The Design and Implementation of laffer1

So now P-H has a water main break.  That means no bathrooms on this side of campus that are convenient.  I went over to the student center for lunch and now I feel like crap.  I ordered a cheese pizza but found some ham in one piece.. the other three were ok.  This is the second fucking time i've found ham in my food lately.  My breadsticks and cheesecake were ok at least.  I ended up picking up a starbucks double shot and some naive water... on the way back.  Of course when they go through me i have a problem. 

the website was up at least.  I got some of the math crap downloaded for review on my work computer. 

I've got 4.6 hours left before my test.  How lovely for me.  :)

I can't study for my math test. the my emich portal is down because of too many registrations! SON OF A BITCH

I don't want to register. Someone is an asshole.

I got my assignment turned in and it sounds like i didn't need to handle multiple clients! DAMN! I'll find out for sure when she schedules demos.

I got my paper for lit written already. It was the fastest I've written one. I don't like it but its 2.5 pages of somthing to turn in!

I hope Caryn is feeling better. My prof and a number of students were sick today as well. Lots of coughing.

I've still got a damn math test tonight.

I spent two hours on a stupid bug again.  With my homework assignment, the gdb output was giving me a SIGBUS with a pthread function i wasn't calling.  I did rediculous debug statements trying to figure it out.  In fact I just turned it in with a few :(

Anyway, the stupid problem was that i wasn't always passing a string for the username but always trying to strncpy it!  I assumed it was a problem with threading for a time.  At least i got something turned in.  I was able to use two accounts simultaneously with it too.  (same accounts even) 

It was rather fast too.  Finally, the adb debugger on solaris sucks really bad.  gdb is much easier to use and gave meaningful output. 

At least the assignment is turned in.

One of the worst movies ever made is on iTunes... Boat Trip! Dear God no! Manos is worse but its not that far off.

I got GM on this one:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=228133&cid=18492273

This programming assignment is so annoying. I have to write an ATM using C + TCP sockets and since it must handle multiple requests on the server end, I'm using pthreads.

I just finished writing the deposit function for the server. I've still got to write withdrawal and transfer functions. I originally calculated that I should be on the client piece today. This isn't so good.

Most of the functions are similar but with the locking i have to do since its multithreaded it makes it a big hassle. Everytime I write a function, i take a few minute break. If I don't, I'll go nuts!

I just made some cookies using a betty crocker mix.  First time I've tried to bake in a few years.  They didn't come out too bad.  I don't usually make peanut butter cookies.

My server is more than half done.  (for homework)

I'm watching some ds9 episodes. 

http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/quotas/index.ws

Partitioning IS NOT A DISK QUOTA.

Yeah i know terrible. 

As usual I proved once again I suck in math.  This time I had to withdraw from stats.  I was stuck with a limited number of classes I could sign up for, but it was also very stupid to sign up for 2 math courses, the network course from hell, work and try to maintain an Operating System at the same time.  WTF was I thinking?

Apparently godaddy gives away SSL certs to open source projects.

https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl_opensource.asp?ci=5988

I'm not sure if we really need one for MBSD.  It would have been nice to know for JJ but what can I do now :)

Adam suggested I get one for MBSD but I don't know if i want to "waste" the ip on that right now.  JJ already uses SSL on the main IP.

I'm amazed by the number of posts just journal is generating these days.  In the first three months, I think we've done more than all of 2004 for users and posts.  Sad isn't it? 

I may have to allocate some cycles to two issues with JJ. 

1. Fixing the picture feature.  (remove and memory leak)
2. Adding a password reset form since I get that request a lot. (if you forget.. you can reset them in the preferences now if you already know it.

Yes!  Freedom of speech!  A judge actually ruled parents are responsible for their children and can use filters!!!!!!!!!!  

+1 freedom
-1 assholes

http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3667201

The dark times... the emperor... All well. i've had like 4 security vulnerabilities in like 6 months!  Kiss my ass! 

I just had a 12 pack container break and drop all my pop to the ground outside.  One of the cans was punctured and started shooting pop all over hell.  Damn Coke! 

Here's a site with mirrors of CVS for most of the BSD projects including MirBSD, DF, Open/Free/Net, etc. (everyone but MBSD)

http://www.allbsd.org/

I managed to get WINE working on MidnightBSD.  So far I've installed Netscape 4.5 (minus real player as it died on that step) and Lotus WordPro.  The full smartsuite package does not install, but Word Pro and 123 appear to.  Some fonts are missing with the basic install that are handy and there are a few bugs.  MidnightBSD does not have the latest WINE though.  I may post a screenshot later

I'm still building ports.  Caryn and I went for a drive.  Its actually sunny in Michigan for a change!  I've got quite a few packages built.  This should help significantly with MBSD adoption.  Many new users have experienced problems with our old packages.  The libc bump broke them.  Of course i'll need to test these packages on another box.  There are still several ports with problems.  I've been fixing what I can as I go along. 

I don't feel like sharing this in the mbsd blog.  I am ready to rm -rf /usr/mports today.  Things are not working well building the packages.  I've found a lot of possible issues with mports.  For whatever reason, the packages are not ending up on the isos even though its a very simple cp operation.  Quite annoying.

I tried the Etoile live cd with little success.  The linux kernel freaks out on the old HP I tried it on.  (celeron 700mhz 128mb ram)  I then tried qemu on MBSD.  gdomap crashed and several other network services so I couldn't login to gnustep or etoile desktops.  I figure networking wasn't running in qemu.  I'm no qemu expert.  Normally I'd just try it in VPC in windows at this point, but my desktop has been building packages all weekend.  I had to whack /usr/local and /usr/X11R6.  I don't have a usable environment on there at the moment.  I write this on my PC laptop.  (in mbsd of course)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6409411.stm

According to this article, mother's day was started by a woman who spent the rest of her life fighting the commercialism of it.  That would piss me off too.