200th entry

wow, real interesting – check the care factor.

well, at least i’ve stuck with it – so yay me.

and it’s pretty close to the new year too – if only i could be bothered going and working out when the first entry was…

spending a lot of time at home – which is good for the lack of money expenditure, but i really feel like i should be accomplishing more – maybe i’ll have to hack some more instead of reading/writing email – there’s a lot of it – and it takes time to go through. and write.. urrghhh… more to do….

gotta write some more LA memberdb code – maybe later tonight.. who knows.

we got a new amp, and things actually sound a *lot* better. NAD gear rocks – C320BEE amp, 50watt beast that would easily beat any lower brands 80 or 90 watt amps. Only $540, it sounds like it should cost a lot more. If you’re looking at surround gear – forget it unless you’re willing to spend *at least* $3,500 on the receiver – this NAD stereo amp blew surround gear costing over twice as much out of the water – it’s chalk and chocolate – the NAD being chocolate.

I don’t think our 15year old KEF speakers are quite up to the same as modern day counterparts. They cost about $1,600 when we got them (and that’s a lot of money back then) – compared to the ~$1,200 B&W bookshelves (that’s bookshelf speakers, not some weird book storage/speaker combo) i reckon i prefered the B&W sound a bit – but these are still good.

we now have a remote for the amp too – so there’s yet another remote lying around – maybe we should get one of those combo things – could be quite useful, and means that we don’t have to find all of the others :)

mmmm… Tool sounds good. lovin it.

i now feel absolutely justified that stereo gear is worth spending money on :)

reiser4

I’m trying to go through and understand parts of the reiser4 code – specifically where and how blocks are freed.

I thought that maybe as a little introductry thing I could try and implement a “secure delete” option – i.e. one that basicall just writes rubbish over a block just before freeing it.

I have a feeling i’m going to have to ask some questions on the reiserfs-list :)

really cool Austrian movie on SBS

Just saw the last 50 mins – 1hr of this really hilarious Austrian film on SBS. All in German (or the version of it that is spoken there – i don’t know) it had me really laughing all out loud.

Heros in Tyrol

and here’s about the only thing that Google shows about it:
http://www.mostra.org/23/english/filmes/23.htm

bloody hilarious – would love the DVD so i could watch it all – musical comedy. great.

relocate pc?

Although it’s real good having a nice fast computer under the desk, the breeze from the fans is making my feet cold.

Needs an exhaust fan too – don’t like it only having one at the front (to cool hard drives) and the power supply’s (two).

Whoever the idiot was who decided that the graphics chip should face AWAY from the airflow inside the case should be twacked on the head. That’s where the biggest lot of heat is in my box – right beside the graphics card – because there’s sweet FA airflow around it (well, excluding the little fan on the chip there).

my old free open diary account finally got deleted – just after i downloaded it (WITH NOTES!), so now i may go update my free open diary import script to import notes as well. now that would be cool……

nearly there

getting closer and closer, i think i’ve managed to cover everything.

constructing the log book which also needs to be handed in, collating things from here and there. This entry is basically the last one that’s going to appear as i’m simply too lazy to print this off tomorrow.

180 odd pages, hoping that i can catch ron or carlo today to go over parts of it.

still have to write intro/conclusion. urghhhhhhhhhh

polish and additions

Trying to polish off the thesis, add bits taht need adding, and extra discussion where needed.

I’m hoping to actually be able to cover everything I’ve thought about – but I do begin to doubt it sometimes – i’ve thought too much.

Currently 173 pages.

talk went okay – not as good as i really wanted, but there was a problem with balancing time to explain the background information needed (lots) vs what i’d done.

practice presentation

got some feedback regarding the practice presentation i gave today – although it was about 8 mins over time (meant to be 15), i know where i can cut out some stuff.

comments and notes below:

clarity of Walnut better than unix, problems with walnut

explicitly state BeFS, maybe before ‘trends’

relate explicitly file systems -> object store

explicitly state that word processing is an example – perhaps state others

positioning of problem pages, bring together, remove duplicates

tie solutions to problems

summary slide of what works

use meta-data stuff as extensibility example

if trouble with time, drop out some extra things.

work a bit more at very beginning.

explain walnut,
what it does
how my project relates to it

explicit Aims slide