Anyone know why I couldn’t get to the entire CSH subnet for a few hours tonight? I was able to get to Grace, but I couldn’t get to any machine on floor (including my own). I was thinking it was some kind of power-outage in the building but my uptime disagrees. Was there some kind of planned RIT maintenance I missed out on?
geek
Pillow Epiphanies are always the best.
I hate going to bed with bugs in my code. It has always bothered me so much. So I give up on debugging this off-by-one bug just before my last update, resolved myself to go to bed, brushed my teeth, turned out the lights, got in bed, and sat there for 5 minutes fuming that I had that bug.
Thankfully, a stroke of genius occured and I bolted out of bed, solved the problem, and now the function seems to work perfectly (at least with my test data). I love when that happens.
Good Night….
….or Morning…. I was in a pretty decent code groove tonight. When I surfaced from it it was 6am and I had reasonable functionality. There were distractions along the way, but they never managed to fully derail me.
I did start watching Strange Brew in the background, but it was sucking away too much of my attention so I had to stop it. :)
While I was working I had Mozilla building from source in the background. I have had trouble building it under FreeBSD in the past (mostly to my ignorance), but I had a successful build tonight that hauled ass. :)
you can dress the pig up…..
I downloaded the free version of QNX Realtime Platform today. What a piece of shit. :) It allegedly supports all of my hardware, but the only thing to actualy work is my video. Network, Sound, USB, and more all fail to work. The GUI is pretty nasty, also…..
I had always had a negative impression of QNX after hearing other developer’s horror stories. I at least had hoped that the OS was fun to use if it sucked to code for. I don’t know why this OS would ever get used on anything but low-level embedded stuff.
Take us to Defcon 2
Ok, I understand the concept of Beta Testing and all, but every once in awhile you get a bug that really shakes the shit out of you. Today I discovered a bug in a product I am testing, and it was a fairly serious security bug. This is a product I have been testing for several months, and to think that my machine has been fairly wide-open that time is frightening.
Oh well, the bug has been reported, and hopefully we will be able to track it down soon. Luckily, this product isn’t public, or it would be some serious egg on the face of the company.
Damn Mail!
The rest of my stupid iButton kit still hasn’t arrived.
I think they just eyeballed this concrete thing here
That is just an example of some of the amazing construction-worker banter that occured just outside my window early this morning.
I went down to the post office to snag my iButton stuff, but there were apparently two shipments, and this shipment only included the Java-Powered Crypto iButton. Unfortunately, this is useless to me until the other shipment comes in. :)
Going Postal
My iButton SDK is sitting in the RIT post office, but the bastards closed before I got out of class, so I have to wait until tomorrow to pick it up.
I guess i will take advantage of this time to get my homework done for the rest of the week. Toys like this tend to suck my attention away for awhile. :)
Captain Jack will cook your fries tonight
Finally starting to feel ‘moved in’ here at CSH. I am not completely done, but I am definately mostly done. The campus is so busy with freshmen and parents that it is almost not worth it to try and move around… :)
I tried to reinstall FreeBSD a little while ago and managed to completely scrog my partition table in the process. I thought I managed to almost completely lose all my data, but some creative fdisking got me back in working order. Perhaps I will use an idiot-proof tool like PartitionMagic to create my FreeBSD partition later.
So I am just chilling now, relaxing after a fairly stressful 24 hours.
Mozilla
Mozilla. For all the shit it catches in the press, I am amazed at how stable and useful it is. I have been grabbing the nightly builds for some time now, but since I have been home on my dad’s machine, I have been using it exclusively (because my dad doesn’t want NS installed; he is an IE weenie now).
Anyway, it rarely crashes on me (remember, it isn’t even beta yet), and it screams. I can’t wait until this is rock solid.