Classes are out for chistmas break, so I’ve been spending time brushing up on my rusty C++ skills. You might think this is an odd way to spend ones break, unless you live where I do and understand the current weather conditions. Oh who am I kidding, I’d do it anyway regardless of the weather, [...]
Today I finished aggregating the data from the Python memory simulator logs into CSV files, and plotted the data. The graph can be viewed here. As you can see, there is a worst-case, normal-case, and best-case set of data, each corresponding to a page-removal algorithm. I think for a first program in Python, while it’s [...]
I previously mentioned the Python memory simulator project that I was developing, and had set it to run 6 tests on a dual-core machine. 4 of those tests completed, but 2 did not. It turns out that the overhead of performing a sort on Python lists with lengths exceeding 10000, several hundred times per second, [...]
I’ve accomplished a fair number of items this week, and so I bring them here to you.
Our team for CSCD340 (Operating Systems) has finished our memory paging simulator (written in Python), and we are now in the process of running 6 tests on it. The tests include simulating the following:
Consecutive data, worst efficiency algorithm
Consecutive data, [...]
During what I would usually consider a very dry class the other day, I had a satisfying realization. A discussion was taking place about what motivations students had for completing a college degree, and one student piped up and said “If I could just get the piece of paper (degree) and make a lot of [...]
It’s been a little while since I last wrote a post of substance; that is to say one that was more than just brief tidbits or musings. I’ll bring all 2 of you that read this blog up to speed.
I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately, which has a lot to do with this [...]
It’s kind of a shotgun approach to a title, but the title fits the blog post content well.
Today I received confirmation that I’ll be doing an internship for a local Spokane company. As an part-time intern, I will be learning ASP.NET, which is really nice. ASP.NET will round out start some of my Microsoft programming [...]
I recently reflected several differences in my knowledge:
My desire to know everything about computers, networks, and security, and what I actually know
In that context, what X is needed to know before learning Y
I want to know all there is to know in these areas, and in thinking about this desire, I realize that there are [...]
So let me tell you a little story about phpBB.
Tonight I spent about 7 hours dissecting a problem with phpBB. I attempted to perform some code-level modifications to the forum to allow people to view unread topics on www.EWUcs.com (you can see it now in the upper-right hand corner of the screen).
During this process I [...]
In the interest of community building, and keeping in touch, I started www.EWUcs.com for the local computer science croud. Check it out.