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Mines has been ranked “as one of the nation’s top 16 engineering specialty schools in the 2006 U. S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges.” We are also the 51st “Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs” at engineering schools whose highest degree is a doctorate.

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Rush Week Begins

Today marks the start of Rush week at the Mines campus. Ben, Chris, Mike and myself went to Casino Night but didn’t win anything. I’ve thought about joining a fraternity before, but I’m giving it even more thought this year. I just spend about an hour browsing the various fraternities at mines and Kappa Sigma caught my attention. So I’m going to check it out tomorrow. Here’s a list of all the fraternities at Mines:

  • Alpha Tau Omega
  • Beta Theta Pi
  • Kappa Sigma
  • Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI)
  • Sigma Alpha Epsilon
  • Sigma Nu
  • Sigma Phi Epsilon
  • Sigma Upsilon Pi

Any thoughts on fraternities?

Mines Internet Radio is Coming Along

The PCClub order was sent out today. It should hopefully be here on Monday. I’ve been doing more work on the MIR website and if you are on campus or VPN in, you can check it out at http://radio.mines.edu. For everyone else out in Internet-land, I’m working on submitting the needed forms to have the firewall rules amended to allow traffic to reach the server.

MIR Beta is Up and Running

I’ve been working on various aspect of the server for the last 6+ hours or so. I was finally able to get the Dell PowerEdge SC420 server up and running after having some issues with Fedora Core 4 and the graphics card. For some reason, FC4 can’t figure out how to get the graphics to display properly. After searching for the Internet and reading some Linux sites, I finally determined that FC4 cannot be run on the SC420. However, FC3 (that would be Fedora Core 3) can. So I downloaded FC3, it only took like 6 minutes per an ISO (I had a 1Mbit+ connection!!), and installed that. I was able to get everything working and the IceCast2 Server Installed. So right now I have a beta stream up and running.

I also figured out the PCClub thing. Some where, at some point in time, the order was lost or misplaced. I really don’t know who lost it and I really don’t care. What I do care about is how PCClub is handling it. They are working very closely with me and seem to be committed to get my order in, figure out if there is anything we can change to get the order out sooner, and the shipping it ASAP. So chalk another one for PCClub.

MIR Getting Closer To Launch

I just got back from a Radio Shack run to get some last minute cables and other supplies that we needed. Still no word on the PCClub package that we so desperately need.

More Equipment Setup

I went back to the CSMBC studio and setup more of the equipment and created a list of everything we need. It’s going to be tight, but we should be broadcasting before the 17th.

Equipment Has Arrived!

I talked with John Kane yesterday, and he said that equipment that CSMBC ordered from Dell and PCClub had been ordered and had been shipped. I also talked with Derek Morgan and he said that he also saw boxes from BSW USA, so that meant that everything we ordered should have arrived. Unfortunately, when I got in to the office, only items from Dell and BSW USA had arrived. So I set up one of the studios and some of the equipment from BSW USA. I also took the streaming server home so I could get it set up. So that’s what I’m working on now.

Billings Alumni

Tyler Anderson: Washington State University in Pullman, Washington

David Barker: Traveling to Europe and Costa Rica

Andrew Ferguson: Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado

Lindsay Hansberry: University of Denver in Denver, Colorado

Katherine Latimer:  Washington State University in Pullman, Washington

Ali Messinger: Seattle Central Community College in Seattle, Washington

Niel Radheshwar: University of Washington in Seattle, Washington

Sam Ricketts: Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York

Maya Stessin: University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio

Stephanie Runo: Washington and Jefferson College in Washington,Pennsylvania

Mesa Schumaker: Stanford University in Stanford, California

Adrienne Wilson: Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts

Found: 12 of 12! Woo-hoo!

SAAS Alumni Reunion

SAAS had an all alumni reunion earlier tonight. I didn’t get there until 6:30 because A) I forgot about it; and B) I had work until 5 and then took the bus home. In any event, it was very fun. I had the chance to finally talk to Canuche. I also was able to finally talk with Jean Orvis, Head of SAAS (think Principal). I saw Jim Rupp who congratulated me on my Frank Sinatra performance on Tuesday (I sang My Kind of Town over a year ago at Vocal Review). I also talked with Mark about some major overhauls to a program I wrote for him. All in all, a good time.