$ /usr/local/j2sdk1.3.1/bin/javac

Illegal instruction

Oh fucking great – this shit sucks ass.

i should point out that that white thing in the photo below isn’t a door, it’s a pillar. like the one you can see in the middle of the room in the 2nd photo.

Even the sign telling you where the printers are has had to go.

This type of appauling behavior is prohibited in the STRIP joint. Especially not in the fish bowl!

That’s: “Please do not tap the glass (it disturbs the fish)” on the left, and “Welcome to the Monkey House, The Code Monkey House” on the right.

The big camel is a perl program that prints the small camels. This is also not allowed.

The Committee for the removal of Fun and Humor has struck again.

If anybody wants the prime example of why Apple chose to have one button on their mice, go be a beginner user of xfig. Sure you can do cool stuff in it (hey, there’s a bunch of example images as made by one of my hons supervisors).

but xfig is bloody shocking if you’re not experienced with it.

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Balanced-Binary-Trees.html

saves the day – efficient in-memory indexing, for bugger all effort. gotta love it.

well, they’re not 3 point subjects.

if you define 3 point subject as 1/2 of a 6 point subject that is.

3+3 > 6

grrrr……

although things are interesting and all that, there is just too much on to do a good job on it all. well, unless you’re smarter than i am. or at least better organised. or if you took a break sometime. urgh.

Finish your drink when the lecturer says:
– “15 year old Canadian”
– “Mafia Boy”
– “Microsoft”
– anything about a 1×1 image

Take a drink when:
– There is a spelling mistake in the notes
– When you can read one of the words written on the board
– any mention of “doubleclick.com” is made

okay, so the $HOSTNAME-ng tag is getting a bit dated, it seems like it’s the monash favourite, so tazo (the “work-in-progress” name for the new yoyo) is up and I’m helping to get it up and running.

I seem to have been the guy doing most of the stuff so far, the /root/CHANGED file is mostly me. I’ve started to bitch in it. Bitch about FreeBSD that is.

The ports system is cool, when it works. and when you don’t have stupid proxy authentication to contend with. oh, and an incomplete mirror.aarnet.edu.au

i think i’m doing things the right way, well – the way the handbook tells me and using portupgrade \*

oh, installing PHP4 has segfaulted. that’s fun. NOT!

Well, it’s all prepared (http://www.flamingspork.com/talks/2003/04/intro_to_linux.pdf) and ready to go. Copies of the notes have been made, all ready to hand out. Have made 30, hopefully we’ll need more :)

And I do hope that enough students have heard of it!

Well, wish me luck…

Yesterday, being a Tuesday in Semester 1 for me, is a hell of a day. Long. Really long. Start at 10am. Finish about 9pm.

But, got home and opened the mail, one from monash. This time, not asking for money.

I’ve been awarded an Honours Scholarship for 2003!

I didn’t apply or anything, so I assume they have some other process:

“our school awards these scholarships to encourage the best and brightest students to stay on for additional studies in the Honours degree. We beleive that you will greatly benefit from this financial support to improve your knowledge of state-of-the-art developments in CS and IT”.

funky.

Yes, I should be doing all these uni assignments I’ve got. But seriously, fuck the coursework. I much prefer the project. Solving a tricky problem with some research potential. Now *that’s* fun!

What’s more, there’s not only the opportunity to work on an exciting OS (Linux) but also for something that’s even newer and weirder (Walnut). Although there’s no way in hell I’m touching Walnut code for a while yet. Not until it’s rewritten remotely sanely.

How come I always end up writing the Portfile for *really* broken build systems?

SPIM is pretty broken, POVRAY was worse. Really, really bad. I did a VERY nasty Makefile.in hack (I added in linking to libraries to the “*LINK=” lines).

Oh well, it’s installed now. You have to specify really weird command line arguments. Whoever came up with this weird stuff was really weird. The number of warnings coming up during the build phase was just scary.

Chatting to the Debian package maintainer for it, he said it was really broken to, and just hoped that I wasn’t trying to take it to a 64bit architecture, apparently it makes some nasty assumptions about the length of longs.

It’s running on PPC32 at least. Haven’t tried the X stuff, just outputting to PNG, which works fine. The amount of crap it spews out while rendering a screen is annoying though.

I’ve managed to get through some of the tutorial on povray.org too, got some shapes going and pictures coming out.