I upgraded my server OS to FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. It was painles… ok I won’t lie… it was mostly painless. With me, nothing ever goes according to plan. Anywaym things look good for now. Hopefully this will get rid of those annoying kernel panics when I transfer large files. I hear that issue was fixed in…
Category: Computers
Intel and Artificial Life
This is my fourth day at Intel. I think I will enjoy working here. I haven’t done much yet though, and I still don’t know exactly what it is I am supposed to be doing. I tested some 140 chips yesterday, but that wasn’t too much work. My supervisor is out until Tuesday, so until…
Absurd amount of traffic
Yesterday, I had trouble accessing my own site from my WinXP machine. It was really slow. It didn’t make too much sense. So I ssh’d to my FreeBSD machine and ran netstat on it. I saw a LARGE number of connections to port 80 (http). I don’t know who all these people were, or why…
Bumped Up
I bumped up my line speed from 640k/256k to 1.5M/896k. Expect faster downloads from here!
Things I would like to do
Sometimes I wish I had time to do the many things I would like to do. First, I would like to code a lot – no surprise there. Then, I want to do some linguistic stuff. Read up on all sorts of languages; try to make inferences as to their relationships and their derivations. I…
Dr. Pheanis’ Last Class
Today was Dr. Pheanis’ last day as a professor. We were his very last class. He said he would remember us the most because we were his last class. I think it is very fitting that the CSE 521 class would be his last. We are essentially (in his view – I am not just…
Whoa
I had my very first code review. It was interesting and slightly unnerving. I had all these people who had gone over my code, tell me what was wrong with it. Luckily, nothing too serious! Just minor issues. I learnt some new stuff though. THEN, I found out that my highschool friend is GETTING MARRIED!…
I hate spyware
I hate spyware. Spyware companies are run by malicious bastards. You heard me. Anyone who makes spyware (exploits, trojans, whatever) or runs a company that knowingly makes spyware or is involved in its development, is a filthy bastard. I just removed a Trojan that was hijacking my start page. It was using a rogue dll….
Where is it?
Parag asked me what the deal is with the new web page. There’s no deal. I’ve been putting it off because of CSE 521! I’ll be able to do it soon I hope…
Real Programmers
Real Programmers have their epiphanies at around 3 or 4 am. I have been debugging assembly code for a few hours. I fixed it at about 4:15 am. It is a wonderful feeling. I am a code monkey and proud of it.