July 28, 2003
Loro 2002/2003 in 2 Lines
A two line answer to the question "How would you describe Loro in Two Lines?" Curt: "A lidless eye wreathed in flames." Eric Chase: "Yeah, except not!" Lorons, please comment....
Posted on July 28, 2003 06:13 AM
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July 23, 2003
Involvment in Mono and Dashboard
I'm starting to get involved in the Dashboard/Mono scene again. For now I am pretty passive, just reading up stuff and talking to people, but more will come some time in the future. After I finish CS 143: Compilers, I definitely want to contribute to Mono. Hm, maybe I should get Michael to look into Mono, he might like it, and he is really good at Compiler stuff. Today I read through the new Dashboard mailing list and will join...
Posted on July 23, 2003 07:27 AM
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July 23, 2003
Travelling to Germany Tomorrow
Tomorrow I will spend eight hours hours on a train to Erfurt, Germany. The great thing about this is that that means I have eight hours to just read, and another eight hours when travelling back on Sunday. I've not been to Germany too much, so this weekend will be quite an experience. It will also be very stressful for both Nora and me, but we'll manage. There probably will be no updates while I'm gone, because blogging from my...
Posted on July 23, 2003 07:13 AM
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July 23, 2003
Starting on CS 140 Reading
After I finished the Bach book (a review will follow some time today), it is now time to start reading the lecture notes, which does not appear to be too much work. It's been quite some time since I read the text book for the class (2 years), and I have an older edition, so I will have to redo some of that work. But most of my CS 140 preparation will now consist of reading Nachos code and playing...
Posted on July 23, 2003 02:22 AM
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July 22, 2003
I Learnt Something Today
I learnt Something Today: I still have a lot to learn. I actually learnt this yesterday evening, but it is still true. As much as I would like to know everything, it's simply not true. The story continues..... My dad and me drove around in the BMW Z4 yesterday, we took tons of pictures, but are undecided on whether we really like the car (we hate the black version my dad got for the 2 days). Therefore we have to...
Posted on July 22, 2003 09:20 AM
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July 20, 2003
Introducing the Mazda RX-8
I went to a driving training ground on Friday and saw one of the sweetest new cars to be introduced in a long time. The car I am talking of is the Mazda RX-8 which will be introduced this September, and will be for sale starting in November. Seeing just one of these incredible cars is great enough, but yesterday I saw about thirty of them, as Italian car journalists were driving them around an obstacle course. Let me say...
Posted on July 20, 2003 08:28 AM
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July 16, 2003
Reading, Reading, Driving
I've been reading The Design of UNIX Opreating System by Bach recently, I finished the first 150 pages today, which mainly dealt with the file system, and file processing. The book is easy to read, which is a really nice change from TCP/IP Illustrated. For now I've laid Volume 2 away till Friday, when I will hopefully be finished with the Bach book. I will then post a comprehensive review of the entire book, which I can definitely recommend to...
Posted on July 16, 2003 01:39 PM
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July 12, 2003
Dashboard Becoming More Popular
I just found this article by Tim O'Reilly, where he writes about Dashboard. It looks like the program is making good progress, and that important people are starting to notice it and liking the idea. I hope that things continue to go well for Dashboard. I think it's just about time for me to get a running Linux Box and install the thing....
Posted on July 12, 2003 04:04 PM
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July 12, 2003
Much Progress Today
I read around 80 pages of TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2 in the last three hours. This is great news, because I was already planning to stop reading the book for sometime, because it was becoming too difficult. For some magical reason, most of it now seems very clear to me. I hope to read around 50 to 100 pages again tomorrow. In other news, Nora started reading The Testament by John Grisham around the same time I started reading and...
Posted on July 12, 2003 04:01 PM
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July 09, 2003
Network Aware Apps + Dashboard = Great Combination
Tim O'Reilly is undoubtedly right about the importance in having all applications Network Aware, or even better Message Aware. This would mean that applications would support an interface for sending and receiving messages and talking to other interactions. Users do not want to deal with incompatibilities. It should be easy to use your Word Applications to exchange data with others (similar to Hydra). It should be easy to play Games over the Network (our BattleFungus game will support this), and...
Posted on July 9, 2003 07:03 AM
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July 09, 2003
The New SGI Altix 3000 - Nice
"SGI Altix 3000 servers and superclusters are the most scalable Linux® systems on the planet, running a single Linux OS image with 64 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and up to 8TB of memory. The SGI Altix 3000 family takes Linux to new altitudes of scalability and performance." SGI, one of my favorite companies, released a new supercomputer, running Linux. Although I am a fan of IRIX (unparallelled scalability), and do not want it to disappear, I am now very glad...
Posted on July 9, 2003 06:14 AM
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July 08, 2003
Open Government
MIT started a project to provide people with information about the government. I think that this is a great idea, because information, especially about politicians, is central to any democracy. Although I am not able to vote in the United States, I am very much interested in its politics. For all of you that didn't inform yourself about your states and countries politics, now is the time to get educated, so you can cast your vote with a reason other...
Posted on July 8, 2003 10:34 AM
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July 07, 2003
Driver's School and 3 Doctors
Today was the first day of my driving course. For now it is just three hours of theory a day, which is really simple and really boring. My first real driving lesson is on Monday, which is mildly exciting. Overall, the whole driver's license thing is just annoying. I've been to the doctor 3 times, have to take a lesson on First-Aid, 2 weeks of theory, 3 preliminary tests, one final theory test, 9 2 hour driving lessons, 1 practical...
Posted on July 7, 2003 11:38 AM
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July 07, 2003
Finished Part 2 of TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3
I just finished Part 2 of TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3 and it was quite a short read. The second part was about HTTP and NNTP, the former of which I knew a lot about, and the latter of which was only covered briefly. This part was definitely the least interesting of the book, but I had to skip Part 1 (T/TCP) because I had to read Volume 2 first. I am now reading Part 3 (UNIX Domain Protocol) which is...
Posted on July 7, 2003 09:11 AM
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July 05, 2003
Apple's Plan for the iPod
I have a little revelation that I'd liked to share with you. It came to me yesterday. Why is the iPod so important to Apple? The iPod is a large hard-drive that you take with you as much as possible. Nobody would every carry around a large storage device with them all the time, but the iPod gives people an incentive to: it just happens to be an MP3 player. While the MP3 capability is still the main selling point...
Posted on July 5, 2003 02:58 AM
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July 04, 2003
The Music Is Still Alive
I went to a Jazz Festival with Nora, and Martina, and some others. I had more ideas today than in the last few weeks combined, but more about that tomorrow. For now I am happy to say that music as an art still exists. Though things like American Idol and endlessly repetitive mainstream stuff like "In Da Club" have gone a long way in destroying music, it can still be found in some places. The artist was Mike Ottis, an...
Posted on July 4, 2003 03:57 PM
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July 04, 2003
Kew Gardens Is Made a World Heritage Site
According to this BBC article Kew Gardens in London were given World Heritage Status by the United Nations. The reason I mention this, is because I went there when I was in London 9 years ago and still remember the experience. So if you happen to be in London for a few days (like me and Nora this August) go and visit it, especially the Prince of Whales Exhibit, which has had the name longer than the current Prince has...
Posted on July 4, 2003 06:51 AM
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July 03, 2003
Some Advice: 2 comes before 3
I started reading TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3 yesterday, to prepare for Volume 2. Apparently Volume 3 does require Volume 2, so I started reading it today. For anyone who wants to buy the books: buy them in order. Reading Volume 1 (The Protocols) was easy, now I'm reading The Implementation and I am a bit scared. I hope it won't be too difficult, it is about 1100 pages, making it the longest book I have ever read, and at 15000...
Posted on July 3, 2003 09:40 AM
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July 03, 2003
"Spring" Cleaning on my Windows Desktop
My Desktop PC has become so slow that it is completely unusable. While this is mostly due to the defects of Windows 98, it is also in need of a thorough cleaning. I've been spending the last few hours deleting unncessary files, uninstalling programs, and messing with startup files and some registry stuff. The speed improvments are moderate for now, there is still too much stuff running in the background. I already cleaned out all the Spyware, so there is...
Posted on July 3, 2003 09:25 AM
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July 01, 2003
News from the Ximian Open Source Front
It looks like Nat Friedman is working on a really interesting project called Dashboard. It has a todo list and looks very very interesting, but unfortunately I have little experience with the neccessary frameworks. For now the only thing I can do is read the progress reports. It seems like there are some very interesting search algorithms that could be used. Hm, maybe I need a Linux Box again. My Home PC seems like the perfect choice, it even had...
Posted on July 1, 2003 02:00 PM
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July 01, 2003
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1
I finally finished TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 by Richard Stevens - what a great book. I have read books about TCP/IP before, and had quite a bit of knowledge about the topic before starting the book, but Stevens method of showing the actual transactions using tcpdump made everything much clearer, than anything I had read before. I spent a bit of time looking at what the tcpdump output for my own network, which was quite interesting. I think that I...
Posted on July 1, 2003 01:08 PM
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