Today is Kaia’s birthday, happy bithday Kaia.
It’s odd for a while there I thought Kaia was out of my life but now she is back. It’s a good thing. I like spending time with her. Yesterday at the food court was fun.
She has a blog which is private which I think is good. People should be able to choose if they want these things to be open or not.
I meet swadie and finalised the purchase of a video editing system for fusion. I then meet Howie Kaia Tom Chris Tinku for lunch in the field of dreams. It was good fun. Then I went to work and tried to work out how to fix my usb issue. I got no where.
I am now installing gentoo on my system. Every single package is compiled on my machine using optimisations for the athalon-xp. I think my system should boot pretty fast. I am currently compiling X. How can I post to my blog and compile X it’s quite simple chroot. I have one terminal which thinks it’s running gentoo whilst the rest of my system knows the truth that I am running Mandrake.
Well I am back at uni now and having my first day off uni. It looks like I have a 5 days one week and 4 days other weeks. OS looks quite interesting, it’s fun listening to someone else say windows is crap and unix rocks. Plus I already know some of the stuff which makes it a bit easier. Some poor people will have to learn how to use linux or unix this semester.
There was a Jenson talk on yesterday about “Who is Jesus” but I decided not to go. I felt that going there to disagree was counter productive. Insteed I engage in cross-religous talks with a Islamic/Christian and a Hindu. It was good fun.
After that I had Econ & Finance which was really boring even by engineering standards. The subject looks easy though so that’s good.
The memory usage in 2.6.0 is great. This is the pring out from the free -m command. note that most of my ram is used, with a large amount of cache. And that none of my swap is used. This gives much better performance.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 723 646 77 0 33 396
-/+ buffers/cache: 215 508
Swap: 792 0 792
I’ve decided it’s time to be a kernel hacker. I have been inspired today by working out that the problem with my ftdi rs232bm chip was the hub it was connected too. Please note that this hub was on the same pcb so it took some time to get cables and stuff made to test for this eventuallity. I am starting to understand what’s under the hood of the system. This semester studying operating systems will be the perfect opertunity to hone my kernel hacking skills. I am going to try and run the most up to date kernel possible. I want to be hardcore and contribute to the community I have benifited from. I am going to start with just some simple testing type work on my own humble pc and see how I go.
I am writting this post from 2.6.0-test1 kernel and have just finished compiling 2.6.0-test2 which I shall be running on my next reboot. If you want to download and try it yourself goto kernel.org.
I watched a movie called Bang Bang You’re Dead. It was really good. It deals with the topic of school violence really well. It’s hard to describe it properly so I’ll just provide a link to the play that it is based on. I just read the play and it was good too.
Debug kernels is really hard work. I have this ftdi RS-232 usb chip which the read operations fail after a couple of MB data is received. Anyway I have tried 3 different kernels(2.4.21 2.4.21-mdk, 2.6.0-test1) with a couple of configurations. I can at least make the problem occur every time now.
This is an extract from my system log.
Jul 26 11:53:28 revolution1 kernel: ftdi_sio.c: ftdi_read_bulk_callback - length = 20, data = 11 60 3e 3f 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4a 4b 4c 4d 4e 21
Jul 26 11:53:28 revolution1 kernel: ftdi_sio.c: ftdi_write_room - returns 2048
Jul 26 11:53:28 revolution1 kernel: ftdi_sio.c: ftdi_write port 1, 80 bytes
Jul 26 11:53:28 revolution1 kernel: ftdi_sio.c: data_offset set to 0
Jul 26 11:53:28 revolution1 kernel: ftdi_sio.c: ftdi_write - length = 64, data = 21 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3a 3b 3c 3d 3e 3f
Jul 26 11:53:28 revolution1 kernel: ftdi_sio.c: ftdi_write - length = 16, data = 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4a 4b 4c 4d 4e 21
Jul 26 11:53:28 revolution1 kernel: ftdi_sio.c: ftdi_write write returning: 80
Jul 26 11:53:28 revolution1 kernel: ftdi_sio.c: ftdi_read_bulk_callback
Jul 26 11:53:28 revolution1 kernel: ftdi_sio.c: (this is ok on close) nonzero read bulk status received: -110
Jul 26 11:53:28 revolution1 kernel: ftdi_sio.c: ftdi_write_bulk_callback
Jul 26 11:53:28 revolution1 kernel: ftdi_sio.c: nonzero write bulk status received: -110
Jul 26 11:53:28 revolution1 kernel: ftdi_sio.c: ftdi_write_bulk_callback - port->open_count = 2
I have tried to replicate the problem under windows but I can’t find any decent programs to do it with. I am going to try 2.4.22-pre8 soon and see whether that makes life any better. Anyway I’ll keep you posted.
How good is movable type for my blogging. having a title helps to focus me. All I need to think of is a tittle and I am away. Also the nicer text box and cleaner interface helps I am far less likely to be distracted. Plus I have yet to lose a post.
I think that blogs can both help and hinder relationships. I find that there is still alot to talk about even if my friends post everything they do. However one must be careful not to let blogs replace important interpersonal realationships. I think if something excitting happens I’ll tell it to first people I see. Not the first person to read my blog.
I’ve thought a bit about being in groups over the past little while. I think that the first thing you have to be in a group is spend time with people in the group. I believe that most people are quite happy to have people join in their social groups but that they don’t nessarily think of you wanting to be in the group. (Please note I am excluding groups of school kids cause they just plain suck). If people see you as being around and availible they will probably invite you to stuff.
Re-entering groups is much the same process as far as I can tell. If you have withdrawn from a group people have to know that you are availible and then you’ll get back on the list.
If people don’t invite you to things and it’s clear they don’t want you then there is only one option.
KILL THEM ALL!!
Oh wait there might be a second option. Leave them be and let them have their pansy arse little group of incestuous morons.
I don’t like this concept. For those how have never heard the term it is about making fun of other people in response to fun being made at you. Looking for instances were you can get laughter out of saying something rude to another person. It can get quite personal and it is not a very good practice. I am going to try and stop doing it.
The problem with my friends is that we know each other so well that it is exceptionally easy to make jokes at their expense. And we can also hurt each other well due to this knowledge. But sometimes we don’t stop to think about whether we are hurting each other.
In conclusion I think that the practice of Dog it forward should be stoped.
Some one said today that I was an honest person.
I had to reflect on whether or not I am honest. I’d like to think I am.
But I also believe in appropiate levels of disclosure. I think that many thoughts should probably stay in ones own head. I think that telling things to people in too much detail can lead to an emotinal dependancy on them. Plus somethings I believe are better for oneself to bear.
Also one has to be careful about the needless hurting of people. I am talking mainly about making trivial negative comments. Those kinds of things add up. And they hurt.
It looks like the results website is finally working. They’ve updated the site a bit from the old look. They now make you enter your password insteed of Date Of Birth to log in. Nice and easy. Plus I can view Spring 2002 Results now. So here they are.
48230 Engineering Communication 80D
48122 Engineering Pract.Review 1 65C
48531 Electromechanical Systems 60P
48530 Circuit Analysis 50P
48430 Software Development 93HD
My Uni results. Note I actually got these at 5.20 by calling the phone number for exam results. But I wanted to be able to copy and paste them.
48740 Communication Networks 78D
48440 Software Engineering 71C
48441 Introductory Digital Systems 73C
48240 Uncertainties and Risks in Eng 70C