4:30 PM - Ugh
I have not been blogging much lately. It's difficult to find time and energy to do little things like blogging.
At the moment, I'm taking a break from writing several journalism assignments that were due last week. I've got two of four done which is quite good. Kirk has been working in 311 the past few days. I chose to come home after my test in microprocessors and meeting afterward about our little AI robot.
My group didn't do the worst this time and I think we owe that to Chris. He did well with the presentation. Next week, we must work on a shame/fame presentation for 30 minutes on Operating System GUIs. John is starting that project and I have to help in person on friday and online over the weekend. Byron and I have been working on flashback, our cross platform backup solution. Right now I've got the webserver working (mostly) and Byron has the scheduler and database code flushed out. The config class is causing the system to crash and it's clearly a pointer problem.
Tomorrow I have an assignment in English 427 due. It's an editing project with a website. I've had the website done for awhile, but I'm having problems printing it and will most likely have to photshop a few screen captures together to get it. I also need to write a letter to accompany it and have answers for the theme of my portfolio which I can't think about right now.
Next week Li wants us to brainstorm on improving linux for the masses. I don't think he's going to like my answers to that. I don't think there are many technical hurdles to linux adoption, more political ones. Linux must be advertised as a desktop and there must be software for it that equates to existing software. Games, productivity, and creative software is severely lacking on linux. Open Office isn't quite there for some people. There is nothing like the adobe creative suite or even business apps like quick books. When WoW and ET:QW runs well let me know.
I've been trying to pull together midnightbsd tasks this month too. We've got the build cluster running and several ports have been fixed. We've been near 2000 ports for some time now. The last run I saw had about 100 broken and a few hundred not tested due to broken depends. The OS itself is another problem entirely.
Users are starting to message me more frequently about JJ bugs and login problems. I got a very confusing email today.
Kirk wants me to push the computer science department more in discussions about magus.