I finished my thesis project prototype system early this morning.
October 07, 2004
A slower day, and the realization of personal growth.
Today's office hours were slow - a much needed break. I fixed two little portability issues with my thesis project, and spent the remaining time planning for the next phase: porting the project to everything that has a CPU. *grin* Linux will be first...
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October 08, 2004
A nice tip...
Via Hipoxia. If you want to connect to an NFS or Samba drive (or probably even FTP or AFS) when you login to Mac OS X, connect to the drive you want, then drag the file '~username/Library/RecentServers' (created after mapping the drive) to your start-up items in System Preferences...
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October 09, 2004
Linux build fails, then the box dies
So so so... I spent several hours yesterday installing all the libraries that I needed for my thesis project. I managed to get the project to compile, and after a couple of frustrating hours to link. Then I ran the program, and the dynamic linker failed to load one of the libraries...
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October 10, 2004
In the lab again
I'll be in the lab again today - big surprise. I'll talk more about that once I get there. Now, a nice tech toy from Griffin by way of /. Once again I'm at the point where I have the source code compiling, but when I run it, the library isn't found. Something with ld.conf...
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October 11, 2004
Found the last bug and squashed it.
Last night I tracked down two major bugs in my thesis project prototype, and made one small performance change. The first bug was due to my Sqlite library not being compiled with the -DTHREADSAFE=1 macro defined...
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October 13, 2004
A blah couple of days
It has been a blah couple of days. I'm mentally and physically exhausted from the push to complete my thesis project system prototype. While I've enjoyed implementing the system thus far, the road ahead is uncertain.I have a midterm tonight in my Formal Language Theory class...
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October 17, 2004
Grueling and unlikable work.
I spent all yesterday grading Quizzes. Today, was spent printing the analysis reports for programming assignment #1; I've taken over 2 hours just on the printing process alone. Now I'll starting the grueling task of grading them all. :( I was planning on having this done by Monday...
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October 19, 2004
A break from grading.
I decided to take a break from grading today. I planned on developing today, but I've been in a bummed out mood all day. I have managed to upgrade a couple of the lab machines and install my thesis project code on them for testing...
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October 22, 2004
Three great films
Three of the best films I've seen lately.
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October 24, 2004
Grading Programs
I've been grading programs all weekend long and just noticed a very interesting trend. It takes me longer to grade programs written in Java; the other programs are written in C or C++. I consider myself to be fluent in the Java Programming Language...
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October 25, 2004
Digital Rights Management and Apple
A few people have linked to this article called "Prepared to be screwed by digital rights management" written by Charlie Demerjian. Overall it is a great rant about how DRM hurts consumers and why that is bad. I take issue with only one point in the article...
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October 27, 2004
Exhale
On Sunday night I finished grading program #1 for the Data Structures & Alg. II class.... *deep sigh*Dr. Jonyer and I didn't talk about the system last week, so I had a few days of self-directed development on my system...
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October 28, 2004
A Vote For Kerry Afterall?
Tonight Maryna and I went to a lecture at TU. The presentation was by Howard Hongju Koh, the Dean of Yale's Law School. His presentation centered around the Supreme Court and its interaction with International law. Specifically, there were three cases that he covered in some depth...
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October 31, 2004
SuSE 9.1 + LDAP authentication issues.
Over the summer I helped an undergraduate student setup an LDAP server in the lab, we had clients authenticating against it. There were two issues with the server. He didn't have SSH authentication working, and user directories weren't being created when LDAP users logged in...
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