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Thursday, January 29, 2009

What's New in IT?

Posted on January 29, 2009 at 02:03 AM.

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This was an assignment I had to finish for Software Engineering. I found it an interesting topic, so I'm going to repost it here.

ext4 is the new file system used by Linux. The development effort started on June 28th, 2006, when Theodore Ts'o announced the plan for development. ext4 was marked as stable on October 11th, 2008, which ended the development phase and moved into the maintenance phase. Finally, the first Linux kernel to contain the file system was released ... Read More

Category: Technology

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Spring 2009 Class Critiques

Posted on January 28, 2009 at 01:30 PM.

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Welcome to my blog. It's been a LONG time since I've posted anything, so I figured I'd post this and let everyone know my classes and what I think about them.

Monday/Wednesday/Friday:

Linear Algebra and Matrices: We started this semester off with a bang on the first day and studied... FRACTIONS! Luckily we seem to be getting back into math with vectors and dot products, but I know all this stuff and it's aggravating to sit in a class I know I'm probably not going to ... Read More

Category: Random

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Last.fm Charts

Posted on December 4, 2008 at 03:02 PM.

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^ My most recent songs I've listened to.

^ My most-listened tracks since I signed up with last.fm.

^ Ditto, but with artists.

Category: Music

Interesting Things

Posted on December 4, 2008 at 03:01 PM.

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^ That's specific statistics about my current computer. It runs the latest verson of Kubuntu. Dunno why it's reporting as Debianlenny currently, though.

^ Mah Halo stats. This is important business.

Category: Random

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Programming Languages Tournament

Posted on November 19, 2008 at 04:55 PM.

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OK, I'm quite bored. So I figured I'd name all of the programming languages (very loose term) I know/use/are kind of familiar with, and put them through a tournament:

Ada
C
Java
PHP
Perl
XML
Bash
HTML
Scheme
Prolog
SQL
PL/SQL
XSLT
Python
C++

Seedings:
1. C
2. PHP
3. PL/SQL
4. XSLT
5. C++
6. XML
7. Python
8. Prolog ... Read More

Category: Technology

Sunday, November 16, 2008

2008 Jacksonville Jaguars

Posted on November 16, 2008 at 09:04 PM.

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To be honest, I had high hopes for this season. In the wake of Super Bowl XLII, I stated (very confidently, in fact) that the Jaguars would be the AFC representative in Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa.

Fast forward to now.

After today's loss to the Titans, the Jaguars are sitting at 4-6. What happened?

In my opinion, three major things are adding together to end up where the Jaguars are now. Offensive line injuries, opponents being able to stop the run, and ... Read More

Category: Jacksonville

Monday, November 10, 2008

GIGGAS's Take on 2008 Virginia Tech Football

Posted on November 10, 2008 at 04:52 PM.

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It sucks.

First, Virginia Tech lost to East Carolina. I went from being incredibly hyped up about Tyrod Taylor to watching Sean Glennon do what he loves to do. Lose games. I know Frank Beamer, he's just a kid and he shouldn't be criticized. Maybe you should talk to Mike Gundy about that. He is 40.

After the game, Tyrod's redshirt was burned to the ground. When I heard the news on the radio, I was ecstatic. And all was good until October 25th. In a tough game, Tech went ... Read More

Category: Virginia Tech