Older blog entries for buckley (starting at number 18)

-={ Working }=-

Still teaching MS Access to little kids :). Corporate programs still suck...

-={ Coding }=-


Magdalen Hsu Li and SnowPony.

-={ Sleeping }=-

None

-={ Coding }=-

Not much as been done for school programming lessons, as they continue to go well. Background C studying did meant something afterall. I've been reading alot about cpp aka c++, and am learning data structures under thsi environment. More coding has been done concerning to Raw Sockets in C. I'm making a mailer in c, which can get pretty useful as a Mailing List manager or something, as soon as we give it a "shape". I spent some time this night upgrading a shell script by prla which consists on adding to a tar.gz the pages of the diary of a specified Advogato user. Using "diff -f file1 file2 >> exists" and [ -f exists ] I tried to implement a funcionality which determined which was the last page of one's diary. Didn't work as I expected. The original code can be seen here and my trying to correct it can be seen here. Some other stuff concerns to sysadmin'ing theories and books and reading about the CORBA project.

-={ Listening }=-

Basically SoundTracks. I've been listening to the *awesome* XFiles Soundtrack and *yet more awesome* High Fidelity Soundtrack, as to Joseph Arthur (Come where you belong) and dEUS (No more loud music). Randomly have been playing too Mr Bungle's and Tool's Bootlegs.

-={ Reading }=-

Willian Gibson's Neuromancer and Franz Kafka's Amerika.
Technical Reading: Networking Standards by William Stallings, Unix Network Programming, C in a NutShell and C The programming language by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan.

-={ Oddities }=-

I've been sleeping very little, and feeling little or no necessity to do it. The truth is that the extra hours are really needed for me to improve my skills. Is this wrong? After all, I'm just 18... it shouldn't happen anything wrong to me. Eating is also out of schedule, as my hungerstriked happen aroung 3 pm and 4:30 am. I'm gonna get myself killed one of this days. I've been reading Marcello's interview on SlashDot, which I found pretty hillarious as he answered everything *really* briefly. The replies are yet more hillarious. A must.

On the 29/30th October there was a network related comference @ my university. Subjects like QoS or CORBA related projects have been talked along with some new ideas for e-schools and API's. Me and my 6 colleagues from University of Evora where the only kids around so, when I started making questions, we were "seen" in a good way and we got talked to by some of the University of Coimbra teachers there, which was pretty kewl. We got to chat about our projects and learn some stuff that we hadn't understand about Diffserv's with them.

The NINF has a new news page here and a new server is coming soon. I have took my full services and started managing the system' security. As the server runs RedHat Linux, and i haven't got (yet) the chance to change it to Debian GNU/Linux, I compiled the new Mandrake Firewall Solution, which we will see how it stands. Some new info soon on this.

I updated my personal page @ http://buckley.evora.org.
Farewell

I now am the sysadmin for the server of NINF (the core of Computer studying @ ubi. OK, the website is rubbish, but will be soon completely updated, as the OS running. I'm getting some kewl acceptance at my new University, as I have currently 2 big "jobs" there, with only one month of classes. I will be also at the project UBICAR 2ky1, the project for Shell Eco Marathon.

Hey...

Lately I've just been coding C. It can get most of your time and steal your social life, you know? :) Anyway... there's this comference @ University of Beira Interior next 29, 20th November. The page can be found here. If anyone wants to appear here in Portugal :)

I've been listening mostly to Mr Bungle and Graham Coxon and currently reading Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, as I finished the Ender's 5 pack by Orson Scott Card.
Farewell and be happy

Hey

As we're learning to code C and webdesign in the University, I have some more time to dedicate do Perl learning, and so I did in this 4day weekend, along with setting up Debian Linux on my Laptop, along with Window Maker + Themes + Dock Apps. It's really pretty this window manager, as fast and stable. And that's it.

I've transfered to UBI (another university) just yesterday. A few good friends were left behind, but, all in all, I guess it's the best thing for me, and for my future, as I have a new start and I know *exactly* what I have to do to be successful. It's bloody weird as I hated Evora when I got there and I love it when I leave. Programming lessons are based on advanced C language + unix. The rest is basically the same, except for the last 2 years of the degree that have 2 ways to go, one of them network orientated, which is the one I want for me. Bye

Well. I wasn't expecting but I did succeed at the Programming examination with the grade of 14. Congz to me :)

I finished reading Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. It's one of the kewlest books I have ever read, exploring both the sci-fi and the emotional parts on the story of a child... it's worth to read.

Spent today's morning on the new Championship Manager, go figure. No coding or anything interesting has been done for the latter days, except for class revising and class going. We also managed to put together a Pentium 133 from the spares of other computers, in order to help a friend who's computer as gone dead. I'm such a nice guy :P

Miguel Azevedo

First week of univ of the current year. Little work done, mostly dinners and stuff.

I am both redesigning my web page to a fully dinamic web and studying perl at the same time. Coding has been resuced to a little alteration in the linux init scripts, in order to have random motd's and initial pictures... nothing much. Resources for ascii pics h ere and here.

I've been reading Pedro Paixão's Amor Portátil (in portuguese) and have both Ender's Game and 2001: Space Odissey in the reading stack as prla's advice.

Been listening to The Cure's Greatest Hits and Mercury Rev's All in dream.

I've been talking for a while about my Programming exam. After three nights without sleeping @ it's cost, and a lot of hard worked I must have failed roundly, yesterday. It was f*cking equal to the others, and yet, I've screwed it. When I left, the teacherasked which programming language would I like to see for next year. Does that mean a change? I hope so...

As a Baggio's advice, I went to see the page of this technomancer for it's kewl self coded page and the perl scripts. It's really kewl and I downloaded now the scripts for checking l8r.

On kahlage, well, it goes like this:
I have relatives who are Iranian and people are throwing crap at his house because of his ethnicity.

I hope i'm not beeing an USA groupie, but, I'd ratter be crap throwen than dead by a "strange" airplane. And the fault may be of one single person, but, it may be more than that. It may be on a way of thinking, but I hated the way this freaks celebrated the happening. If I could, I'd do *exactly* what Bush is doing now. Maybe a little bit earlier and with a little bit less of talking crap. IMHO.

Also checked and it's kcd project. Tx for the certification.

I've been listening just My Bloody Valentine and Radiohead. Call me dumb! :)

Have been writing on bethedeathofme (in Portuguese). </a>