Someone didn't vote the Sysnews/ITD ticket?
To escalate the dispute between administrative and Student Government forces, presumably someone took the next step and escalated the debate to the holiest of media--Sysnews! This post showed up on Sysnews Sunday night:
vote.ncsu.edu website shut down
Security - Service - Outage
The student government elections website vote.ncsu.edu was shut down just after 11pm on Sunday 3/26 due to an improper ballot submitted by the Elections Commission.
Information on when the Spring elections will be rescheduled will be posted once it is available.
Last Update: 2006-03-26 23:02:17
By: jsw
vote.ncsu.edu is currently redirected to said sysnews post. I suspect this is because the current "final" ballot contains references to lifelong education senators and changes to the constitution allowing prorated fee payers the ability to run for student senate.
However, I think it is because everybody has been dissing ITD and Sysnews, and this is just their way of getting a piece of the action. So the only way to solve the impasse is for everyone to vote the ITD ticket: Sam Averitt and Mladen Vouk!
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The French are worried....
The FrSIRT has raised their threat level (see sidebar) on the basis of two vulnerabilities: a sendmail vulnerability as well as an unpatched Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerability. Both vulnerabilities would allow a remote user to take root control of the system, and both have public exploits. I'm not really sure which one is more important--sendmail can be patched, but everyone and his mother uses it, so there are bound to be some unpatched systems. On the flip side, the IE vulnerability does not have a patch yet, and most people aren't going to think to disable ActiveX.
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When the cops come around....
Coming back around 7 or so from an event on campus, I was crossing Dan Allen towards the West Dunn building, when a campus police car comes and turns in front of West Dunn. This is highly unusual since the place was quite deserted, so I was quite interested. So then the officer gets out and asks what I have in my backpack. To be true, there was a large, rectangular, and bulky object taking up most of my backpack. So when I open it up and show (and tell him) that it's my printer (HP PSC 1300, which quite large and rectangular), he says that he wanted to make sure that I didn't have something I shouldn't have. Quite a weird incident to be true. If you see something like that show up in the police blotter soon, then you'll know who it was!
(On a sidenote, I did have a valid reason to have the printer in the backpack. I had thought this morning it might be needed, but it turned out it wasn't.)
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Laurie Williams was probably right....
It was said that the longer (and later) you work on a project without breaks means an increase in the bug injection rate. And of course, I happen to be writing backup schedules for the competition (for which I have to be on site at 7am). Neither will I get much sleep nor will I be able to put a high degree faith in these schedules, but they have to be made!
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sorry, weather boy
viz may announce their bleach license today
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