Socks for all

Well, I’ve reduced UNCG‘s schedule to the Halting Problem. And apparently this semester is halts (is finaly over), and I’ve passed all my classes, hooray! Not that I was expecting to fail, but I wasn’t really expecting to be this consistant:

This is the first time I’ve made a B in any of my Computer Science classes, let alone two. Theory of Computation was difficult, but the sore part was just the crappy book. Really crappy. Human-Computer Interface Development wasn’t really what I thought it would be. I was expecting a class full of wonder in how to design UI and it didn’t really feel like a 500 level class. To top it all off, the whole emphasis on the class was on how only the user mattered, not how hard it was to code, and our final project had to be written in a Java Applet. What a mistake.

*UPDATE: Apparently, this should be a B+, but there were some e-mail issues; My updated grade will have to wait.

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My system had a little oops today. Which is kind of like a BSOD, only your system MIGHT still work. Mine didn’t. I’m kind of sad though, because this is just a few days after I turned off OOPS reporting for some reason, probably in search of more performance. I wont do that again, in case something happens again.

On the up side, my machine can suspend now! Turns out it wasn’t a problem with Linux, but a problem with the BIOS, which could cause “64-bit operating systems with more than 4 GB or more of RAM to fail to resume from suspend”, which I guess explains why my machine shipped with the 32-bit version of Windows Vista. A quick BIOS flash later, and everything worked on the second try (I have no idea what happened the first time).

I’ve got one more exam left, but so far I’ve made a B- in Biology, and a B+ in Theory of Computation. Still waiting for the last 3 grades.

Uncategorized computer, school

Today I discovered that the United States postal service will not forward credit cards. This is a good idea, but I didn’t know it, so that’s causing me problems now. So its Christmas time, except not. I don’t feel the holiday cheer this year. Maybe its the recession. Maybe the recession is just a scapegoat for everything right now. I was supposed to have a productive day today, and didn’t get half my todo list done. I’m sure that if the economy were strong I would have gotten everything done (yeah right).

I’ve got exams coming up, today was reading day – or a day with no classes; exams start tomorrow. I’ve got Biology tomorrow, but its at noon so I’ve got time to study before. Recently I’ve found myself to be very apathetic towards most of my classes. Perhaps its that “senioritis”. I need to cut that shit out next semester, but its always worse in the Spring. Hope to change that this year.

Uncategorized christmas, school

Today Meg and I went to the gym after we discovered that we wouldn’t be gaming with friends today – we also got groceries and lots of meat.

I spent the rest of the day working on an older project that I started almost a year ago. After realizing that it just doesn’t compile with the newer GCC (that was rather irrating to make changes and all of a sudden it doesn’t work, but should) AND getting it to (kind of) work with autotools, I set off to do the real work – rewrite data sources into XML from the stupid dinky format that was earlier.

I thought XML was supposed to make things easier. Then again, I thought C++ was supposed to do the same thing. Actually libxml++ isn’t that bad, I think its just more a matter of I don’t know what I’m doing so I get all these extra results to parse through. Also, there wasn’t too much documentation to find on the website or on the web. Surely there’s a way to say “return all subchildren of this node WITH A MAX DEPTH OF ONE”. Anyway, I ended the day with fewer features than when I started with, but the rest should be easy to insert now. Perhaps if all goes according to plan I’ll code drop in a month or two.

This makes two days in a row that I’ve done something productive.

Current Mood:  accomplished

Uncategorized c++, programming, xml

If all goes according acording to plan, then you should be reading this post of livejournal, even though I’ve typed it on my new WordPress blog, located here. I’m actually using wordpress to manage all of my website as I’m not an artist and have poor design skills (mighmos.org actually redirects you to the blog now).

Uncategorized site maintenance

I’ve just set up wordpress, I’ve given up trying to write my own site, as I’m obviously no good at it. WordPress to the rescue!

Uncategorized site maintenance