It all started with an issue in a computer lab in room 216 of Elliot Hall. Over the summer, the IT staff at Mansfield University decided it would be proper to disallow mansfield.edu access from this particular lab, citing “security” issues. This is all fine and dandy, since the people who use the lab are [...]
I have finally dusted off my camera and taken some new pictures. I found this kitten at Ashley’s father’s house and I decided to take some pictures of it. See the album by clicking on the picture below (redirect to cleteblackwellphoto.com).
Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans! Herei s a picture of a kitten that I took today:
I have recently finished installing Gentoo Linux on an old IBM 600E laptop. At one time I would have called this laptop a powerhorse, but that time is not today nor five years ago even. The laptop contains a Mobile Pentium II processor clocked at a racing 364MHz. It also contains a whopping total of [...]
Stopping a thread in Java has proven to be a pain for me. You can’t call a the stop() method anymore even if your thread doesn’t have anything that will fail by abruptly stopping a thread. I found this awesome code that shuts down a thread and I thought I would share it. Simple and [...]