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Current music:J. S. Bach: Organ Sonata No. 6 in G, BWV 530, 3. Allegro

Summer slavery
Some of you might have been wondering what I've been doing with my summer job.  It's hella exciting and something akin to changing 99 to 1999 for the year 2000 switchover.  While one example doesn't look so bad, it's doing it thousands of times (and checking each one manually) that's the killer.  Basically I add the code below that you see in bold.

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All of this translates into a nice web page for someone who searches for Lecture Notes in Computer Science.  They now don't even have to trot their lazy ass over to the library to check it out.  They can just download a copy for free.

Meeting name CICLing 2006 (2006 : Mexico City, Mexico)
Title Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing : 7th international conference, CICLing 2006, Mexico City, Mexico, February 19-25, 2006 : proceedings / Alexander Gelbukh (ed.).
Published Berlin : Springer, 2006.
Description xvii, 589 p. : ill., charts ; 24 cm.
WU HAS ONLINE ACCESS:
Connect to http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t3878.htm
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
  Olin Level B Stacks  QA76.9.T48 C49 2006         NOT CHECKD OUT
Series Lecture notes in computer science, 0302-9743 ; 3878
Note Also available to subscribers via the World Wide Web.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects Computational linguistics -- Congresses.
  Discourse analysis -- Data processing -- Congresses.
Other author Gelbukh, Alexander, 1962-
ISBN 3540322051
Standard # 9783540322054
OCLC # 64450613

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[info]circumgoy
2006-07-31 03:09 pm UTC (link)
*cough* loser *cough*

I jest.

I jest don't know what to do with myself.

If it makes you feel any better, I have found the depths of A&S Computing Center tedium to be nigh un-plumbable.

The questions some of the professors ask about their computers are not to be believed. The things they do not know about their computers (and computers in general) are not to be believed.

Professors flip out when Pine is down, and don't seem to realize they can go to the A&S Webmail page and log on just like anybody else. Professors flip out when Ctrl+C cancels their message, and doesn't copy text like they think it oughta. Professors flip out when their Apple computer craps out on them, because Apple computers--they've heard--are not supposed to crap out on anyone. Those same professors bitch because there is no screen capture key. They think it unreasonable that it takes three keys to do the same function (shift+Apple+3, I think. It's super-easy to find out). They think it unreasonable that Firefox doesn't seem to give a damn when they press the "page down" or "end" keys when they are browsing on their Apples. Hey, Mr. New-to-Apple-and-Firefox Man, it ain't my fault. Lower your voice. Go back to using Explorer on your Dell if you can't stomach change, but don't bitch when Explorer crashes every time you open more than ten files, and don't ask me why Explorer gets so testy when you try to use the "Find" feature it pretends to offer (when it feels like it), or why Explorer doesn't have a tab feature.

Professors call asking how to import a sound file to a PowerPoint presentation without bothering to look through PowerPoint's "help" index. Professors get bitchy when you try to help them, and yell out "I already did that!" when you are going through a routine trouble-shoot with them.

Incoming freshmen call in pretty routinely begging for their e-mail passwords. It's not that they have any real need for those passwords. It's that they are desperate to create a Facebook account.

I do a lot of PC toting. I replace power supplies and fried drives. (Turns out this is easier to do than I thought it would be.) I help professors set up Thunderbird and lend a polite ear to their prating about Pegasus Mail and the good old days.

Whatever the case, it beats working as a Certified Nursing Assistant in a nursing home--especially in this heat.

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