Kyle Smith

Tried this earlier today:

It wasn’t bad. And because I don’t have much else to say today, I’ll just post other random pictures from the last several days.

• Various photos of Doug crashing behind Cheesefry’s couch on Saturday. If he had stayed down much longer, he would have ended up like Cheesefry thanks to Bisti.
• The famed bar, which is currently unused although Eli and I had fun with Tim today and hid it in the gigantic closet by the stairs. He almost got his ass beat by the guys next door when he confronted them.
• Ray and Eli watching VH1′s Top 40 Hair Bands (there was nothing else on!).
• Finally, a shot of our apartment here at Marist. That’s us with the open door at the right end of the building.

Yet another reason to not use Fedora Core: Fedora Core Bug #115980.

Arrived in Poughkeepsie a little after 4:30 and after checking in at the Holiday Inn Express, I proceeded to Best Buy to see if they happened to have a big-ass power supply (they didn’t). Then made a quick stop at Halftime (the greatest store in all of Pok) to wander. Grabbed some dinner and returned to the hotel, where I discovered lo and behold, they offer free high speed wireless, which means I will now never stay at anyplace other than Holiday Inn (only as long as they have wireless though).

Oh no… the hippie has arrived.

Since clarkbw was cool enough to upgrade Planet COSI to use Planet, I decided I might as well check and see if OIT ever completed the DNS modifications I asked for. Lo and behold, they had, so Planet COSI is now available at http://planet.cosi.clarkson.edu.

I figured I’d jump on the bandwagon and congratulate Tim in writing. Congrats, Tim! Now get back to work.

GNOME 2.6 is going to f***ing rock. I’ve only been running 2.6 beta 1 for about 14 hours now thanks to BMG and I’m already loving it much more than 2.4.

Why?

• Well, I finally got the media keys on my Logitech Access Keyboard to work (for the most part; it doesn’t seem to want to let me us the Webcam or Messenger buttons for anything).
• Also, I love the new file selector (aside from a pesky bug where every 2nd double-click bounces me to “/”).
• The fact that GNOME Volume Manager appears to be in there is also pretty sweet.
• Epiphany seems much smarter about handling Web passwords now (perhaps this is actually gnome-keyring-daemon?)
• I like the new “Computer” location in Nautilus (don’t get me started on spatial Nautilus — ugh)
• The new SFTP support in gnome-vfs sounds pretty cool (haven’t used it yet).

In completely unrelated news, Brendan threatened to play Chopsticks on Donnie’s colon earlier. I’m not sure what I think of that just yet.

I’ve spent the last 12 hours in the COSI Lab doing homework. First it was a puny attempt at my TC210 paper. Then it was three hours studying for Linear Algebra with Justin. Then it was back to the ol’ paper. At least I finally got something done after everyone but clarkbw left (including Mike McCabe).

It currently looks like there will be at least six of us making the 2 hour trek to the OCLUG meeting on Tuesday to hear Robert Love talk. Should be very cool. Hopefully I’m ready for my 3 exams on Wednesday so I can actually go.

…for I am a Bug Squashing Machine.

Spent the last two hours or so doing a ton of small things that needed to be done: making all COSI people developers instead of just reporters so they can *do* things with bugs, closed two open bugs that were assigned to me and added some bugnotes to a few others. The end result: there are currently 5 open bugs assigned to me and every single one should be closed by Sunday. Unless of course one of you COSI bastards reads this and decides to get smart and assign a ton of bugs to me. I wouldn’t entertain that thought very long if I were you though, because I *will* destroy you.

The rest of the day was spent doing a variety of things: haircut, working on the database assignment Tony Dashnaw gave out, playing pool (4-1 in singles today, 4-2 overall — damn you Chris, spoiling my record!), watching Run Lola Run, and generally relaxing. I would never give Tony the satisfaction of hearing this, but it was actually nice to be up at 7:30 AM for once and have no where to go. It meant I got to goof off for several hours and still get started on homework by eleven.

Hrm. Another fifteen minutes left of Recreation Day 2004 (because this probably won’t happen again this school year) and then I have to start thinking about doing the CS344 and CS444 homeworks that have been assigned.

Head into the flood again…

After about 5 – 7 hrs of coding & tweaking, hmsh (the helper monkey shell, dumbass) is working.

I started building on top of my existing parser and added in all the functionality at once without stopping for incremental syntax checks or attempts at building it. After about half an hour I got the three screens’ worth of errors and warnings down to none. There are a few things I need to fix — backgrounding a process is a little flaky and redirecting input from a non-existent file produces not one, but two lines of error output. Aside from that, it seems to be working quite well.