I thought this semester would be somewhat more relaxing since I'm a full time student now and I have time to concentrate on my assignments... then I went to my Operating Systems II class yesterday and got the first part of our 3 phase project: implement our own virtual machine...
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February 04, 2004
It snowed, and I had my first test in OS2 today... there were no surprises here, and I think I was fairly well prepared for it, which is a good thing.Maryna blew me off tonight to do her homework - and I'm proud of her for being so dedicated. *grin* So I'm in the lab tonight...
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February 05, 2004
Hmmm... my network programming assignment is almost done, now if I could just pick a topic for my term paper in Computer Organization & Architecture, and get somewhere with the reputation system for the grid, and get some more reading done...
February 06, 2004
I feel a loss of direction in life...
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February 08, 2004
Stories from an Iraqi ISP operation. Very interesting.Also cool.
February 09, 2004
I am up late *slash* up early working on my pre-proposal for my term paper. I read through about 12 papers trying to find a topic that I wanted to cover... it is difficult because the scope must fall under the guise of Computer Organization & Architecture...
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February 10, 2004
Whiners. That is all OSU has in their graduate program, a bunch of whiners. I thought all of the whiners would have quit school after getting their B.S. degrees; guess not. I walked into the lab today, it was nice enough outside to do this for the first time in a couple of weeks...
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February 11, 2004
is now running on all of the lab computers. Sometime I'll figure out how to make sure that it runs on start up...... and an hour later got berated for not asking permission to "make a change in the lab"... nice. Yeah, I'll ask you next time I need to compile something...
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February 17, 2004
The more I read about Steve Jobs, the more I respect him as a businessman and entrepreneur... Jobs, the head of Pixar and Apple computer corporation, the founder of NeXT computer company, is a harbinger and the ring master of the digital revolution. People say that he "has vision"...
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February 18, 2004
SCO versus IBM
Good reading for anyone interested.
February 19, 2004
First Microsoft agrees to reveal Windows source code to government agencies, headline . was on the list to receive the source code. Obviously, the persons at Microsoft who made the decision to share source code with Russians didn't think things through.....
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February 20, 2004
It was warm yesterday, warmer than it has been in some time. I elected to walk to the lab in the morning. There is nothing quite like starting your day with a long, slow, ponderous walk. It is refreshing beyond description. I've started using the ergonomic keyboard regularly now...
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February 21, 2004
I finished my VM at about 1 am this morning. I had finished the fetch and decode phases of the CPU last night, and tonight (this morning...whatever) I finished the execute phase and most of the I/O handler... 1713 lines of code so far (but there isn't much left to do...
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February 24, 2004
Rough week
I didn't get any sleep last night, I don't mean I didn't sleep well, I mean that I didn't go to bed - not even a nap until 2pm this afternoon. I spent from 11pm to 4pm adding some functionality that my system was weak in. It was a good thing too...
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February 26, 2004
I slept like a rock last night and woke up refreshed but a little tired this morning. The main side effect to staying up all Monday night was I didn't have any kind of attention span and I couldn't concentrate on anything...
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