New gaming system on its way from Newegg:
Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Case
Dell 2408WFP 24″ Monitor
GIGABYTE GA-P55-UD4P Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard
BFG Tech GeForce GTX295 1792MB 896-bit GDDR3 PCI-E2 x16 Video Card
CORSAIR CMPSU-850TX 850W Power Supply
Intel Core i5 750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz Quad-Core Processor
G.SKILL 4GB DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Dual Channel Memory
Western Digital [...]
I spent several months trying to locate a job in Seattle, but the economic situation displaced a lot of software developers who are now vying for the same positions as college graduates. I had many interviews and leads in Seattle, but in the end it proved too competitive to break into. Now that the ink [...]
“Valve co-founder Gabe Newell announced during a DICE keynote today that last weekend’s half-price sale of Left 4 Dead resulted in a 3000% increase in sales of the game, posting overall sales (in dollar amount) that beat the title’s original launch performance.”
It’s been a fair amount of time since I last posted warning of the dry spell in my blogging, but I think things have stabilized to a point where I can offer some words.
Of course, the primary reason for my busyness as of late is the 4 classes I’m taking this quarter, CSCD350 Software Engineering, [...]
This isn’t a substantial post, but nevertheless I found this quote extremely intruiging:
“Rampant piracy is just unserved customers” – Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development, Valve Software
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’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, [...]
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 finished up finals this past week, and I’m staged to take 1 course this summer on Ruby on Rails. Summer is here, though it’s certainly not shown in the weather. There are many things to look forward to, including fireworks displays on the 4th, a NIN concert, an airshow, a vacation, and my birthday. [...]