Allan G. Weber Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Southern California 3740 McClintock Ave., #410 Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564 Phone: (213) 740-4147 FAX: (213) 740-4651 E-Mail: Weekly schedule for Spring 2024

Celebrating a birthday at El Cholos!

What I Do

Allan Weber is currently in charge of the network for the Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI) and portions of the Department of Electrical Engineering and many of the computer systems connected to it. This means he gets to stand in front of the fan when stuff is hitting it.

Why I Do It

I wish I knew.

Guiding Philosophy of My Professional Life

"Of course I don't mind you barging into my office and making me drop everything I'm working on so I can help you with your silly little problem."

Note: The above does not apply to students in my classes since they have paid money for the right to barge into my office.

Important Things I've Recently Learned (That Most People Already Knew)

• ATM cards from U.S. banks work in Europe. Well, at least some of the time.
• At In-N-Out, you can ask them to make the French Fries well done. They come out much better.
• Improved chipping, pitching, and putting will make your golf score drop faster than crushing it off the tee.

Top Three Favorite Restaurants

• The Derby (233 E. Huntington Dr., Arcadia, CA) Don't even look at the menu. Just get the bacon-wrapped filet. It's a bit pricey, but worth it.
• El Cholos (1121 S. Western Ave., L.A., CA) Get the the traditional style nachos, a margarita, and the fajitas.
• In-N-Out (all over So. Calif.) Best burgers and fries around. I live less then 1/2 mile from one of them. Life is good. Quick tip: ask for the fries to be made well done - they are much better that way.

Stupid User Tricks

Here are a few of my favorite "dumb computer user" stories that I've personally observed.

• User removes my nightly backup tape from the tape drive one afternoon, puts his own data tape in the drive (not write-protected), forgets to read from it until the next morning, and then wonders where his irreplacable data went.
• User gets an account opened on new workstation B that shares the same home directories on the file server with workstation A that he has been using. Decides that all these files he's seeing on system B must be a copy of the files he sees on the system A and deletes everything to conserve diskspace. User then goes back to workstation A and wonders where his files went.

Other Stuff

• A library of information for the EE 459Lx (Embedded Systems Design Lab) class.