IT Milk: archive

ACCTG 211: Financial and Managerial Accounting is one of the best courses I’m taking at Penn State University. The course would be at the top of the list of practical courses to take in college that “help you in the real world.” Plus, the professor is great; my section is with Professor Ken Pasch, an […]

I’ve only been on campus for four full days and I already received a bandwidth usage warning from ResCom (residential computing). The funny thing is that I am approaching my bandwidth limit even though I have not downloaded a single torrent or initiated in any P2P activities. By the way, the bandwidth restriction for Penn […]

I’m back at Penn State University, this time at the University Park campus. I am living on-campus in a townhouse at White Course, surrounded by families with young children and graduate students. It seems that I am the only undergraduate student living here, which is kind of awkward when all of my neighbors ask me […]

My favorite place to eat lunch during my internship in Wilkes-Barre has been Circles on the Square. Circles, the best deli in Wilkes-Barre, is just around the corner from the Pepperjam office. I can’t just say that it is awesome without some evidence, so here are the reasons:

Conveniently located 50 meters away from the office
Easy […]

There’s a new reality TV show coming into town that’s going to displace every other reality show that has ever existed. That includes mega-popular shows like American Idol and Survivor. This show is called Tontine and the concept of the show is exactly what the word means (Altrincham History Society):
A club whose participants contributed equally […]

Ning, where you can create your own social network for free, makes you pay $4.95 per month to use your own domain name. This is part of their Premium Features package that includes buying more bandwidth and buying the rights to the Adsense advertisements. I wouldn’t normally let someone extort that much money out of […]

Continuing with the Search Hit of the Week series, here is this week’s entry:
lying on your congressional nominations for service academy admissions
This searcher is either now applying or planning on applying to a service academy, and he or she is considering the consequences of lying on the congressional nomination application. This search hit is interesting […]

When he’s not chasing Asian chicks or rocking out to emo music, Steve likes to be a programmer. One of the leading software development interns at Pepperjam, Steve is without-a-doubt one of the rising stars in the College of IST at Penn State University.
After nagging Steve to start a Wordpress blog about programming and web […]

Here is a useful guide to partitioning your Linux distribution. I did not come up with the core ideas of this article, and all due credit goes to Wes Hablett, the chief network administrator at Pepperjam.
I just reformatted my hard drive to use only Linux, Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn in particular. It’s time to go […]