Life's Miscellaneous Et Ceteras

Brandon Valosek's reflections on life, philosophy, and programming

Category: Computers and Programming

CNCStats PHP Library

Since I was but a wee lad I’ve been playing Command & Conquer games, but even before that I was a giant computer nerd.
I created the site www.cncboards.net to allow CnC players to track their stats and match history, as well as view detailed ranked ladder info. This sort of code could be useful to [...]

This Damn Website

My website has gone through quite a few iterations since its original conception back in the Fall of 2005. It was originally a C++ app I wrote from the ground up, listening on an open socket on my computer for people trying to connect via their browsers. It was a mess, but a really badass [...]

Why Linux Sucks

A few weeks ago, I thought I’d give Linux a legitimate try. Having spent a huge amount of time working with Linux machines both on campus and remotely, I felt I was pretty comfortable with the environment and the operating system overall. I was attracted to the power of the command line, the extraordinary modular [...]

Red Bull Gives Me Wings!

Unlike the care free celebrations, exciting festivities, and home-room parties of elementary school, the end of the semester in college only brings a suffocatingly large amount of work followed by an relentless battery of exams.
My status? Well, with ¾ of a Red Bull making its way through my guts, I’m continuing to charge ahead into [...]

New Laptop and Blood and Stuff

I recently fixed my roomate’s old laptop. It’s a hefty Compaq Presario 2200, with a 1.3 GHz Celeron M and 480 MB RAM. It’s underwhelming power in no way justifies the 5.2 lbs of flimsy plastic, but for working on my C and VHDL programs anywhere, it does the job.
The thing is, it would overheat [...]