Beksuki

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:18:31 GMT

Ant is pretty cool when you get the hang of it. I can build three separate Java subprojects, generate their javadocs, jar each of the subprojects, copy the jars to a deployment folder, zip all the support material, and ftp the zip and the javadocs to the server, all with one single click.

When using Eclipse, Eclipse even checks for circular dependencies in your Ant script, and shows you the circle. That's pretty crazy ...

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:41:56 GMT

Evidently the Perl source code (for building perl releases) is sprinkled with LOTR quotes. Say what you will, I think that's pretty classy!

Should have made this typo sooner

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:05:47 GMT

The command was supposed to be "ls -al", but "sl -al" gives more interesting results...

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:45:11 GMT

Protip: The conductors on a flexible printed circuit (such as those that ... connect my laptop keyboard to my laptop) may easily scratch, rendering the conductors...nonconducting.

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:51:51 GMT

Somebody needs to develop a cocomo II calculator for a ti-89 solely so that I may use it one time on this upcoming exam. PS: exam is in 2 hrs

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:20:45 GMT

The latest phenomenon is for me to turn on the computer and see that the sound card driver is no longer installed. It doesn't take more than 10 minutes to reinstall it from the internet, but, really? Just the sound card driver? Never anything else? How random...

Aw man

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:46:39 GMT

$219 to replace my engine temperature sensor.

Sun, 24 May 2009 23:44:26 GMT

Too bad they didn't have this site when I was taking electronic circuits...

http://www66.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Butterworth+filter

Music as a Weapon 4

Sat, 16 May 2009 05:07:33 GMT

Oh my gawd my hears hurt. Chimaira, who I didn't recognize, sucked I thought-- Killswitch is about as far into that genre as I'm willing to go. I knew all the Killswitch songs though which made them fun. Lacuna I only recognized maybe one song but they were enjoyable, and Disturbed was epic of course. They almost get you to think they WOULDN'T play Down with the Sickness, then there's a seemingly random 3 minute drum solo that rolls right into the intro to the song.

Carbon Footprint

Thu, 14 May 2009 18:13:09 GMT

A few grocery stores are offering reusable cloth bags for customers. If they use one of these bags, basically the cost of a paper/plastic bag is subtracted from their grocery total. I think it's a wonderful idea.

A number of years ago when I worked at a grocery store (before words like "carbon footprint" became so mainstream) there was an older lady who always insisted that I put her groceries in a cloth bag that she brought. I had thought she was just being difficult, turns out she was being kind of revolutionary!

Fri, 08 May 2009 23:27:43 GMT

I got a replacement battery for my laptop, since the original is now nearly 4 years old and only gives me like an hour or less of battery life. I got a new (non-OEM) one from a shady corner of e-bay that was marked as 12-cell, 8.8Ah, and looks like I'm getting as much as 7 hours! 8.8Ah is downright beastly compared to the original battery.

practical joke gone ...somewhat wrong

Wed, 06 May 2009 06:03:51 GMT

Some guys tried to rig something on the RA's door (right across the hall from my room) so that a huge fan would blow a tub of sugar into her face when she opened it. It worked, and then all the smoke alarms in the building went off (and still are going off). No sleep tonight!

Serious Badass

Sun, 03 May 2009 05:37:19 GMT

Project Excelsior

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:41:42 GMT

So I'm projecting 80-90 pages for this final report once I include schematics, BOM and assembly listing

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:30:32 GMT

Oh man, evidently Yahoo is closing GeoCities. That place has been up since the beginning of the 'nets it seems.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:05 GMT

Hurrah for regular expressions making application of custom character styles easy!

MANDELBROT SET, FROM THE DUDE WHO DID THE PORTAL ENDING THEME

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:00:24 GMT

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:14:49 GMT

For our design project, I had a problem where, when addressing my LCD module, the LED bar seemed to be displaying whatever bit pattern I was sending to the LCD, suggesting that the LED port was enabled, despite the fact that I wasn't addressing it in code. I hooked the board up to the logic analyzer and saw that that was true. The issue was that the address on the address bus wasn't ready until about 250ns after the processor activated the signal indicating an I/O operation. The address bus held zero at the time the I/O signal went active , and my LEDs were located at address 0h--evidently 250ns was long enough for the port to latch the contents of the data bus. So, I had to move the LEDs to a higher address and then it worked fine.

Talk about fine timing, now let's try a Ghz core rather than a 5Mhz 8086 ...

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:51:06 GMT

I've created a subversion repository for my huge assembly code project. Realistically I don't know how much it'll help but at least if I break something and can't find it I can easily access backups...

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:00:38 GMT

Saw a clip with Barak Obama filling out a NCAA bracket.

I know it's just a stunt like anything else but... that's actually kind of cool

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:02:28 GMT

OH LORD I'M 21

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:30:53 GMT

lol "bi-endian"

it swings both ways

lawl

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:20:27 GMT

Walter Brattain, co-inventor of the point-contact transistor in 1948, said at his death said that his only regret was that the transistor was used to further rock and roll music (via portable transistorized radios and whatnot).

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:59:37 GMT

I've been seeing an ad-hoc unsecured wireless connection around school here called "US Airways Free WiFi". After reading this I'm thinking it may be that someone around here has a "viral SSID" infection :o I bet that if I had connected I would have seen some shared folders appear in "my network places".

Actually I think using the word "infection" is overblowing it. It's just similar to email spammers luring people to revealing their private information.

I'm trying to figure out what exactly the emacs plot means

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:50:56 GMT