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Fuali tests
Took some tests at Fuali.com. Here are my results: I am 29% Geek You probably work in computers, or a history deptartment at a college. You never really fit in with the “normal” crowd. But you have friends, and this is a good thing. I am 37% Internet Addict I could go either way. Deep into the madness of nights filled with coding CGI-Scripts and online role playing games, or I could become a normal user.
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A little more of Gel than Jeff was expecting...
Had an entertaining conversation with Jeff yesterday. Somehow we got on the topic of ECE291 and his team project. And how most of the rest of his team was pretty worthless. Anyway, he googled himself and showed me the webpage that the team made for their project. Turns out Gel (from IMSA) was on his team. So we started talking about her. So I guess Jeff was getting a little peeved by his team members and wasn’t convinced they were putting any effort into the project.
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Elysium update
I think I’ve figured out what’s been troubling Elysium as of recent. After trying all sorts of stuff (updating my drivers, reinstalling the system from scratch several times, swapping out RAM, switching all partitions in the system over to NTFS…), I finally noticed that the fan on the video card is dead. That would likely account for some of my problems (ie chunky video whenever I stress the video card by going to full screen or doing any 3d).
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Logic Simulator
After a little bit of work, I got the simulation of 32 input vectors in parallel up and running in my simulator. Pretty sweet. Shouldn’t be too bad to get basic sequential circuit support added in and then I’ll have done both extra credit options. Mainly need to figure out how to time my program and the rest is trivial. Will probably look into doing some further optimizing of my code, but seems pretty zippy for any circuit I’ve run it on so far.
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Day after V-Day
So, yesterday was Valentine’s Day. I think I managed to succeed at being all sweet and romantical by surprising Amanda by making her lasagna from scratch with a side of garlic bread. Turned out pretty well considering I wasn’t really following any particular recipe. Also got her a copy of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and a set of cute dragonfly chopsticks from ArtMart. Oh, and of course a cute little card with a whole bunch of lady bugs that form a heart.
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Work update
Yeah, so I’ve been pretty busy this past week, and haven’t really had time to post. Chi-Wei checked in fixes for the bulk of the bugs I had encountered in the gui, so I’m pretty happy. I can actually sorta use the thing now. More importantly, Jeff and I have made some comments about additional features we REALLY want, so with any luck, we’ll actually get some of those before long.
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#define glibbet
According to BJ, a glibbet is a small, weasel-like animal. Unfortunately, I have been unable to confirm this is a legit word. Most of the references I have found on the web state that it’s a nonsense, made-up word. BJ’s convinced it’s legit, but I suspect it’s just a word his favorite author made up for one of his books. I could be wrong though. I’ll have to ask Amanda’s mom and see if she actually confirmed this word somewhere, or if BJ just showed it to her in one of his books.
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#define sinew
1 : TENDON; especially : one dressed for use as a cord or thread 2 obsolete : NERVE 3 a : solid resilient strength : POWER b : the chief supporting force : MAINSTAY – usually used in plural [Source] Pronunciation: ‘sin-(")yu _also _‘si-(")nu Function: noun Etymology: Middle English _sinewe, _from Old English _seono; _akin to Old High German _senawa _sinew, Sanskrit _syati _he binds Date: before 12th century Scary tidbit: Amanda’s little 8 year old brother BJ used this in a story he wrote for school.
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"Beginnings of Coherency" and the "Mess we call a GUI"
So my local data caches finally started doing stuff today. Cluster 0 requests M[0x0]. The main cache sends all words in that local cache line and informs cluster 0 that it has exclusive access. Cluster 1 then requests M[0x0]. The main cache informs Cluster 0 that the block is now shared and waits for an ACK to confirm that it hasn’t become modified. Pretty sweet! I may actually have it all up and running before much longer.
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GameCube Goodness
Yeah, so Meijer had this great sale going on today. You could buy a GC for $99. And if that wasn’t good enough, you got 10% off anything you purchased. So you end up actually getting a GC for $89. Hard to pass up, so I didn’t. Got a couple of games (Animal Crossing and Mario Party 4) along with a 2nd controller so at least Amanda and I can play togeter.
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