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Your Real Name    Mark Roy
Faculty or Dept.    Computer Engineering
Timezone    Central Standard Time
(-0600)
Year in Program    4
A little about yourself    My name is Mark Roy, I am a 4th year Computer Engineering student at the University of Manitoba. At my school I am the Vice Chair of the University of Manitoba IEEE Student Branch. My interests include computers (obviously) and their related hardware/software.
Favourite Music    rock
Favourite Movies    Serenity
Favourite Academic Subject    Embedded Systems
Favourite TV Shows    Mythbusters, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate: SG1
Favourite Web Sites    http://www.stellarcore.com http://www.slashdot.org http://www.thedailywtf.com
Favourite Books    Sedra and Smith followed by Trim.
On VLC since    Jan 19, 2007
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I want more friends, feel free to contact me.    Yes
 
Recent Comments:
To-Do Item: Raise Tuition Fees
  • Re: Hey there. Apr 17, 2007, 10:18 am


    I'm tired of UMSU messing around where they shouldn't. I'm all for affordable tuition, but when the lack of funding starts to affect the quality of education, raising tuition should be seriously considered.

    Demanding the freeze (or cheaper) regardless of how much funding is given by the government is greedy and makes it seem like you dont care about the value of your education.

    Ask any student and they will tell you that the facilities and classes need improvement....


  • Raise Tuition Fees Feb 8, 2007, 12:31 pm
    Thaw the freeze, raise the fees!



    Edited on Feb 8, 2007, 12:32 pm...


To-Do Item: Can i set up Thunderbird to check my UM email account?
  • Re: Can i set up Thunderbird to check my UM email account? Feb 1, 2007, 5:01 pm


    Yupper! The university offers both a POP3 and IMAP service for your email. The difference between POP3 and IMAP is that with POP3 it downloads the messages and stores them on the computer that you're using to read your email.

    If you use IMAP, it keeps all of your email on the server so that you can view it from multiple computers and webmail without having to worry about which computer downloads your mail. The only disadvantage to using IMAP is that you have to worry about...


To-Do Item: Stop the global warming
  • Re: end of the world in 2036 Dec 19, 2006, 9:51 am



    Didn't you see those two movies, Deep Impact and Armageddon? The solution is obviously to send up a crack oil drilling team and have them dig a hole and drop a nuke to split the big asteroid open.

    Alternatively, we could start building a big underground shelter for our best scientists and a lottery selection of citizens to populate.

    More seriously, I've heard recently that NASA is planning missions to test the feasibility of altering the course of an asteroid...


Discussion Item: Watch less TV
  • Re: Solution Oct 16, 2006, 9:25 am


    I don't watch alot of broadcast TV, but I do download most of the shows that I like to watch. What typically happens is that I'll forget about it for a couple weeks or a month and then I'll download like 10 episodes and I won't be able to not watch them all at once.

    For instance, last weekend I rememberd this new sci-fi show that was coming out called Eureka, so I went online and downloaded the first 12 hour long epsiodes. Let's just say that by the end of the weekend I was looking for something else to watch. he he he....


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