Hacked away on my thesis today

Tomorrow is going to be about writing more of the draft conference paper that I need to have done for Sunday. I have about 2 pages written right now and I need to write about 2 more pages before I can start organizing and reviewing it. Plus once I get some more screenshots put together I think it will all fall in place pretty swiftly.

COSI

Tonights meeting seemed to go really well. COSInauts were hanging around getting things done, I think everyone learned a little bit about how to use the tar and ssh commands today, along with some shell scripting. I hope the monthly project idea is going over well, it's really not meant to take over any other projects people are actively producing. The goal is to get things done in COSI that are really junk work for an entire 'team', but everyone can learn something from doing it and if we can automate the entire build/backup system that will be one headache gone. Perhaps Justin can handle organizing the next COSI meeting since he's in charge of web services this meeting could be about subversion/cvs or maybe about setting up an MTA with mail aliases.

Evolution

I have to say that I really love the new evolution, it is coming together so nicely that I've been using it for my daily email client for about a month. I'm on the CVS HEAD version, which is the only one i'd recommend right now. I really enjoy the multiple calendars, it helps a lot to be able to sort out where the different calendar entries are coming from. The system is similar to categories for your calendars, which has made me wonder if having these different calendar sources makes calendar categories obsolete in some way? I don't use the categories at all, I just use the check boxes for the calendar sources, which is about as detailed as I think anyone would get.

ITL

I used the Windows machines in the ITL lab the other day and I'm sorry to say, but those things are riddled with viruses and other junk that I don't want anywhere near my stuff. I'm worried about just typing up my paper in there, I don't want some kind of macro virus embedded in my doc file. Plus I need to upload the file somehow, which means I need to enter in my password while all those keystroke loggers are running. I'm not parranoid about this stuff, I think it was the popup ads that appeared on my screen when I wasn't even web surfing that clued me in.