Well, hi. I am currently nearing the end of a 3 hour break
between two very pointless lectures at uni, so I decied to
come have a groan, and a cheer around here. Ewww. That
rhyhmed.
Anyways, I am currently bored beyond all recognition - the
uni machines dont have a) autoconf, b) automake, c) libtool,
or d) cvs - so i am unable to work on ferite, and this
annoys me. It annoys me even more when the university
refuses point blank to install these onto the systems here.
(it woulnd't be a big deal as it would simply be a case of
installing it once - then eveyr work station has it due to
the nice NFS mounted root file system). Nevermind, it stumps
the work i could be doing (I could go home - but by the time
I have got there and back it's not worth the effort and
time). So I am stuck here.
...but I am looking forward top this evening. It's that
night that crops up everyso often called VODBULL. So,
I hear you cry, wtf is it? Vodbull = a night some
enterprising student came up with in birmingham (and it soon
spread) where you go along, a buy double vodkas and
redbull for one enligsh pound. This is wicked - and
susually ends up everyone in the group of friends i go with,
drinking excessive amounts in the order of 16 drinks (read:
32 shots of vodka and 16 shots of redbull) - and what
can i say? it's wicked fun :-) - but you do tend to leave
the building fairly early on :-). Friday night and Saturday
night were also a great laugh - spent most of friday in the
pub with everyone, and Saturday night was spent at our
student union getting very drunk, dancing to cheesy mousic
and have a nutty time. Sunday was spent doing sweet fa, and
then i worked a load on the namespace cleanup stuff on
ferite.
ferite is coming along nicely, I am currently removing
duplicate code and cleaning up the logic within the system
(it's currently stupidly complex to see whats happeneing -
which makes it 1000% more tricky for anyone bar me to hack
on atm). Also the code is being more generalised and lots of
the internal code is using more of the same routines - which
is wicked as optimasations help all of it. I am also
thinking about sitting down and writing a white paper on my
OS design I have been planning for the last 5 months or so,
hopefully I shall start real work on this system for my
final year project - or once ferite has matured and I have
slightly more free time.
Anyways, carry on smiling people, until the next intrepid
adventure update. And please forgive the typing, the sun
keyboards here are evil - half the reason i dont do work
that much here at uni is because i find i can work for much
longer using my natural keyboard at home (my arms actully
physically hurt after about 20 minutes of hard typing here -
at home i can go on for hours ;))