March 31, 2004
What would SCO do?
I am currently reading Open Sources and found the following passage in the first chapter: The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) has gone from a leading Unix vendor to an afterthought in the span of a couple of years. SCO, the company, will probably find a way to survive, but will its flagship product, SCO Unix, be another casualty of Open Source? We now of course know what happened to SCO and how they are suing everyone in order to save...
Posted on March 31, 2004 06:30 PM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 31, 2004
The Irony of Copyright
I am currently reading Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig. The book is about Copyright and the Public Domain in the internet age and available as a free download under a Creative Commons license. The book mentions an H. G. Wells story called The Country of the Blind that I found online at a site called the Litrix Reading Room. Ironically the story had the following disclaimer: The text of this work is in the public domain and is not copyrighted....
Posted on March 31, 2004 04:58 PM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 30, 2004
Back at Stanford
I'm back at Stanford, and classes today have been very interesting. I am massively jetlagged and not even trying to fight it, but instead using it to catch up on sleep. I slept 13 hours yesterday, and am off to bed again, to sleep until 10 am tomorrow, for another 14 hours, if I don't wake up early. Goodnight everyone. Expect more blogging soon....
Posted on March 30, 2004 08:20 PM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 20, 2004
About to Leave
My shuttle is leaving in 20 minutes. I am about done with packing, and I'm really looking forward to coming home. Now for the long flight......
Posted on March 20, 2004 10:08 AM
| Permalink
| Comments (1)
| TrackBack
March 19, 2004
A Day 'till the flight
I bought and borrowed textbooks for next quarter, and actually only had to purchase one book. I have been ironing and packing for my flight which will leave at 2:30 pm tomorrow. I have also been working on getting a working copy of our Nachos project, which I now finally have. In order to make much more progress I will need my Assignment 3 grading results, to see what parts I will have to fix. I also submitted my AP...
Posted on March 19, 2004 11:17 PM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 19, 2004
A Day To Relax
I got up at at 5 pm today and did very little but relax, clean up my room, organize my computer files and do laundry. I also mapped out some more details of my research project and am now looking for a Nachos backup that has all my assignment 3 code and no assignment 4 code, because fixing that code would just needlessly complicate everything. Maybe Travis has this. Tomorrow will be spent doing a lot of last minute tasks...
Posted on March 19, 2004 03:44 AM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 18, 2004
MTAmazon problems
So cgi.stanford.edu cannot reliably handle the MTAmazon plugin. This is because cgi is probably the weakest machine I have ever seen, with very little memory, and I cannot wait until it is replaced with something that is genuinely useful. For now I will have to concentrate on getting the entire design to work, and then just concentrate on actual blogging rather than redesigning....
Posted on March 18, 2004 02:03 AM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 17, 2004
Blog Redesign and Name Change
Now that I am done with finals I am working on redesigning my blog. A very early prototype can be found here. Be aware that most of the links do not really work, and that I still need to mess with the color scheme. However, right now, I need 3 things: A name for the weblog Something to put in the top right corner, three lines of text describing the blog in a cool way Your feedback on the design...
Posted on March 17, 2004 05:02 PM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 16, 2004
Narrow Focus in Research Projects
I have been thinking about my project quite a bit more while studying for CS 140 and have worked out a lot of details. With something like this there is always the urge to include more and more things. That is an urge that is important to resist, as a project grows in scope it becomes exponentially harder to complete it. For something that is meant to be summer research it is best to write everything in a modular way...
Posted on March 16, 2004 08:03 PM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 16, 2004
Distributed Shared Memory
I think I will spend some time (either next quarter, or over summer), extending the VM assignment of Nachos. In addition to paging to Disk, I want it to be able to page to a different physical Machine on the Network. Though this is generally not too useful (less efficient than VM), unless both Nachos are on the same machine, when it becomes redundant, it would be an interesting design and programming exercise. This would of course be combined with...
Posted on March 16, 2004 04:34 PM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 16, 2004
Philosophical Deadend
I wasted this afternoon on weblog designing and philosophical discussions. It got to the point where I could not sleep because of being aggravated about the argument. My neighbor tried to argue that it was not legitimate to abridge the right of an individual to save a million lives, and that negative rights were inherent and unalterable. While I believe that there must be unalterable rights that cannot be violated, I do not believe that these are created out of...
Posted on March 16, 2004 03:18 AM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 14, 2004
Sand in my Shoes
Yesterday I finally spent some time outside, with no more programming for the quarter. Next quarter I will try to be outside as much as possible, which should work well, because I will not have programming classes. I might also start taking my laptop outside, though my battery is getting pretty weak. We went to half-moon bay at around 10:30 am and ran into some bad traffic, only to realize that the beach was completely foggy. We lay on the...
Posted on March 14, 2004 08:04 PM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 12, 2004
The last few days
The last few days have had some of the nicest weather I have ever seen at Stanford during winter quarter. The sun was shining outside while I was sitting in my room from Friday to Thursday. I got very little sleep, but "finished" 2 projects. My CS 161 project went OK, though there was a slight possibility of doing extremely well, at a time cost that I was not willing to commit. I think that it will hopeful go well...
Posted on March 12, 2004 11:21 AM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 08, 2004
The Legend of Loro
The Stanford Magazine's recent article on inscrutable Stanford traditions, featured the following excerpt on Loro's dorm theme: [T]he theme has some relationship, however tenuous, to the name of the dorm. Not so for Loro House, which earned kudos last year for its out-of-nowhere theme, Sean Conneryyes, the actor. What better rallying cry than screaming Sean Connery or Free Scotland [one of his tattoos]? says senior Felicia Estrada. Indeed. Weve come a long way since Branner sucks. Nothing can sum up...
Posted on March 8, 2004 11:51 AM
| Permalink
| Comments (1)
| TrackBack
March 07, 2004
Coding until the Deadline
I have a Genetic Sequence Matcher for CS 161 due at midnight on Tuesday and a File System for CS 140 due on Thursday. I have programmed my part of the sequence matcher and hope that my partners will finish the rest. CS 140 is going to be a lot worse. We are still working on getting many basic functionalities to work, but unfortunately that will leave us with a few more parts of the assignment in addition to a...
Posted on March 7, 2004 04:44 AM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 02, 2004
It's a Beautiful Day
Today's weather at Stanford was the most beautiful in weeks. I am finally done with CS 161 homework, a class I have enjoyed a lot less than I would have hoped too. Fortunately my other classes have been amazing and have completely made up for everything. But walking around in the sun has made me remember that there are other things in life than classes. I am definitely looking forward to break, and the next few weeks will be an...
Posted on March 2, 2004 06:22 PM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 01, 2004
MT Plugins
This thread will be a collection of MT plugins that I am thinking of adding. Please feel free to comment with suggestions, and I will use this as an online list of plugins I find interesting that I will update in the future. MT-Outliner: Imports your blogroll into Movable Type BookQueue: Uses MTAmazon to provide listings of currently read books MTAmazon: Gives attributes for using Amazon's content on the blog, will mainly be used for BookQueue More will follow, especially...
Posted on March 1, 2004 07:59 PM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 01, 2004
Neat Google Trick
I just realized that Google can give definitions of words using define: word syntax. define: blog brings up the definition of what a weblog is. Though this service still has some quirks with varying search results (blog shows up, while weblog does not), it is quite useful. I should really read Google Hacks, a great book for finding other cool ways to making full use of all of Google's capabilities....
Posted on March 1, 2004 11:24 AM
| Permalink
| Comments (0)
| TrackBack
March 01, 2004
European Food
I have been trying to fall asleep for the last half hour but have been unable to. I have been thinking about all the amazing European food I could be having at home, which has kept me awake. I haven't had European food for almost two months now, and I don't know how much longer I can survive without it. I would love to have Pizza Cardinale or Pizza Salami, Pasta Carbonara, real bread with real butter on it, with...
Posted on March 1, 2004 03:19 AM
| Permalink
| Comments (2)
| TrackBack