2003-04-01

 
Departing GWU for Good.
The best advertising a university can do is to support their alumni with email and web server access. One would expect that if the university has shaped their students (clients?) into latent successes, their audiences will expand. Nevertheless, the university does not see things this way and only seeks to free up bandwidth (perhaps a large problem of the future, as more and more people will be using online resources for communication). Although they have delayed the deletion of my supposedly permanent melnicki@gwu.edu email address, they are deleting my webserver access. The biggest tragedy will be the loss of my thesis, but even more hurtful will be the relocation of my webpage, Future Wave. I am still looking for a proper home without having to pay for it. However, in the meantime, I will phase in the new address, before the access actually kicks out: http://futurewave.dyns.cx -- this is a free service by DYNS that enables you to keep one address but to point it to some longer address that may keep changing. Thus, I only need to give out this address, though the host (where the files are kept) might change all the time (as I keep switching servers)... Someone has told me about this and also of another option: he says that the San Francisco domain name is free, that you can register melnicki.sf.ca.us, for instance, for free. I haven't gotten this to work yet, though, but that would be a neat domain name! I hope to learn more about computers, networking, software, and eventually programming, but this will take much time... plus you can't learn anything unless you know of applications for your knowledge.
posted by MM 10:22 AM