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hub: Hey, I'm from Montreal, Quebec. Good luck with immigration! I'm going through the process myself, being married to an American.

What a day

I almost reached a milestone today in my project at work today. I told my boss, and he's expecting a demo tomorrow. Right after he left, I found a major bug that could take a while to fix. I feel like I was running the last few meters (or yards) of a marathon and discovering I had two miles left.

Oh well...

Mono

Mono beta 1 is out! I think the .Net platform is great and to see it coming to life on Linux is even greater! Good job to those who worked on it. I can't wait to use it! I can't wait to help!

At least, the first step to becoming a helper is completed. Linux is installed and working! :)

Linux

Lots to read... Not feeling confortable with it yet. Psychologists should right about the Linux Culture Shock... You know, just like when you travel. The first thing you experience is awe. Everything is a new extrordinary experience. Then comes the depression (usually when most people quit and go back home... or Windows). Finally, you adapt.

I'm at step 1!

good evening to all!

Wow, what a weekend we just had here in Montreal! A taste of summer that lasted three days. Hopes of new begginings... blablabla :)

It was a nice weekend, very nice.

that's all for now!

work work work... I've been working about 9 hours a day, seven days a week, for the last 3 weeks. It's mainly a proof of concept that I have to show a client on Wednesday. If they like, they buy! :)

On my time off, I managed to install Debian Unstable on my machine. Linux being Linux, I need to tweek my box so everything is perfect. Oh, and I also installed Mono. See, I program in C# at work and I love the .NET platform. Mono is something I'd like to contribute to simply because I believe in it.

And for the first time in my life, everything on my computer is legit! ;)

(how do I remove that project from my project list? It's a shame I ever put it there! I never did anything with it at all!!)

See you next time!

16 Apr 2004 (updated 16 Apr 2004 at 16:52 UTC) »

After two years, I still haven't found out how to delete the project I created in 2002... I've never really worked on it and don't plan to anymore.

I guess I'm flaky! :)

I would like to contribute to the opensource world after abusing it for so long. First, by installing Debian on my machine. Then, by helping the development efforts on Mono, which I think is great, being a fan of the .NET platform.

But I'm also a thinker (or I try to be, anyway). Outsourcing is bound to become a problem eventually, until we find a way to adapt (like we adapted when the computers came around... people ranted that computers were stealing their jobs). How are you supposed to become a project manager when you need experience for that job and those jobs are being outsourced (somebody here had an article on that recently)? Sure, you need public skills and personnality, but you still need those technical skills.

The answer: the opensource movement. Here is where we can find wisdom, knowledge and experience (no, no public speaking skills, sorry).

Let's start working!

Wow... it's been a while! I remember, two years back, telling nymia to keep up the good work with her diaries entries.

Two years without keeping the community informed of my doings, without even having a project! But you may know how it is to be studying computer science or working for a software company. When I get home, sometimes the last thing I want to do is sit in front of yet another monitor.

So what's been happening with me? I got my undergradutate degree last december and started a master degree in computer graphics.

Do I have a project? Yes, I do!! I love computer graphics and I thought the only way to get all the basics rooted in my head was to create an open sourced modeliser/renderer.. kinda like Maya.

I'll keep you informed about that, but most of my time is spent studying or coding for my master degree project.

Hope I come back soon! :)

I've taken the sourcecode of glTron, another Tron clone that looks really great and hope it will help me a little in my quest for my first game ever! I decided to use exclusively GLUT for the moment, but as soon as my skills in Xlib programming get high enough, I'll try to use that library instead of GLUT.

At work, I managed to fix a bug! But the fix created another one. Grrrrr...

Finaly!!! I got to set up a proper homepage at my project's website. It's very far from being completed but at least I got ssh to work properly. I had to use ssh version1 instead of ssh-2.x. Ah! I'm so happy right now! :)

See ya, all!

How do we know our linux box has crashed? Could it be that your computer's inputs have been disabled? That's funny. Well, it's not. I've been trying for a few times now to install ssh. I thought installing the first version would fix my problem (can't login to shell.sourceforge.net). It might, but I've yet to install it! I think my linux box is afraid of it. I've got the latest Nvidia drivers for XFree 4.0.1 and I know both are a little buggy. I was switching from my user account (running X and Netscape for documentation on how to install ssh) to my two opened root accounts (for configuration of ssh) and suddenly Crassh!

Guess I'll try again tonight but it won't be easy. You see, I live with four female roommates. As you well know, women tend to use such little devices, like phones, very often and for an extended period of time. And since I'm using a modem... 'Nough said. :)

Work: It's really bugging me (litteraly). I'm just a coop student and I started to work at exactly the same time as Corel Draw 10 was getting into the debbuging part of it's release cycle. Shee! And there are sooo many I feel like I'm a marine from starcraft in front big swarming sea of zerglings!

You wouldn't believe how many issues we have!

My project: I've begun to do some research. I've found three different versions of the Tron game so that's a good place to start looking. I hope to have my basic game architecture planing done by the end of the week.

I've been thinking of doing a big "scrach book" on how my project is going. If this is going anywhere, it could help other people do whatever I'm trying to do right now from a newbie perspective.

See ya!

It's just amazing.

Some people seems to have it all in life: curiosity, motivation, social life. They want to learn and they are learning! I'm so jaleous of that kind of person! I would like to be like that. This is one of my goal in life and some people like Nymia are an inspiration to me.

Nymia, your diary's entries are amazing! Keep up the good work! You seem to be so happy and full of energy!

There really should be some kind of message service here... I'd like to communicate with some people here and the easiest way to do so is through our diary's entries.

Here are the things I need:

- A good book on Xlib programming (tutorials are hard to find. And I must admit I like the feel of a big hardcover book sitting on your lap!)

- TIME!!!

I so much want to create my project but I still lack the knowledge and time. So I guess it'll be slow going. But that's all right, as long as I don't lose my motivation.

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I feel good today. I've been working on a bug in the text engine of the upcoming CorelDraw 10 and I'm actually getting somewhere. This is very good for my ego! I still have a few problems, but it should be over in a few minutes.

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