It seems like I haven’t updated this site in a long time. Thanks to elen214, elen248, math308 and cpsc211 plus my job, I am left with almost no free time. But I did manage to squeeze in a few minutes today to check up on my domains status and this hosting to see if everything is all and well. I was expecting to see no more than 100MB average http traffic per day over the last month, but what I was seeing was 1.7GB a day. So I look up on the log analyzer and realize the most requested file was a really large gif image relating to football, which was posted on some football fan site, and thats whats causing this issue. Hopefully the .htaccess file I made will refuse images just to that site.

In other news, today is the first day after spring break. Being on campus for 12 hours packed with classes and work back to back is no fun after spending spring break in Las Vegas. Now time to count days until the summer, hopefully these few days will fly by just like the days of spring break.

I have realized that AutoIt is my new best friend at work. It helps me get the job done right, fast, at the same time with the least amount of effort. AutoIt is simply windows batch files on steroids, and has very easy to use scripting language in which you can do everything a batch file can do but at the same time allow you control gui objects such as clicking, sending keystrokes to applications plus a bunch of other really nice stuff. So you can automate those installations and configurations of applications and systems that cannot be done from the command line or any other automated method. So I have been writing AutoIt script files mainly for installation and upgrades of software I have to do routinely. Now instead of spending 30 minutes in front of a computer installing, waiting and configuring a software package or something similar, I can simply start the autoit script, step away and work on something else while it takes care of everything. Time is saved, less effort is required, productivity increases and everyone is happy. Highly recommend this if you too work in such field.

Hopefully I will write about something more interesting next time. Enjoy until then.