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The singleminded adventures of hcs by hcs at 11:58 PM EST on March 8, 2006
Crossposted from Zophar's Message Domain's Diaries board:

I needed to print out a few things for school, so I decided to head over to the campus computer lab, which is open 24 hours. I was also thirsty, so I decided to purchase a tasty beverage from the vending machines located there. I had no cash, however, only $1 in change (3 quarters, 3 nickels, 1 dime) that I had picked up over the course of the week, 25 cents short of the price of a 20 oz soda. My roommates were asleep so I couldn't bother them for money... so I decided to see if the ATM in the credit union drive through was indeed open 24 hours. It was, so I withdrew $40, grudgingly paying the $1.25 service charge (ironically the same price as the soda I wanted), realizing too late that it gave me two twenties, which no vending machine on earth takes.
So I arrive at the lab, make my printouts, then go over to the vending machines. I find a dime in the change slot of one, and another dime under the same machine. I also find 3 pennies, but these are worthless to such machines. So I put my $1.20 into the machine, to verify my count and hold it until I can find another 5 cents. Nothing is found. So I decide to get my change back, maybe look somewhere else for at least a nickel. The damned thing only gives me back $1 (3 quarters, 2 dimes, and a nickel). So now I'm back where I started.
I then get up the nerve to ask someone for change of a $20. Forunately someone had it (though I wound up with a lot of quarters, apparently she has been running a bake sale).
With my Pepsi in hand I proceeded to this other lab to do my work (I didn't want to return to my dorm, since I'd disturb my roommates, and the main lab is monitored and they don't let you eat or drink in it). There are 5 connected buldings that make up the engineering complex at Rutgers (Fiber Optics, Ceramics, The Engineering Building (really 4 buildings in itself), Hill Center for the Mathematical Sciences, and CoRE (Computing Research and Education, where I have my new job)). Supposedly all of these buildings are locked at 4:00 AM, but my experience has shown that they always forget to lock at least one door. The left door at the top of the handicapped ramp at one entrance to the engineering building was unlocked, so I walked in there and over to Hill, where the Computer Science labs are. Here I opened the door to a lab that is always left unlocked (the door has an electronic lock, but you have to push it closed to get the lock to engage and no one ever does), though I have a card to access it anyway. I turned on the lights, hooked my iPod up to the speakers on a machine, and started typing this up. Now maybe I can get to work, having thus unburdened myself.

Ah, almost forgot, I also found a dime on my way here :)

edited 5:05 AM EST March 9, 2006
by hcs at 12:23 AM EST on March 9, 2006
Instead I am wasting my time reading about the robotic societies of the future. Now I like the idea of technological utopia as much as the next guy, but when the author seriously suggests putting ads on $1 bills... (well, maybe not so seriously)

This is a guy I'd love to talk with...

edited 5:51 AM EST March 9, 2006
by PokeParadox at 1:17 AM EST on March 9, 2006
O_O That's quite a little adventure! I was expecting you to ask someone for change, with them replying "I'm sorry, I have no change." So you ask them where you can get some change "I'm sorry, I have no change." HCS: "Crap... I've appeared to have exhausted your conversation database."
BOINC by hcs at 3:19 AM EST on March 9, 2006
I set up BOINC (attached to Predictor@home) on about 5 machines in the lab here, and it became noticeably hotter, so I stopped BOINC.
I wonder how much the temperature would rise if all 16 3.2 GHz Pentiums 4s with HT were running full tilt...

I did a quick, not terribly scientific test: first I ran two for a few hours, checked the room temperature as reported by the thermostat, then I disabled one and went to dinner. About an hour later I returned, and the thermostat seems to have the same temperature. Maybe this room is just warm...

edited 10:29 PM EST March 9, 2006
ASCII Pong V0.2 by PokeParadox at 10:43 AM EST on March 9, 2006
I have updated it. It has a nice title screen and has AI now.
Download
More Info
by Josh W at 6:37 PM EST on March 9, 2006
the vending machines in my Uni accepts $20 notes. Once i brought a bag of peanuts for $1.80 and it gave me change in 50 cent coins and a couple of 10s
by unknownfile at 3:23 AM EST on March 10, 2006
ASCII pong is complete rux. Hopefully in the next release you will fix that annoying flickering.
by hcs at 4:38 AM EST on March 10, 2006
I've never seen a vending machine accept above $5 bills, and I've only seen that once in a movie theater where 20 oz bottles are $4.50!
RE: ASCII pong by PokeParadox at 4:38 AM EST on March 10, 2006
Thanks... the flickering is annoying! I have been told vaguely how to fix it... the problem is that the command to do so is a bit overwhelming for me atm... so I have to figure out how to use it...
Basically instead of clearing the console window, you have to set the cursor to the beginning again.

I'm going to port the current version to the GP2X before I update the W32 version. (There will be no flicker on GP2X anyhow due to how it renders text.)
I have some ideas for how to improve the AI also.
by PokeParadox at 4:48 AM EST on March 10, 2006
most vending machines here only take change... I don't ever recall seeing one that takes notes.
by hcs at 5:50 AM EST on March 10, 2006
Text mode sucks for anything that needs to be updated in real time, especially if it's more than a single line.
Try this:

cout << flush;
COORD topleft = {0,0};
SetConsoleCursorPosition(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE),topleft);

instead of your call to the system cls.

Also, the default screen size was too damned huge. "Typical" text mode resolution (I'm sure there's a standard name for it somewhere...) is 80x25 characters.

It'd really behoove you to learn, say, SDL and do this in a proper environment where you can sync to the vertical refresh and all. Wouldn't require much of your code to change, either, and it's worth learning.

edited 10:51 AM EST March 10, 2006
by unknownfile at 6:55 AM EST on March 10, 2006
Hooray. March Break at last.

Except I still have a fever, and today is a school day. This means that I have missed a week's worth of work and that I will be forced to do it over the break. I guess my plans for doing stuff are dead =(
by PokeParadox at 6:57 AM EST on March 10, 2006
Thanks... I knew cls wasn't the way to do it. I also knew that it was the cause of the flickering. So thanks for showing me that way.

About the screen size: I didn't realise there was a typical text mode resolution... although I did think there was a maximum before it would start scrolling. I have come to find that this scrolling maximum differs with the system display resolution.

I do want to learn SDL... but not at this time(but possibly soon). But regarding pong, I could have easily done it in oGL, giving the same merits of refresh and such... but I wanted to do it in a pure console window for kicks! ;)
by hcs at 8:42 AM EST on March 10, 2006
Ah, forgot you knew oGL.
VLC = Video LAN piece of Crap by unknownfile at 3:19 PM EST on March 11, 2006
I was watching one of my anime thingys and then, out of NOWHERE!!!!!!!!!

"A problem has occured and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer."

This isn't the first time it's done it, but this time it was unable to recover after the computer rebooted after the Blue Screen of Shit. It just gave me the non-BSoD errors (the ones that say this program has encountered a problem blablabla).

It's been reinstalled, and if it does that again then I am going to eat cheese, which really isn't all that bad.

Anyways, the flu which I've had for the last day has continued to suck. If it isn't better by Monday, then I will swear to never go to New York City again.

Also, I'm Shanks! The friendly chimney sweep! Take me bloomin' hat!

edited 8:22 PM EST March 11, 2006
by unknownfile at 6:00 PM EST on March 13, 2006
became

which is actually a good thing. :P

edited 11:28 AM EST March 14, 2006
by hcs at 3:30 AM EST on March 14, 2006
I need to pick a hostname for my work computer... I'm considering beuctus, but something that's a reference someone else might get might be more fun.

How about corneria? Dual Star Fox and Final Fantasy reference.

And I can put the "In Corn We Trust" thing from 8-bit Theater up :)

edited 9:04 AM EST March 14, 2006
by PokeParadox at 5:30 AM EST on March 14, 2006
I like the Corneria name. :)
by marioman at 8:08 AM EST on March 14, 2006
Yeah, Corneria would be nice. *Goes off to listen to the SNES Corneria theme.*
by Josh W at 10:32 PM EST on March 14, 2006
Well isnt this just great.
I started my computer a few hourse ago and whilst it was starting it BSODed on me. So after a few things i releaized it was a memory problem so i removed, and cleaned the inches of dust that accumulated on them from the CPU fan and reseated them.
So i rebooted and it kept on rebooting when it tried to boot from the disk, so i booted with my boot disk and to my surprise the C drives boot sector has corrupted. This is the disk that contains XP and all of my other programs music, movies, games etc. However my J and D drives seem to be intact so my programming stuff and a few other programs have been saved there. So now im now running 98 off a spare hard drive i keep laying around and gunna try to hope to recover stuff that was on it. I could get some stuff back from backups, but there would still be about 6Gb of stuff missing.

Word of warning: keep your ram clean.
by unknownfile at 5:50 AM EST on March 15, 2006
Well doesnt that just suck.
by hcs at 11:33 AM EST on March 15, 2006
http://rapidshare.de/files/15599922/SUNOST.zip.html

Soul of the Ultimate Nation OST, by Howard Shore (who did the Lord of the Rings soundtrack).
Encoded to MP3 from APEs a friend ripped.
by Prokopis at 12:18 PM EST on March 15, 2006
Josh, try doing some quick consistency checks of your faulty HDD with Partition Magic 8.0 on your win98, or if that won't do anything about the messed up MBR, see if a program called Partition Table Doctor can help. Worst case, there's a good chance you can still pull most of your data off it to save somewhere else with data recovery software like GetDataBack (highly recommend that one).

Kinda funny though; I thought I was the only one plagued by the HDD curse, having suffered such horrors on 3 seperate occasions over the last year alone :/. Ah well, at least through some luck and searching, I managed to walk away with 99.9% of everything I had (and we're talking sizes in the order of hundreds of gigafunkies here) and some newfound insight in the wonderful world of HDD disasters & remedies.

Anyways, nuff rambling. Good luck getting it all back together.
by Josh W at 3:34 AM EST on March 16, 2006
Thanks.

Well it turned out that the MBR was totally ruined with no chance of recovery.

However, with GetDataBack was able to recover all my stuff and siphon it off to other drives. Well now i gotta reformat my dive and copy the stuff back. Well i shouldn't really loose anything now except MS Office, but i can borrow that from my cousin later.
by Mouser X at 10:01 AM EST on March 16, 2006
I've had a HDD go bad on me. I REALLY love it when the data recovery utilities work... Glad it worked out for you. Hopefully it doesn't happen again any time to soon. Mouser X out.
by hcs at 12:07 PM EST on March 16, 2006
.forward

Now I know how to funnel my mail from my SDF account (which gets so much spam it isn't funny) to gmail (which has really nice spam filtration).
This is the sort of thing I probably should have known about years ago...
by hcs at 1:21 PM EST on March 16, 2006
"In passing, it is worth noting that there is a descrepency between the way Linux-PAM handles the const struct pam_message **msg conversation function argument from the way that Solaris' PAM (and derivitives, known to include HP/UX, are there others?) does. Linux-PAM interprets the msg argument as entirely equivalent to the following prototype const struct pam_message *msg[] (which, in spirit, is consistent with the commonly used prototypes for argv argument to the familiar main() function: char **argv; and char *argv[]). Said another way Linux-PAM interprets the msg argument as a pointer to an array of num_meg read only 'struct pam_message' pointers. Solaris' PAM implementation interprets this argument as a pointer to a pointer to an array of num_meg pam_message structures."

Holy. Crap.
I understood it, but WHY, OH WHY introduce this incompatibility? The solutions suggested are
1) only use 1 message
2) create both a pointer to an array of pointers and a pointer to a pointer to an array

sheesh.
by unknownfile at 6:23 PM EST on March 16, 2006
pointy pointing point pointity pointz0r.

Anyways march break is almost finished and I still haven't gone out of the house. (I've been inside for over a week due to the flu, and it's just been reduced to a cold and cough.)
by Josh W at 3:43 AM EST on March 17, 2006
Damn pointers. They only make it that way to annoy you in my oppinion.

I also think that const struct pam_message **msg and const struct pam_message *msg[] should be the same anyway. I use char **argv anyway.

Speaking of C, yesterday...or it might of been a few days ago...anyway i was in a C lecture and the lecturer is sooooooooooo boring. Blah blah blah arrays blah blah gdb debugger.
I've never used such a debugger in my life. If theres a problem with my code i will go though it manually and put in things to help me find problems, no so-called debugger will help.

I got my first assignment for thwe semeseter too. I have to make a command line menu-driven interface that allows the user to enter some numbers and calculate the average of them an such. I shouldnt be complaining, considering it is so simple that i should get full marks.

But i wont probally get full marks anyway. I have to plan it and draw diagrams and such of how the program will work then implement the program algorithm into code...top down i think it is. I can't work that way. I see the assignment instructions and i see code, not diagrams.

I'll think plan it after i've finished writing it.

On other news ive fully recovered my data and got everything working again...but i seem to have 13GB more free than i did before...meh. I might also keep the hard drives i left in it and re-install linux.

Speaking of linux, my university held a Linux Install Fest. They spent the day teaching the straights how good linux is and helping them install it on their PCs. I wonder how many people actually attended. I don't need no people to come in from melbourne to tell me what good linux is.

I had the flu late last year in november. It sucked. I remember not eating, thowing up, hurting alot when i move, being really hot and cold at the same time, a migraine...and loosing 15 pounds.


edited 10:25 AM EST March 17, 2006
by hcs at 4:48 AM EST on March 17, 2006
The student linux users group at my school has an Install Fest every semester. Never been involved, since I run Windows anyway...
by unknownfile at 8:53 AM EST on March 19, 2006
Here's something you don't see everyday.


Yes, BitTorrent is actually going fast.
by Mouser X at 1:16 PM EST on March 19, 2006
My brother usually gets 3-4 times that speed using BitTorrent. So, I don't see why people complain. It's always fast for him... On top of that, with the connection I have, 30k is more than enough, since 30k will already max out my connection. Of course, having a faster connection would be nice... Mouser X over and out.
by Josh W at 6:57 PM EST on March 19, 2006
yeah, ive got up to 300k on upload and download at the same time
by unknownfile at 6:35 AM EST on March 20, 2006
Is that because you are running on a T1 connection whereas I'm using cable? Eh? ;P

Oh yeah, the second download is the next batch of One Piece episodes that I'm downloading.
by Prokopis at 9:59 AM EST on March 20, 2006
Uhhh, yeah, after reading about everyone's connection speed stats here, I just wanted to say I hate you.

That'll be all.
by Josh W at 1:14 PM EST on March 20, 2006
No, i got cable.
I think it is 5Mb/s.
by unknownfile at 1:52 PM EST on March 20, 2006
This test gave my connection speed 1120.6 Kbps.
by hcs at 2:57 PM EST on March 20, 2006
FAQ updated.
Oooh. Ahhh.
by unknownfile at 6:29 AM EST on March 21, 2006
<a href="http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_cg.php?im">
<img src="http://www.nerdtests.com/images/ft/cg.php?val=1812" alt="My computer geek score is greater than 91% of all people in the world! How do you compare? Click here to find out!"> </a>
Hey, "Computer Geek"! by Yoshinkeru at 9:21 AM EST on March 21, 2006
Hey, UF, don't forget, you need square brackets instead of angle brackets for forums like these!

(BTW, I scored a 42)
by Josh W at 5:00 PM EST on March 21, 2006
Heh, nice test. Theres a few others on that site.





edited 10:09 PM EST March 21, 2006
by Prokopis at 7:26 PM EST on March 21, 2006
Let's laff at UF!!1wanwan
by unknownfile at 4:54 AM EST on March 22, 2006
Fuck.

I got Mac OS X 10.4.4 last night and apparently it wouldn't let me install it on my Compaq. I even had to wipe out the hard drive to try to force a boot.

The best alternative would be to move my Shitdows operations over to the Compaq and install Mac OS X on my Medion. However that would mean transitioning my Whinedows software over from a 3 GHz processor to a 1.5 GHz processor. I'm going to think over this later, and hopefully I can start transitioning this weekend.
by PokeParadox at 5:19 AM EST on March 22, 2006


by unknownfile at 6:35 AM EST on March 22, 2006




edited 11:39 AM EST March 22, 2006
by hcs at 8:30 PM EST on March 22, 2006
finally got Linux installed on this machine (had to put it as the first partition, which means I had to make a backup of my WinXP NTFS partition), dual boots successfully with the Win98 I had on here. Going to set up XP at some point, but till then I'll be screwing with FC4 and the like.

Running 64th Note in Wine. Cool stuff.

edited 7:26 AM EST March 23, 2006
by unknownfile at 4:42 AM EST on March 23, 2006
My compaq is now running Windows XP, and it will eventually have Ubuntu running on unallocated space.
Woohoo! by PokeParadox at 6:12 AM EST on March 23, 2006
foobar2000 v0.9 has gone final! :) *Start upgrading*

That includes the SDK *Nudges HCS* any chance on 64th note being made into a native foobar component?

*Braces himself for "bugger off I'm busy!"*
by unknownfile at 6:57 AM EST on March 23, 2006
Bugger off I'm busy!

Anyways, I finished two tests this morning: my French and science tests. Yaaaaaaaay. In a few minutes I'm going to be off to my afternoon classes. When I get home, though, fish is going to start fishing.
foobar rules! by Yoshinkeru at 5:15 PM EST on March 23, 2006
"foobar2000 v0.9 has gone final! :) *Start upgrading*"

Yay! I've been waiting for this! (Why didn't Page Update Checker extension notify me?)

Now I need to wait for all those plugins to upgrade to the new version as well. -_-,, The differnet file formats (NSF, SPC, GYM, the like), and the nifty "scheduler" and "open with" plugins. Hopefully it'll be soon.

by unknownfile at 6:33 AM EST on March 24, 2006
Ascent of the Cloud Eagle is the best song ever.
Re: foobar rules! by PokeParadox at 7:09 AM EST on March 24, 2006
just use the gep plugin.. that covvers a good chunk of the formats (nsf, spc etc)
foobar upgrade by Yoshinkeru at 7:12 AM EST on March 24, 2006
"gep plugin"... Now where exactly is that?
et voila by PokeParadox at 8:01 AM EST on March 24, 2006
http://kode54.foobar2000.org/
by hcs at 9:59 AM EST on March 24, 2006
Got the key to they office today. My boss' words were:
"you got the key"
which sounded videogameish to me :)
by unknownfile at 2:44 PM EST on March 24, 2006
Good job sir!
by PokeParadox at 2:50 PM EST on March 24, 2006
You got the key... but did you have a nice fanfare?
by hcs at 3:48 PM EST on March 24, 2006
the good thing was that the key wasn't consumed when I opened the door with it...
by Prokopis at 8:49 PM EST on March 24, 2006
Use the flashlight, but mind those infernal crawling critters 'cause it attracts them. Oh, and check the desk drawer in the office - there's something in there that you can combine with the yo-yo in your inventory ;).

K, I'll quit while I'm not that far behind now...

edited 1:50 AM EST March 25, 2006
I'm going for it! by PokeParadox at 5:49 AM EST on March 25, 2006
Wish me luck, since I'm going to see if I can port in_cube to foobar2000v0.9...

Erm don't EXPECT me to be successful... it would be wiser to hope. But yeah fingers crossed and all that -> resumes the portage.
by hcs at 7:02 AM EST on March 25, 2006
If I do do any foobar work it'll involve writing a new winamp wrapper.
by PokeParadox at 7:49 AM EST on March 25, 2006
That would nice... it would be great if it could be written in a way that actually passes the tag info properly to foobar.
by Josh W at 8:05 AM EST on March 25, 2006
foobar.

What a strange name for a audio player...at least it isnt called fubar, heh.

speaking of strange things, there is a button on the front of my server which makes it bsod when i press it.
by Prokopis at 3:51 PM EST on March 25, 2006
Must be a new server then. You couldn't manually invoke that feature in the old ones, you see.

Also "foobar" is vapid culture gunk propagating online and off for ~3 decades now that just won't die...

edited 8:52 PM EST March 25, 2006
by hcs at 7:13 PM EST on March 25, 2006
argh, this guy has miniUSFs for download but not the USFlib.
by unknownfile at 8:39 PM EST on March 25, 2006
let's get 'im!
by PokeParadox at 2:23 AM EST on March 26, 2006
What a tool... >_>

I really odn't understand how people can fail to grasp the ooncept that miniUSFs need the lib file.

EDIT: I also don't get how I managed to make so many typos in that last statement.

edited 9:29 AM EST March 26, 2006
More foobar by Yoshinkeru at 5:07 PM EST on March 26, 2006
Eh... Well, PokeParadox, foo_gep kinda works, but kinda doesn't. It's off by one when trying to play the GBS Gameboy files, so it can't play track #1, but thinks track #2 is #1, #3 is #2, and so on. Also, for some reason it won't play the "Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine" GYM musics. foo_gep will have to work for now, but I'll still wait for the others to become compatible.
by unknownfile at 6:17 PM EST on March 26, 2006
sweet, I finally got my router working correctly. Let's hope it stays that way =)
by marioman at 7:25 PM EST on March 26, 2006
>> Also, for some reason it won't play the "Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine" GYM musics.

If it is the archive from Zophar the GYMs are compressed with that funky compression thing from YMAmp. To fix, just download YMAmp, load the GYMs and select the "decompress" option under the track info menu. This will need to be done for each of the GYMs.
by Mouser X at 8:12 PM EST on March 26, 2006
Marioman: The YMAmp compressed files are playbable in Foobar2k. I know this from personal experience. I just don't know what plugin it is that I used to play them. Every single GYM on my PC is compressed through YMAmp, no acceptions, and they played just fine. I guess I could look through my Foobar2k v0.8 folder or plugins and find out which one it was though. I haven't used Foobar in quite some time... If I look, I'll provide an update as to which plugin it is that plays the compressed files. Using that compression, my GYMs are almost always smaller than even the RAR they came from.... As such, I refuse to use any other plugin except YMAmp (unless it can also play the commpressed files).

I just thought it would be helpful to know that Foobar can also play the compressed files, for those who wanted to know.

On a different note, I Googled "Mouser X" and "Mouser_X" recently. My name showed up in a few areas that I've never seen show up in a Google search before. I thought it was pretty cool. :P

With that, I leave again. Mouser X over and out.
by PokeParadox at 12:56 AM EST on March 27, 2006
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Mouser_X&word2=Pok%E9Paradox HAhaha ^vvv^

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Mouser+X&word2=Pok%E9Paradox Awwww :(

Well that is a really strange problem with GEP... I guess it was a "quick" port or something

I also used a different plugin for GYM... bleh...
by marioman at 4:06 AM EST on March 27, 2006
Yeah, I remembered that there was a Foobar plugin that played compressed GYMs. (foo_gym?) However, I did not know if it was the same one that Yoshinkeru is using. I just thought that I would let him know about that potential problem.

By the way, I do not think that the compression there is an official type of compression. If I remember correctly it is some type of ZLib/BZip2 combination. Futhermore, the person that created it did not document the specs so few people know how it works. This is why some players will support it and some won't.

Talk to you later.

edited 1:54 PM EST March 27, 2006
foobar mania! by Yoshinkeru at 7:05 AM EST on March 27, 2006
"foo_gym" Yeah, that's the one. I got that and the others from this nifty little site. Again, hopefully the authors will update those soon.

I also hope one of these days that a better MIDI plugin for foobar will be available. The one I have did alright when I figured out what instruments to set it to, but with the newer version that option doesn't show up, and now the MIDIs sound worse than ever (on foobar).

edited 1:27 PM EST March 27, 2006
by hcs at 4:28 PM EST on March 29, 2006
c=0; while [ $((c)) -lt 256 ]; do ip="128.6.13.$c"; echo "$ip `host $ip`" | grep -v "not found" | cut -f1,6 '-d '; c=$((c+1)); done

The sad thing is that I find this amusing.

new & improved:

c1=0; while [ $((c1)) -lt 256 ]; do ip1=128.6.$c1; if host $ip1.0 | grep -v -q "not found"; then c2=0; while [ $((c2)) -lt 256 ]; do ip2=$ip1.$c2; echo "$ip2 `host $ip2`" | grep -v "not found" | cut -f1,6 '-d '; c2=$((c2+1)); done; fi; c1=$((c1+1)); done

bash script to give a listing of every host name on 128.6.*.* (Rutgers), if 128.6.*.0 has a name.

A few interesting sets of names:
128.6.4.45 oracle.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.4.46 revelation.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.4.47 prophecy.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.4.48 foretell.Rutgers.EDU.

128.6.4.54 abbott.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.4.55 abbott-rac.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.4.56 costello.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.4.57 costello-rac.Rutgers.EDU.

128.6.5.15 warlords.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.16 qbert.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.17 zaxxon.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.18 pong.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.19 millipede.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.20 tron.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.21 pacman.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.22 frogger.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.23 centipede.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.24 joust.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.25 asteroids.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.26 galaxian.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.27 breakout.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.28 mrdo.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.29 gravitar.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.30 foodfight.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.32 arkanoid.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.33 defender.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.34 galaga.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.35 gauntlet.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.36 tetris.Rutgers.EDU.
128.6.5.37 qix.Rutgers.EDU.

128.6.13.89 phuket.rutgers.edu

128.6.13.2 romulus.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.3 remus.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.4 spanky.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.5 alfalfa.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.6 sotm.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.7 hold-13.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.8 darla.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.9 busboys.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.10 thorogood.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.11 brighteye.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.12 u2.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.13 foghat.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.14 skynyrd.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.15 airplane.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.16 anubis.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.17 tangerine.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.18 ratt.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.19 zeppelin.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.20 parsons.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.22 genesis.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.23 foreigner.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.24 gabriel.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.25 acdc.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.26 igor.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.28 anthrax.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.29 kinks.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.30 travers.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.31 birds.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.32 seagulls.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.33 lcsr-13-gw.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.34 terrapin.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.35 traffic.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.36 marillion.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.37 tubes.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.38 phoenix-13.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.39 megadeth.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.40 steely.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.42 rhea.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.44 sea-anemone.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.45 remus1.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.46 metallica.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.47 brinkley.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.48 ozzy.rutgers.edu.

128.6.13.90 prophet.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.91 prediction.rutgers.edu.
128.6.13.92 guess.rutgers.edu.

128.6.26.142 klepto.rutgers.edu.
128.6.26.143 embezzlement.rutgers.edu.
128.6.26.144 blackmail.rutgers.edu.
128.6.26.145 harassment.rutgers.edu.
128.6.26.146 hijacking.rutgers.edu.

128.6.75.25 theres.rutgers.edu.
128.6.75.26 no.rutgers.edu.
128.6.75.27 place.rutgers.edu.
128.6.75.28 like.rutgers.edu.
128.6.75.29 home.rutgers.edu.

128.6.75.33 hex.rutgers.edu.
128.6.75.34 lex.rutgers.edu.
128.6.75.35 rex.rutgers.edu.
128.6.75.36 vex.rutgers.edu.

edited 9:59 PM EST March 29, 2006

edited 10:01 PM EST March 29, 2006

128.6.238.2 thebrain.rutgers.edu.
128.6.238.3 engsoft.rutgers.edu.
128.6.238.4 jove.rutgers.edu.
128.6.238.5 cronos.rutgers.edu.
128.6.238.6 bhd.rutgers.edu.
128.6.238.7 pinky.rutgers.edu.

edited 10:11 PM EST March 29, 2006
by unknownfile at 6:42 AM EST on March 30, 2006
128.6.238.7 pinky.rutgers.edu.

and...

128.6.238.2 thebrain.
brain.
brain.
brain.
*narf*
rutgers.edu.


Also, I have a complaint to make. I have cookies sent to my computer, and every so often it will tell me, "Authentication failed" even when the cookies are sending the correct password! This is annoying and I reccommend that you add a "this is a shared computer" option in the login script, as it is painfully annoying to get an error with a valid username and password.
by hcs at 7:08 AM EST on March 30, 2006
Two things:

1. You are not supposed to stay logged in. The system is designed so that you log in, read stuff (new stuff is marked), post stuff, log out.

2. Your password is not stored in a cookie. Though it may be stored entirely unencrypted on the server (which is a bad idea) and transmitted unencrypted (which is also a bad idea), you are granted a unique token upon successfully authenticating, which is stored in a cookie and discarded when you log out. This is to provide an illusion of security, and allowed me to practice doing things right for once.
by hcs at 7:14 AM EST on March 30, 2006
I got admonished by my boss for working while not on the clock...
by hcs at 5:01 AM EST on March 31, 2006
$400 in the bank from work.
B+ on English paper my tutor said I'd fail on.
AWESOME WEATHER!
Supposedly interesting speaker at 11 AM.

Good day. AND IT HAS JUST BEGUN!
by unknownfile at 6:55 AM EST on March 31, 2006
Fucking awesome.

Anyways in the oh so boring life of UF:

I'm seeing to getting a new hard drive this weekend as my 250 GB is running low on space thanks to excessive downloading of Kaizoku Fansubs's releases, and I might just use this new hard drive to store all that crap. Or I may just use an adapter to connect that old hard drive in my old computer (40 GB) and see if that can hold the OP episodes (34.6 GB so far).
by hcs at 8:43 AM EST on March 31, 2006
Do you actually need all that on your hard drive at the same time? I have hundreds of GB of data burned off to DVDs...

The talk was by Dr. Yale N. Patt, and was very interesting. It was about the future of microprocessors. I recorded the talk with my iPod, I'll be uploading it to my school account in case anyone is interested in hearing a computer design veteran talk about the current state of the art and where he thinks we should go from here.

Dr. Patt on quantum computing:
"I'm not suggesting that we should not do quantum computing, but it's not exactly mainstream. And it may be that I'm just too stupid to understand it, but I've got a bit, and it's a zero when I want it to be a zero and it's a one when I want it to be a one and when I open it and look at it I can't see it because the cat died."

Here we are, entirely unedited and of uneven volume:
Yale Patt - The Future of Microprocessors - Rutgers 2006-03-31.mp3 (32MB MP3)

edited 8:09 PM EST March 31, 2006
by unknownfile at 11:33 AM EST on March 31, 2006
Do you actually need all that on your hard drive at the same time? I have hundreds of GB of data burned off to DVDs...

Hard drives don't get scratched as easily and it's easier to access straight off the hard disk.

and fucking hell, I had to log out and log in AGAIN.
by hcs at 2:34 PM EST on March 31, 2006
but when a hard drive fails you loose 250 GB or so, a scratch on a DVD can often be recovered by error correction, at worst you loose a file or two.
by unknownfile at 3:46 PM EST on March 31, 2006
O s, vittrmy;u fpomh yjsy@
by hcs at 11:49 PM EST on April 1, 2006
Fixed a bug in my professor's code... we're supposed to be writing a frontend for a database we're only given the Java binaries for. It wasn't working right, so I disassembled it, found the problem, rebuilt it, and moved on. This means several things:
1) He never tested his code (it would have been immediately obvious had be done the most cursory of tests)

or

2) He's testing his students... (not sure if I should give him that much credit)

but in any case

3) no one else must have worked on the program in the week it's been assigned, or this would have come up in class
by Josh W at 1:02 AM EST on April 2, 2006
heh, yeah - he screwed up. Testing...yeah thats it, he expects you to disassemble his binaries.

On another note the default zonealarm configuration assumes your not running a private network, and thus blocks the ports required for pinging and file sharing.

Yay, ive got 3 assignments due next week, so i'd better start some of them now. C, Java and Database.

by hcs at 6:20 AM EDT on April 2, 2006
gaaah, sooooo many bugs.
I hope one of the TAs wrote this part of the code, I'd hate to think I'm being taught by someone so careless.
by PokeParadox at 11:33 AM EDT on April 2, 2006
Hey... teachers are only human too you know... Apparently.
by unknownfile at 7:55 PM EDT on April 2, 2006
Heeeeeee's baaaaaaack....


(Mr. Text sez Densetsu no Stafy)

Too bad I can't rip this one because it's not a GBA game :(

Speaking of which, I'm going to be reripping the GBA series over the next few weeks. I think that a great game series doesn't deserve an automated rip :(

edited 11:55 PM EDT April 2, 2006
by hcs at 4:26 AM EDT on April 3, 2006
gonna have another lecture online today if it turns out to be interesting:
Frank Vastono from Merck will give a guest lecture in class on Monday, April 3. The lecture is titled "The Changing Face of IT"

Meh, wasn't too good.
This guy was largely responible for Merck offshoring it's IT workforce. Got a lot of terms like "low cost geography".

edited 12:18 PM EDT April 3, 2006
by marioman at 9:25 AM EDT on April 3, 2006
I hate outsourcing. Once I listened to some Arab guy who was supposed to be speaking on Industrial Engineering, but all that he really said was that the North American job market is stressed and we need to only hire people in India.

My question is: If jobs in North America are so bad why is HE not in India?

edited 1:26 PM EDT April 3, 2006
by hcs at 3:12 PM EDT on April 3, 2006
I'm glad he was up front about it, though. He came right out and said that everything we're learning as undergraduates in computer science is being learned by Indians willing to work for far less.
He called it "labor arbitrage".
by marioman at 4:03 PM EDT on April 3, 2006
Yeah, the only thing is that the quality of the Indian work is greatly inferior. I personally know an Electrical Engineer that was a head software developer at a well-known electronics company, and he has had direct dealings with outsourcing. He knows about the pitfalls of farming out work to inferior employees.

One situation that comes to mind is when he was talking to a software manager from an Indian software development plant. The manager was talking about how efficient the Indian workers are, and how the software that they write for use in their products has a minimal amount of bugs when it is released. The manager then asked my friend, "How many bugs does American software usually have when it is released? Is it high quality software with less than thousand bugs? Or do you not strive for such quality?" My friend responded with, "No, it is more like one or two bugs." The Indian manager as looked at my friend like he was nuts! He couldn't believe that "high quality" software could be released and not have thousands of unresolved bugs in it. (That was the Indian guy's definition of "minimal bugs.")

That is the so-called "benefit" of outsourcing - not good stuff.

edited 8:28 PM EDT April 3, 2006
Cathy .caf reader by hcs at 6:43 PM EDT on April 3, 2006
decaf provides text dumps of Cathy databases.
All of my disks are cataloged with Cathy, which won't run under wine, so I wrote something to get a text output I can grep through.

Or, for instance, I can use a shell script to total up all the file sizes:
totsize=0; for a in *.caf; do for b in `./decaf s $a | cut -f2`; do totsize=$(( $b + $totsize)); done; done; echo $totsize

Though bash is no speed demon, so this takes a few seconds to come up with:
778434564531

edited 10:53 PM EDT April 3, 2006
by unknownfile at 8:04 PM EDT on April 3, 2006
My website's now running b2evolution for its main page. I doubt anyone cares about the old blog entries. Now off to bed and I'll see you foos tommorow. ;p

Also, hcs, please CHMOD my entire space to 666, for the purposes of this new engine thingy.

edited 12:06 AM EDT April 4, 2006
Javette by hcs at 6:03 AM EDT on April 4, 2006
Every time I think about a java recompiler I get excited...
I came up with a name on the bus this morning: javette (diminutive java)
but apparently this was already used for a simple subset of java someone was using to demonstrate designing an interpreter.

I've *got* to do this. I'm going to talk to my computer architecture professor to see if I can get any credit for working on it (independent study, or something).

Web Pages Related to Compiling Java into Native Code

edited 1:27 PM EDT April 4, 2006
by hcs at 9:29 AM EDT on April 4, 2006
Permissions changed.
by hcs at 10:57 AM EDT on April 4, 2006
I tried gcj's native compilation out again, it generates a nice small fast loading executable, but links against a bunch of libraries...

Here's the stats for a nice simple "Hello, world", in C (ct), C++ (cppt) and Java (jt):

-rwxrwxr-x 1 agashlin agashlin 3836 Apr 4 14:57 cppt
-rwxrwxr-x 1 agashlin agashlin 2888 Apr 4 14:53 ct
-rwxrwxr-x 1 agashlin agashlin 4972 Apr 4 14:53 jt

[agashlin@hactar ~]$ ldd cppt
linux-gate.so.1 => (0x0011c000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x001ca000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00b78000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00dc9000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00a47000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00a29000)
[agashlin@hactar ~]$ ldd ct
linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00ec9000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00a47000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00a29000)
[agashlin@hactar ~]$ ldd jt
linux-gate.so.1 => (0x002a0000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00dc9000)
libgcj.so.6 => /usr/lib/libgcj.so.6 (0x04e0b000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00b78000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00c9b000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00c86000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00b72000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00a47000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00a29000)

All these were built with gcc 4.0.2 -O3 and run through strip.

I'm thinking cutting down on the size of baggage the executable needs to carry would be nice... I remember when compiling this for windows it wound up at something like 2 MB because it couldn't link against a .so.

edited 3:00 PM EDT April 4, 2006
Random ICQ conversation of the day by hcs at 2:36 PM EDT on April 4, 2006
whoever: hey

me: hi
whoever: asl

whoever: how are you?

me: er, not really into this discussion
whoever: why?.. im sry... ill leave you alone... im justg tryin to meet some friends
me: well hi
whoever: hey
whoever: how are you doin?
me: ok
whoever: good

whoever: where do you live?

me: new jersey
whoever: kool
me: where'd you get my icq number?
whoever: im not sure... i just was doin a search and thought i would IM you
me: I must say I don't get that much
me: I get random advertisements a lot, though
whoever: im sry
whoever: is it ok that i added u?

me: sure
whoever: ok.. kool.
me: as long as you're not trying to sell me something it's fine
whoever: lol...ok..nope i dont sell anythin...lol
me: good, good
whoever: yeah... wellilltalk to you later;; i gotta go
me: bye, random person
by unknownfile at 8:37 PM EDT on April 4, 2006
(19:32:37) hcs: fneet

Don't ask why I found this funny

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