Joel Eisdath came late, and getting first place out of 7 teams. Fucker :)

I only solved 2 problems out of six, which got me a sucky 5th place. Bleah. I got those silly magnetic 'amino acid' simulators out of it though.

One of them was to reverse this hash function:

int hash(int x) {
int i;
for(i = 1 ; i < 21 ; i ( Read more... )

This site, along with having a copy of WinZip complete with registration key (good job, guys).... has WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS ( Read more... )

I stepped over the threshold into the ductwork. It was eerily quiet, and sound didn't travel as far as it should. Never before have I felt so disoriented. I needed to level off, move left, stand up, spin around to figure out where, if anywhere, the strange sensation was coming from, and walk away at the same time. Figuring it to be a strange one- ( Read more... )

For someone who uses the nickname Pi, I sure cannot draw circles. Graphs frustrate me. I have trouble drawing straight lines even with graph paper and a ruler. Last night in Trig, we started Polar graphing. I should go get some polar graphing paper ( Read more... )

Apparently, the coffee pot that I bought for the sysprog office is broken. How in hell one can break a coffee pot, I don't know. Neither the pump nor the heating plate come onThe heating plate doesn't come on, nor does water flow. I am irritated as I have not used this thing in a few weeks, meaning one of my cow orkers must have ruined it. Thanks ( Read more... )

So, those of you who know me know I have a bit of a fetish for wireless equipment, and a reckless attitude when it comes to nonvolatile firmware updates or modifications to expand the channel ranges ( Read more... )

Here is a guide to reading my LJ:

If the post:

• has tags running off into infinity with tangentially related names,
  
• uses any of the HTML entities , , or
  ( Read more... )

So, I use a Soulseek client written in Python. The menu for active downloads partially reads like so:

Abort
Abort and remove files
Retry
Clear
Let's think here. Assuming I have a shitty connection that drops the download every 40k. Which item am I going to pick the most ( Read more... )

Also, hot on the heels of package tags, aptitude has grown a more featureful conflict resolver:

( gmpc: Depends: libmpd-0.01-0 which is a virtual package )

So, John Shipman is showing me how to use his literate programming framework. I am to document acctmngr (the rewritten version). Only a weirdo would find this fun. (I find this fun ( Read more... )