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I don’t own an Apple because I can’t afford it — more expensive for slightly different hardware. I can’t customize it — for a box which expresses how ‘cool’ you’re supposed to be they all look really similar (you can’t think different if everyone is on a Mac).

I don’t use Microsoft Windows because I can’t fix it — most people aren’t programmers, but the fact that simply knowing one (or being one) can get a bug fixed is awesome. I can’t use it — I can’t work without multiple deskops and sloppy focus. Its just too painful.

I use Linux because I can do anything. I can do just about anything I want.

This means that my semester GPA is a 3.05, or a B average, not too bad. I’m disappointed by the C- in Networks, but it was a “Revenge of the non-programmers” class — everyone who hated programming did well. I’m (obviously) not in that category, nor did I find much of the information useful.

I’m still trying to get my room mate situation resolved. My preferred room mate waited too long to cancel his housing and got his balls caught in a vice by UNCG. Why do I need a room mate? In case you haven’t heard Meg and I are no longer together (though we are still on friendly terms) and she’s moved back to the Charlotte area. While obviously I’m upset, I’m done lamenting over that, and now all I can see is my entertainment system is not longer entertaining. 37+ HDTV downgraded to 21 SDTV. Blech.

I’ve wooted lately, my prize? Why Unlimitted supply of air! For a guy who regualarly does tech support and is in possession of too many computers, that’s a good thing.

I got a full time job lined up, and I start on the first of June, but more on that later. These is enough words for now.

Meg and I are no longer together, so I’m hopefuly going to be rooming with Zach next year. For two months though, I’ll have the apartment to myself. I’m keeping our dog, Corabelle (my little minion), but Meg gets the fish. I need a new TV! Because I’ve now been spoiled by that HighDef thing, and I can’t go back to SDTV and its pitiful 480i resolution. Bah. And I almost had my media center set up just right, too.

Easter was alright. Got the FAFSA filed for my final year of college next year.

I’ve applied to Google’s Summer of Code. My project is entitled “Simplification of Authentication“, as part of Gnome. The gist is that on one machine you say “Allow others to log on via this machine” and on a bunch of others you say “Log on via that machine”. Now you only have one computer to keep up to date with everyone’s user names and passwords, and any computer in your network can use those. Hence the Authentication. Can you do this already? Yes. Can you do it easily, let alone with two clicks? No. Hence the Simplification part. That’s important when you discover you have seven+ logical operating systems:

• Main computer, Ubuntu Linux partition
• Main computer, Microsoft Windows Vista partition
• Main computer, Microsoft Windows Vista virtual machine (so I don’t have to reboot to test something)
• Server
• Netbook
• Girl friend’s computer
• Test computer
• Any other virtual machines I may run from time to time

Being able to have one log on helps tremendously here.

I wrote some patches to clean up Evolution, and remove some of the old libgnome (because libgnome Must Die).

Easter’s coming up. I’m going to Charlotte.

Goodbye.

Current Mood:  sick

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.

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.

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.

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