eyes are straining on this. Thanks, Bill, you really did well there. Now does anyone have a Mac that they would sell cheap because Vista just locks me out :(
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Windows Vista, Wireless Networking and Revision
A couple of weeks ago, I downloaded Windows Vista Business through the Academic Alliance. Apart from the fact that my desktop is jam-packed with geriatric hardware (even though it is powered by an AMD Athlon64 3200+ Venice chip) and won't run the shiny new Aero interface, I quite like it. I have had to wrestle with some drivers to make them work, mainly for my ABit UL8 M1689 motherboard, but my new Epson DX4000 All-In-One Printer/Scanner/Copier installed without too much hassle. I just installed the drivers using the Windows Found New Hardware Wizard, and then installed everything else using Epson's own installer utility.
I bought a USB Belkin Wi-fi adapter for my desktop computer so that I could set up a wireless network in the student accommodation so that we can all share files easily and so that I can access files from my desktop computer from my laptop in the kitchen, where I seem to work better. For £24.99 I thought it was a good price for what it can do. OK, so it won't do 802.11n, but neither will anything else (I don't think, anyway) in this house. It will, however support the a, b and g standards, which is good enough. It was really easy to set up, with the Belkin utility taking care of everything. Within minutes I had a wireless network running. Unfortunately, twenty-four hours later, everything died. It didn't really matter until about three o' clock on Saturday Morning when everybody fancied some music. Picture this, here I am, a bit worse for wear, at three in the morning with a broken wireless. I decided to try and set the thing up under Vista, which surprisingly I did well. Once I had made the driver installation utility think it was running under Windows XP SP2, it installed without any problem. I then went to Start > Connect To, and Windows Vista then made a secure Ad Hoc Wireless network for me in seconds, after a few mishaps, I was running a wireless network again. Windows Vista takes out all the unnecessary complications out of setting up a wireless network, so that even drunk people can do it. I had internet connection sharing enabled as well so that I could surf the web in the kitchen. In fact, I am writing this post on my laptop while listening to music stored on my desktop computer.
Oh yes and the revision. Well, I have limited desk space so I don't have room to swing a textbook that's too large for my Daylight Double Flexi-Clamp, so I have to come and work in the kitchen, and I like to have my laptop for things such as writing notes down or accessing materials on the Internet, so there IS an academic reason I have wireless. Also, sometimes I have to use my OPTi Verso Camera to enlarge text onto my laptop's screen, and there is no room for that in my bedroom, so again I have to use the kitchen table, and yes, it is useful for me to be able to access wireless.
A couple of weeks ago, I downloaded Windows Vista Business through the Academic Alliance. Apart from the fact that my desktop is jam-packed with geriatric hardware (even though it is powered by an AMD Athlon64 3200+ Venice chip) and won't run the shiny new Aero interface, I quite like it. I have had to wrestle with some drivers to make them work, mainly for my ABit UL8 M1689 motherboard, but my new Epson DX4000 All-In-One Printer/Scanner/Copier installed without too much hassle. I just installed the drivers using the Windows Found New Hardware Wizard, and then installed everything else using Epson's own installer utility.
I bought a USB Belkin Wi-fi adapter for my desktop computer so that I could set up a wireless network in the student accommodation so that we can all share files easily and so that I can access files from my desktop computer from my laptop in the kitchen, where I seem to work better. For £24.99 I thought it was a good price for what it can do. OK, so it won't do 802.11n, but neither will anything else (I don't think, anyway) in this house. It will, however support the a, b and g standards, which is good enough. It was really easy to set up, with the Belkin utility taking care of everything. Within minutes I had a wireless network running. Unfortunately, twenty-four hours later, everything died. It didn't really matter until about three o' clock on Saturday Morning when everybody fancied some music. Picture this, here I am, a bit worse for wear, at three in the morning with a broken wireless. I decided to try and set the thing up under Vista, which surprisingly I did well. Once I had made the driver installation utility think it was running under Windows XP SP2, it installed without any problem. I then went to Start > Connect To, and Windows Vista then made a secure Ad Hoc Wireless network for me in seconds, after a few mishaps, I was running a wireless network again. Windows Vista takes out all the unnecessary complications out of setting up a wireless network, so that even drunk people can do it. I had internet connection sharing enabled as well so that I could surf the web in the kitchen. In fact, I am writing this post on my laptop while listening to music stored on my desktop computer.
Oh yes and the revision. Well, I have limited desk space so I don't have room to swing a textbook that's too large for my Daylight Double Flexi-Clamp, so I have to come and work in the kitchen, and I like to have my laptop for things such as writing notes down or accessing materials on the Internet, so there IS an academic reason I have wireless. Also, sometimes I have to use my OPTi Verso Camera to enlarge text onto my laptop's screen, and there is no room for that in my bedroom, so again I have to use the kitchen table, and yes, it is useful for me to be able to access wireless.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Data Structures and Algorithms: Table of Contents
Thanks to a course mate, I am posting this link up on my blog. This will be useful as a last minute revision aid to those studying for module 08101 Programming 1 at the University of Hull. Sorry about the delay in putting this link up.
Data Structures and Algorithms: Table of Contents
Data Structures and Algorithms: Table of Contents
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
I have been tagged by Rob Miles, who is one of my lecturers at The University of Hull. I, like Rob have never been tagged before so I am going to post five things you didn't know about me (Well most of you anyway). Unlike Rob, I am something of a motormouth so I have probably told you these facts anyway but, for those of you who are not in the know, here goes.
1) I've had a couple of appearances in the newspaper. Once, when I was eight, some violinists came to our school and did a concert for Primary 1 and 2, of which I was in Primary 2 at the time. At the end they asked if anyone wanted a go, and me being the loud one and the one to be noticed (nothing changes, does it?) I volunteered, and before I knew where I was, I ended up being photographed for the Telegraph & Argus, which is the local paper back in Bradford.
2) I pick up accents really easily. Having had a girlfriend from Withernsea last year and coming to Hull this year, parts of my speech sound Hull. I only started to talk "Hullglish" in July/August. Up to that I had a West Yorkshire accent.
3) I went to Temple Bank School for the Visually Impaired from being aged three and three quarters until the Secondary department's closure in July 2002, when I was aged fourteen and a half. While there, I managed to be able to gain a reputation of wrecking any computer or laptop in sight. Ooops!! When Temple Bank closed and amalgamated with Hanson School, I realised that I didn't have idea about how to behave around others because I had had no friends at home and I had been cocooned in a specialist school environment and as a result, others found me 'wierd'.
4) It's no secret that I have Asperger Syndrome (it says so on my home page) but I wasn't diagnosed by a nurse until I was sixteen and a half. I was here doing stuff that I didn't understand and I didn't know why.
5) I can play the musical keyboard. I started learning when I was seven and even though I don't own a keyboard now, when I see one, I still like to play. I also can't read a note of music, so I play by ear. On Christmas Day I was playing with my three-year old niece's keyboard and found that I could play 'Brown Boxes' by The Spinto Band, or at least the beginning of it.
Now I have to tag some people, so I am going to tag Lauren and KK Unfortunately I do not know of anyone in the computing sector who has a blog, apart from, Rob.
Unfortunately these names at the moment are not hyperlinks. I am going to ask permission from the people before I convert them to hyperlinks
1) I've had a couple of appearances in the newspaper. Once, when I was eight, some violinists came to our school and did a concert for Primary 1 and 2, of which I was in Primary 2 at the time. At the end they asked if anyone wanted a go, and me being the loud one and the one to be noticed (nothing changes, does it?) I volunteered, and before I knew where I was, I ended up being photographed for the Telegraph & Argus, which is the local paper back in Bradford.
2) I pick up accents really easily. Having had a girlfriend from Withernsea last year and coming to Hull this year, parts of my speech sound Hull. I only started to talk "Hullglish" in July/August. Up to that I had a West Yorkshire accent.
3) I went to Temple Bank School for the Visually Impaired from being aged three and three quarters until the Secondary department's closure in July 2002, when I was aged fourteen and a half. While there, I managed to be able to gain a reputation of wrecking any computer or laptop in sight. Ooops!! When Temple Bank closed and amalgamated with Hanson School, I realised that I didn't have idea about how to behave around others because I had had no friends at home and I had been cocooned in a specialist school environment and as a result, others found me 'wierd'.
4) It's no secret that I have Asperger Syndrome (it says so on my home page) but I wasn't diagnosed by a nurse until I was sixteen and a half. I was here doing stuff that I didn't understand and I didn't know why.
5) I can play the musical keyboard. I started learning when I was seven and even though I don't own a keyboard now, when I see one, I still like to play. I also can't read a note of music, so I play by ear. On Christmas Day I was playing with my three-year old niece's keyboard and found that I could play 'Brown Boxes' by The Spinto Band, or at least the beginning of it.
Now I have to tag some people, so I am going to tag Lauren and KK Unfortunately I do not know of anyone in the computing sector who has a blog, apart from, Rob.
Unfortunately these names at the moment are not hyperlinks. I am going to ask permission from the people before I convert them to hyperlinks
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