As you can probably see, I'm in
CS 23:
Software Engineering, for some inexplicable reason.
(I am not now, nor have ever been, a
Computer Science major.) This is one of our homework assignments. We're
supposed to have some links, like the one to the
the main page for this
college, which is at
HTTP://WWW.Dartmouth.EDU/. I have a page on there too, at the URL:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~croydon, but I don't keep it up to date, so
like I said, check out my
real page, which is running on one of my two computers, which I named
croydon. It's running Linux, and
is a remarkably convenient place to keep a web page since I can just run my
own server and put as much stuff up there as I want.
Before I bore you to death, here are a few more links to satisfy the
homework requirement:
- ITN: The Internet Travel
Network -- a handy site for looking up airline fares and stuff, it's
free!
- USF: University of San Francisco -- a
Jesuit University in (obviously) San Francisco, near Haight and the Richmond
district. Why is it here? Because my
girlfriend, Marie, goes
there.
- Adaptec and
SMC are both companies that make boards
which I'm using and have managed to agravate me.
- Yahoo is a search engine. It's the one I
tend to use first because the URL (http://yahoo.com/) is so easy to
remember.
And a list of things about me, again, for the homework requirement: (Written
in the third person just because I felt like it)
- Nate Edel is a '98, and was born on Halloween in 1975.
- He prefers PC-compatible machines to Macintoshes, and has two of them in
his dorm room "croydon" and "coniston". He used to have an LC II, also, but
decided it didn't make a very good pizza tray.
- He's a Sigma Nu (Delta Beta chapter #72, Initiate #1200) -- If you meet
him in person, feel free to ask about his house name.
- He's Treasurer of the
Creative Gaming club, and the former photography editor of
The Dartmouth.
- He's an Anthropology major, and is considering a minor in Computer
Science.
- Anthro courses he's taken:
- Anthro 151: Introduction to Linguistics, with Prof. McLendon, at
Hunter College/CUNY
- ANTH 6: Introduction to Biological Anthropology, with Prof.
Korey
- ANTH 7: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, with Prof.
Endicott
- ANTH 20: Introduction to Ethnographic Fieldwork, with Prof.
Schwab
- ANTH 33: Archaeology of the Andes, with Prof. Goldstein
- ANTH 37: Archaeology of Mesoamerica, with Prof. Nichols
- ANTH 42: Island Southeast Asia, with Prof. Endicott -- THIS
TERM.
- ANTH 62: Hominid Evolution, with Prof. Korey
- Computer Science (and related) courses he's taken:
- AP Computer Science, with Mr. Leong, at Hunter High School
- CSCI 145: Computer Architecture I, with Prof. Avcilar, at
Hunter College/CUNY
- CSCI 235: Software Design II, with Prof. Cabrasawan, at
Hunter College/CUNY
- CSCI 340: Operating Systems, with Prof. Schweitzer
Hunter College/CUNY
- COSC 19: Data Structures for AP Freshman, with Prof. Park
-
COSC 23: Software Engineering, with Prof. Danskin
- COSC 37: Computer Architecture, with Prof. Jayanti
- MATH 3: Calculus I, with Prof. Kreider
- and Nate had to drop MATH 8: Calculus II, to avoid failing.
Optional total geek section: (Specs on my two computers)
CONISTON (coniston.dartmouth.edu):
- PC Compatible, home-assembled in a mini-tower case.
- Operating Systems: Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Beta (Primary), MS-DOS
6.22 and Linux (secondary)
- Intel Advanced/EV "Endeavor" Motherboard, with type 5 (120mhz max
socket) and AMI/Intel bios.
- Intel Pentium 75mhz processor, no floating point bug, successfully
overclocked to 120mhz in a test. (Planned upgrade: Cyrix 6x86 120mhz
Processor, when I get the cash)
- Memory Configuration: 24mb Main Memory (70ns FPM DRAM SIMMS) +
256kb Pipeline Burst Cache (8.5ns SRAM COAST DIMM)
- Disk Configuration: 825mb total, 3 physical, 5 virtual drives
- Western Digital WD2340AC 325mb IDE HD, Virtual Drive C: and
Linux, each 162mb
- Western Digital WD4200A 202mb IDE HD, Virual Drive D: and
Windows NT (F:), 30mb and 170mb respectively
- Micropolis 300mb SCSI-1 HD, Drive E:
- Toshiba XM-3401 (2x speed) SCSI External CD-ROM drive
- Boards/Controllers:
- Diamond Stealth 64 PCI 2mb VRAM "SuperVGA" video board (S3 964 +
Bt485)
- Adaptec AHA-1542B SCSI Adapter
- Creative Labs Vibra-16 sound board (built on motherboard)
- SMC Ethercard Ultra 16 (8216) Combo Ethernet card
- 1.44mb Floppy Drive
- Viewsonic 17, 17" monitor.
- IP Address: 129.170.146.12
CROYDON (croydon.dartmouth.edu):
- PC Compatible, home-assembled in loose pieces on my desk.
- Operating Systems: Linux (primary) and MS-DOS 6.22 (secondary)
- Non-brand (Taiwanese?) 386DX motherboard, with AMI bios.
- AMD 386DX 40mhz Processor,
- Memory Configuration: 8mb Main Memory (70ns FPM DRAM SIMMS) +
128kb Cache (20ns SRAM)
- Disk Configuration: 605mb total, 3 physical, 3 virtual drives
- Quantum Plus+ Hardcard 105mb, Drive C: (/archive/old)
- Western Digital WD4200 202mb SCSI-2 HD Linux (/)
- Micropolis 300mb SCSI-1 HD (/archive)
- Boards/Controllers:
- Boca Supervga 1mb
- Adaptec AHA-1542B SCSI Adapter
- Addtron AE200 10base-T Ethernet Card (NE2000 Compatible)
- No Floppy Drive
- No Keyboard (Telnet Access Only)
- Panasonic Panasync C1381 monitor (14" SVGA)
- IP Address: 129.170.146.11
This page written 2 April 96 by Nate Edel.
Nate Edel