– Since Last Hackfest
– Luke
– Lost his /usr partition
– interesting experience for scripting a debian
install using apt
– had been using unison (linux, windows, etc,
upenn.edu) for backup
– did some bluetooth exploration/debugging
– Graham
– Made emacs scripts to tally time spent on each sentence
– also did some mockups of the idea
– masters project things
– Vinny
– fixed commotion problems
– hacked javascript for work
– integrated the Rhino javascript parser into our new
platform
– Today’s Plans
– Luke
– messing with Palm memory map
– new method: allocate memory in different
applications, then see where that is in physical
memory
– going to Germany tomorrow
– Graham
– installing iTunes
– make the clocks invisible the right way
– support editing of existing sentences
– properly creating a mode instead of modifying all of
emacs
– Vinny
– either: executing scheme code for calculated properties
– or: automated population of the schools database
– Today’s Reality
– Group
– 60 minute discussion of economics of variable pricing on
iTunes
– Graham
– Worked on making clocks invisible – not done yet … ∞
loops
– Luke’s going to provide some info for minor modes
– Luke
– found some memory possibly below the OS boundary
– Vinny
– told Graham everything would be fantastic with XSLT
– looked at Grant’s latest spoontease
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Hackfest 1101 Postmortem
Thursday, November 17th, 2005atlhack flickr tag
Sunday, November 13th, 2005I tagged all of my flickr photos with the tag "atlhack". No one else is currently using this tag, as you probably guessed. If you upload atlHack related photos, please tag them! This will make them all show up at http://flickr.com/photos/tags/atlhack/
Hackfest 1100 Mortem
Thursday, November 10th, 2005Nov 10 2005 Hackfest 1100
Since last week:
Ben-
Slept a lot and watched a lot of TV. Profs give no love.
Luke-
Learning about ARM processor – current issue with booting kernel is with finding and setting the page table.
Vinny-
Diagnosed server for rootkit, removed unnecessary services. Suggested I try debugging writeWithSpeedup with constant width segments. Got rails running with fastCGI – spawns server and maintains state.
Graham-
Did 2 class projects, worked on debugging writeWithSpeedup.
Grant-
Was in China for ICCV. Tsing Hua university – GaTech of Beijing. Presented on parts-based tracking of bees.
Plan for this week:
Ben-
Focus more on watching the same show and stringing together episodes on different networks. Worked out bugs, want to figure out another way to autograde, as opposed to using reflection to check for methods. How can you autograde data structures?
Luke-
Trying to find the page table ptr. The ptr isn’t addressable from the palm.
Vinny-
Broke commotion, so he’s going to fix it. With rails up, set up scrapers to dump to database.
Graham-
Debugging writeWithSpeedup, reading SWIMM code.
Grant-
Evolutionary war next iteration. Roadtesting spoontease utilities (procedurally generated media).
He let me play his video game, evolutionary war.
Matt-
Studying up on sysadmin/tcpip/programming stuff for an interview.
Tonight’s reality-
Ben-
Fixed a bug – took out unnecessary stuff in the framework.
Luke-
Segments seem to be 1MB in size – learning more about memory system.
Vinny-
Debugging commotion – broke out properties were contained in nodes, but abstraction broke deserialization.
Graham-
Combining stereo channels is bad. This is probably the bug.
Grant-
Confirmed that his powerbook can compile and run networkable Evowar.
Hackfest 1011 Mortem
Thursday, November 3rd, 2005Nov 3, 2005 – Hackfest 1011
Notes: Next hackfest Octane is serving beer.
from m-w.com:
Main Entry: whole·some 
Pronunciation: 'hOl-s&m
Function: adjective
1 : promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit
2 : promoting health of body
3 a : sound in body, mind, or morals b : having the simple health or vigor of normal domesticity
4 a : based on well-grounded fear : PRUDENT <a wholesome respect for the law> b : SAFE <it wouldn’t be wholesome for you to go down there — Mark Twain>
Since last week:
Ben-
Fixed the Settings bean. Fixed other minor bugs, but Yannis made him cry, bitter tears.
Graham-
Worked on fixing glitches in output, not done. Worked on making Runtime.exec calls in SWIMM.
They don’t seem to be returning.
Vinny-
Helped Graham debug. Hosted parents. Mouse mvt and performance stats on OGRE + Commotion – 80 fps.
Fixed nasty XCode plugin bug – subclass responsibility error.
Luke-
Fixed his website – rss feeds went to blog posts. Kernel framebuffer debugging.
Titus (remote)-
I finished the PIC article this week.
Plan for Today:
Ben-
Get Intellisense working, capability built into NetBeans.
Luke-
Work on cleaning up website more, plam programming.
Graham-
Continue to debug writeWithSpeedup. Fix Runtime.exec calls. Luke suggests quiet option.
Vinny-
Working on Google Maps application.
Titus-
Working on a filter for Wikitext –> Markdown. Basically, because I’m trying to convert my blog to WordPress.
I’m using the Text_Wiki PEAR class, and modifying it with a ‘markdown’ target.
by modifying this: http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=Text_Wiki&page=HomePage
Today’s Reality:
Ben-
Discussed religion.
Luke-
Discussed religion, configured kernel. MythTV is awesome.
Vinny-
Rails is very slow on the server.
Graham-
Successfully debugged Runtime.exec, Vinny helped with glitches.
Photos on Flickr
Thursday, October 27th, 2005My recent digital camera purchase has resulted in a stream of photographs. If they are good enough, they make it to my flickr account at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ynniv/.
Titus asked about saving photos from flicker – I think this was a ploy to get me to allow photo downloads. The default setting is to allow other flickr members, but I have switched to the Communist setting of Anonymous. Go forth and pirate my camera!
Hackfest 1001 Postmortem
Thursday, October 20th, 2005– Since Last Hackfest
– Luke
– found blurb about alpha Firefox UI feature, tabling his
firefox project
– wrote simple CLI for jhymn on Linux
– spent some time hacking a linux bootloader for palm treo
(like GARUS)
– Matt
– Idea: chronological scale for google maps
– Graham
– Went to startup school
– Is going to write it about it tomorrow (says vinny, really on the weekend)
– Ben
– More autograding stuff – added something so that it can
read in a request for a complete regrade of a test
– Made things nice and user friendly
– Vinny
– been playing with lisp/scheme, made cool drawings in
logo/scheme
– Today’s Plans
– Luke
– Website cleanup/maintenance
– play with Palm bootloader more
– Matt
– Haning out, might head home to work on PC
– Sketch user interfaces
– Graham
– Music editor is STARVING
– fixing "write with speedup"
– Ben
– Write something to let the TA run a specific method
– Vinny
– muck around with scheme/logo more
– Today’s Realities
– Matt
– on vague timeline-animated-map-idea: babysteps, in the
form of touching base on java(?) and GIS
– Also: brainstorming on a slick name, with approriately
pretentious allusion
– Luke
– Got website things done. TikiWIki updated.
– mail organizing and DHCP debugging via packet sniffing
– Graham
– Defeated the System.EngineExecutionException by
reorganizing variables… marshalling issue?
– still buggy, tho
– Ben
– Reorganized some code
– read a lot of PhD Comics.com
– Vinny
– learned the shape of a nautilus shell
– wrote some scheme/logo to draw one
Hackfest 1000 Mortem
Saturday, October 15th, 2005Oops, forgot to post this. =P
Ben
o This past week, put together a working demo for the TAs, got some feedback.
o todo: want to put together a new test type that allows the TA to run a specified test.
Graham
o This past week, installed frootyloops on his notebook, did homework like a madman.
o todo: will install emacs. read swimm sourcecode
Luke
o This past week, started working on developing apps for trio. Started writing a bootloader for linux.
o todo: came up with an idea to improve usability for firefox. (Navigability without a mouse). A "generate links" button.
Also, intelligent transparency.
Vinny
o This past week, did 3d integration in commotion.
o todo: want a behavior that puts a terrain in a 3d scene.
Things we learned today:
o Courtship is the platform of the socially inept.
o Jesus was a hippie.
o Graham wants to cruise Nebraska to knock up women.
Hackfest 111 Mortem
Friday, October 7th, 2005Hackfest 111 – Oct 7 2005 7:30 PM
Since Last Time:
Graham: Fun with MPI and OpenMP for his Operating Systems class.
Ben: Has completed much of what the old autograder did in his new framework.
Vinny: OGRE 3D is working with commotion. Basic 2D object tracking is also working.
Titus: Job Interviews.
Luke: Fun with XWindow IDs and reverse engineering windows-only eclipse plugins.
That night:
Graham: Investigated Ning, considered purchasing an audio device for the laptop, and pondered emacs.
Ben: Added UI sugar and honey to the autograder in Netbeans.
Vinny: Worked on Drupal and lost, but he went out fighting.
Luke: Self-realization, Self-rationalization, and a decision to cancel plans to buy a home. Did some dhcp debugging a bit too.
any corrections or missing info?
Hackfest 110 Mortem
Thursday, September 29th, 2005Hackfest 110 – Sept 28 2005 7:30 PM
titillating facts:
Ben likes Firefly because it’s Sci-Fi, but they don’t explain any of it.
Ben hates the Magnetic Fields. But likes to dance to other pop music.
You can see the Octane music list from iTunes.
dmesg is one way to figure out what Linux distro a system is running.
/etc/redhat-dist is another way on machines that run some RedHat.
Since Last Time:
Ben-
Autograder generator done, TAUI underway. Cannot view/edit results.
Vinny-
Discovered physics abstraction wrapper – GangstaWrapper (like Ogre abstracts 3d libs) abstracts the underlying physics engine.
Commotion into source control.
Graham-
Nothing on Mused. Setup svn for SWIMM but it’s not working.
Titus-
Found CDT, a plugin that adds C[++] support to Eclipse.
Some Wine development. Trying to get the Newsleecher installer working.
Right now, the installer doesn’t work. It doesn’t let you create directories. The installer is written in Delphi, and it seems to be some sort of win32 problem involving Delphi code.
Plans:
Ben-
Reorganize build structure to remove an extra module and make it simpler.
Get test editor working.
Vinny-
Do something basic in Ogre using Commotion, like basic geometry.
Graham-
Fix the problem with SVN.
Get my file speedup stuff working, which might be hard because I haven’t touched it in weeks.
Titus-
Finish reading EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) chapter 1-5.
Stephen-
Doing homework and teaching the graphics gospel.
Realities:
Ben-
Reorganized build structure. Cleaned up ties together.
Vinny-
Reduced 250,000 errors to 2 (bizarre objC error). Basic Ogre setup hacked into Commotion, but not quite.
Graham-
svn now authenticating, rejecting everybody.
Titus-
I messed around with CDT today, and just worked with the Eclipse environment some more. I think it would be helpful to actually be an expert on the environment, as it’s hard to both program for it and learn how it works (from a user perspective) at the same time.
Hackfest 101 Postmortem
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005– Since Last hackday
– Luke
– Started porting eclipse SAP development tools to Linux
– Replaced windows native libraries
– Vinny
– Commotion
– Abstracted out all of my application singletons
– Got everything working again
– Some scenegraph research, ogre3d is the way to go
– Stackless python and continuations…
continuations are cool and powerful
– Today’s Plans
– Luke
– Working on browser component for SAP plugin
– Vinny
– lisp hacking – implementing while
– Today’s Reality
– Luke
– learned a little about the browser
– got the mozilla to integrate
– still trying to get it to load inside eclipse
– fixed a few more IE specific quirks
– spent some time trying to fix dhcp again
– Vinny
– lisp – wrote while as a macro
– (defmacro while (condition &rest codeblock)
`(loop (if (not ,condition) (return)) (do
(and),codeblock)))