return void;

ok so it’s been a while since i last blogged. note for the record that i usually won’t blog on the weekend, as that is when i am either out of town or too busy with crystal.

lemme catch you up to some stuff.

on saturday, we went to the heb on dezevala so i could buy groceries, and specifically that one because it was rumored that they sell jolt 2x. i should also point out that it was raining that day. on the way into the store, we noticed a bill in the middle of the road. it was soaking wet, and no one was around. so i made a mad dash for it, snagged it and ran inside. when i opened it up, it was a $100!! needless to say, this money HAD to be spent that very afternoon. thanks to someone else’s misfortune, i am now the owner of the Cowboy Bebop dvd and the Day of the Dead dvd. crystal bought some girlie movies, shakespear in love and in a league of their own. btw, paltro(sp)’s boobies are pretty small in that movie.

i have slept only 7 hours in the last 2 nights. i have a tech physics 2 test today, and the networks assignment due tomorrow. i also have a networks and parallel processing quiz on tomorrow as well. needless to say, i look and feel like a zombie out of day of the dead.

i will be home to work on my networks all night, as i must be done by 10pm so i can study.

more updates later

success! i have moved up in the food chain. more on this as it develops.

another day another dollar.

this is exactly what they deserve for being the cash whores they are.

i’m going to try and move up on the food chain today, i’ll let you know how it goes when it happens.

also, i figured out today that select or poll can actually be used to find out which socket was closed. if i try to read from the file description and it returns 0, then we got an EOF. i think i’ll need to fix readline to not do the -1 on errors.

i have made a list of cd’s i’ve burned over the years, and so far its at ~200. i’ll post it on my site this weekend when i fix the webforward.

well today was a rather interesting.

first, we had a very long drawn out conversation with the crew about personal hygene. apparently alex asked chris if he could borrow a pair of his shoes to work out in. according to alex, he also said he didn’t have socks and wouldn’t be wearing any. well, it grossed chris out and so it was mentioned when we were chit-chatting before networks. the general consensus is that this is disgusting. alex doesnt find it to be a problem because he said he doesnt sweat much. why don’t you tell him what you think.

also, i discovered a problem i have with select, and i came to the conclusion that it isnt very useful. apparently there is no way to know if a filedescriptor is closed, especially a socket. so i’m trying to find a work around for this.

here’s some interesting comics i found funny:

Hi and Lois – 9/18/03
Real Life Adventures – 9/18/03
Shoe – 9/18/03

im off to see the wizard

hey crystal

i hope you’re feeling better. i also hope you can make it down this weekend, cause after this weekend, the next 2 UT games are in austin, so I don’t wanna drive back three weekends in a row….

but i will take care of you if you come down

also, i didnt talk to trey today, i’d rather do it in private tomorrow.

this weekend’s TODO:
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-finish networks (crapster), needs to do actual file sending
-fix my gentoo box, apparently this problem has been happening with alot of people and maybe i shouldnt be so bleeding edge. to fix this, i should most likely reinstall lilo’s stage3 tarball from the livecd
-do the parallel processing assignment, remember to use the gig* machines instead
-consider moving slack box to gentoo, i’m tired of kernel panics when X runs for too long, i shouldn’t have trusted dropline
-maybe i should buy food this weekend, since im kinda sorta out of everything
-laundry, i hate doing this, they should make clothes that never get dirty

gotta go to OS-2 now, i’ll post more later

hey crystal, today starts another one of those long days.

i wont be back home till 9pm tonight. i have to spend as much time in the dark room as possible.

i have to get to work on this system. i’ll be at the old office today till noon. i have class from 2-3.15. i hope to be able to get in the dark room asap, else i might have to go home and get something to eat.

ima go ahead and make this post now before everyone gets into the office. i’ll prolly post something later before i leave for school.

today’s TODO:
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finish photography prints
start coding on networks assignment
start coding on parallel processing assignment
read over os-2 assignment

So I decided to go ahead and write about my progress on bleech. This project is pretty much only something I work on if I ever have free time, which is practically never. However, I am actually getting somewhere in making it a valuable solution.

Here’s the problems I’ve spotted with AutoGet that I feel should not exist and bleech will one day correct.

It does not auto-detect queue size, so it will make requests that will get turned down.

It does not seem to actually work for long periods of time, especially if the user tries to force it to do something.

It is unbearably slow if the user selects alot of data to add to the AGList.

It does not provide remote administration.

It does not provide a way of allowing other people to administering it, effectivly adding to the list.

It does not act as a bot, so anything you download may/will screw up AutoGet.

The status of requests are poorly managed.

There are not enough statuses to portray the actual states.

There is no way to keep track of what the user/owner actually does. This leads it to simply pasting some text in the channel, which isn’t much of a program. This is supposed to grow and allow new features, and this is something that needed to be adressed.

It seems fairly ineffective in general to use without user interaction. For it to intelligently manage your lists, you have to be monitoring it periodically.

I’m going to stop here, but I will say that bleech may not end up being just an auto-downloader.

TODO:
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Finish RequestQ.pm
Finish irc_dcc_*()
List adding/validating
Finish loading of previous process’ state data
Finish admin tasks (public, privmsg)