The Design and Implementation of laffer1

Another professor has finally put my grade up. I got a C in journalism. I can live with that considering I missed 150 points due to my dad's hospital stay. I just needed a C for my minor.
(writing)

Now if nancy will just post my techincal editing grade!

I got an A in Intro to Microprocessors and a B+ in Software Engineering.

I'm taking stats 360 in the spring. For Fall, I'm taking COSC314 (discrete 2), as well as, geography, philosophy, and history courses. I'll drop philosophy if I can get into computer documentation. Still waiting on that.

I only need two of those courses, but I might as well go full time in the fall.

I just got this e-mail about project glassfish. It asked the question, "What is project glassfish for you?"

It's something that doesn't run on my operating system.

With Sun, everything is going open source, but they don't take patches upstream from other operating system vendors. Sure I can see the code, but I can't actually use it on anything but Linux or Solaris. What is the point?

Isn't this great!  I'm playing with Microsoft's Windows Live Writer.

I'm still waiting for grades from most of my professors, however I did get one. Surprisingly, I got an A in Microprocessors. The professor was quite generous.

Finals week starts now. I just completed my English Portfolio with the exception of the personal statement for the front. Tomorrow, like every day this week will be quite busy.

I keep telling myself just one more week and this semester ends.  Let's hope it gets over quickly.  I'm quite sick of this.  I started working on import Bind 9.4.2 today and it's a mess right now. 

My group members haven't been doing much with flashback. I find that quite annoying. I managed to get backup working tonight and add some bsd extensions. I'm very happy about that. I still need to comment it (a lot more) and finish the web interface.

I haven't filled in what's going on with my dad.  I don't want to go into everything in a blog, but he had surgery last Monday.  It's been a rough go.  I'm hoping to get back into things this week. 

I just got done watching Rush Hour 3.  I really needed a good laugh after the shit I've dealt with lately.  The movie ended very poorly, but most of it was pretty good.  These movies never did have good endings.

I spent most of the day on FlashBack.  It's a backup program I'm writing with Byron and Chris for my Software Engineering course.  I've been writing a webserver and interface for it to function.  I had to avoid working on it due to my father's health problems.  Now it's time to play catch up.  I don't like that.

My father went to the hospital yesterday after experiencing another heart attack. The initial plan was to perform surgery yesterday, but due to his previous surgery near March 6, he was on plavix (sp?). This means they have to wait for that to clear the system which puts him at risk for clotting. He's in the hospital for at least 8 days. They plan to operate on Monday.

Here's a list of my favorite games ever. I don't know why I am doing this, but I am. ;) 1. Super Mario Bros. I have more time with mario than any other game in existence. When I got my first game console in 1988, this was the game I played over and over again. I bought it for my gba, snes (all stars) and even my wii. 2. Doom This has to be the best FPS ever! dmc.wad forever 3. Tie Fighter. I love this game. I had it for DOS and Mac OS! You do not know the power of the dark side! 4. Enemy Territory. It's time to save the world or conquer it. online multiplayer FPS and even free 5. Age of Empires II. I could play this for 6 hours at a time. 6. Street Fighter II . Knee High Kick! 7. Top Gear. One of the best racing games I've played. (SNES) 8. Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator. I've broken two joysticks on this game! 9. NBA Jam. Is it the shoes? 10. lakers vs celtics and the nba playoffs (EA , genesis)

I found this interesting blog entry on creating a graph of the rc script run order.

http://www.links.org/?p=310

Now, one can just run rcorder with the directory path to see the actual runtime used by the system, but the graph is still very neat. This should be usable on MidnightBSD as well as FreeBSD. Our order is a little different.

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.

It's been almost 36 hours since I last slept. I still haven't dozed off yet. I think I can in a few minutes.

I had trouble getting to sleep last night. I went to bed around 2 a.m. and found myself up for a minute or two around 7 a.m., but fell back asleep. I woke up at 2:30 p.m.

That's a lot of sleep. That means I missed both of my classes today.

To top it all off, we didn't get into SoC. Google told me I have to have big corporate backers or be something they use to get in. I have neither.

One aspect I did not find useful was the vague info on the password file format for cvs.

CVSROOT/passwd should look like this

username:encryptedpass:unixusertoimpersonate

There is also a readers and writers file that control access to the repository.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=55659&highlight=cvs+pserver

This covers cvs pserver setup. Normally, it would be insane to setup pserver. However, ohloh only supports pserver cvs setups.

I've setup a test pserver on one of my boxes to see how well it's going to work out. Down the road, it would make more sense to create a jail or setup a new box for this. EMU is out of the question since 2401 is blocked. (port for pserver)

I'm writing this on my Nintendo Wii. While that might not be amazing, I just learned from opera.com that the Wii supports USB keyboards for Input on the Internet Channel. I've successfully connected an Apple keyboard to the back of my Wii. It's one of the white keyboards (previous generation).

I'm also using an Apple keyboard extension cable with it.

This is great. So far, I haven't figured out how to hit OK as return just adds a newline in the box. Still, It's impressive.

I found this interesting blog entry on the differences between the two make. (freebsd vs gnu)

http://www.wgdd.de/?p=28

This just hit me with a project I was writing for class on bsd and everyone else was on linux. ugh. I just went with gnu make.