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Mactane

Monday, September 12th, 2005

Has anyone noticed that Octane has an overwhelming Mac to non-Mac ratio?  I think that its the highest I’ve seen in Atlanta.  If you’ve got a Mac, come hang out with the cool people!  

Hack Fest 11 Links

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

Some links from today’s meetup:
    The Microkernel Paper
    Atlanta Python Meetup 

Other Atlanta computer type groups that I found on meetup.com:

    Atlanta Web Designers
    DotNetNuke
 

Atlhack Meeting Notes

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Notes from our occasional meetings for posterity.

0   NUL  Null  . . . . . . . . . prehistory
1   SOH  Start of Header . . . . 08-25-05
2   STX  Start of Text . . . . . 09-01-05
3   ETX  End of Text . . . . . . 09-08-05
4   EOT  End of Transmission . . 09-15-05
5   ENQ  Enquiry . . . . . . . . 09-22-05
6   ACK  Acknowledge . . . . . . 09-29-05
7   BEL  Bell  . . . . . . . . . 10-06-05
8   BS   Backspace . . . . . . . 10-13-05
9   HT   Horizontal Tab  . . . . 10-20-05
10  LF   Line Feed . . . . . . . 10-27-05
11  VT   Vertical Tab  . . . . . 11-03-05
12  FF   Form Feed . . . . . . . 11-10-05
13  CR   Carriage Return . . . . 11-17-05
14  SO   Shift Out . . . . . . . 11-24-05
15  SI   Shift In  . . . . . . . 12-01-05 snd
16  DLE  Data Link Escape  . . . 12-08-05 snd

            (holidays)           12-15-05 snd snd

17  DC1  Device Control 1 [XON]  01-12-06 snd
18  DC2  Device Control 2  . . . 01-19-06 snd
19  DC3  Device Control 3 [XOFF] 01-26-06 snd
20  DC4  Device Control 4  . . . 02-02-06

Hack Fest 10 Postmortem

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

Notes from today’s meetup. Lisp! Regedit! Messenger! None of these things are in the notes.

–  Since Last Hackday (a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away)
    –  atlhack.org
        –  last time, failed to do audio chat
    –  graham
        –  hard drive crashes.  all project code lost
            –  rewrote lots of project code, but not back up to speed yet
    –  luke
        –  wrote an interface for connecting to nethack via lisp
    –  vinny
        –  atlhack related stuff
            –  CamelCaseSmackdown
            –  cron backups
            –  added project module, but no SVN support yet
    –  titus
        –  investigated biojava, a java API for biology
    –  ben
        –  rewriting autograder
            –  looked into a netbeans architecture

Click to see Plans and Realities.
–  Today’s Plans
    –  graham
        –  implement peak picking – will have simple segmentation done
    –  luke
        –  finish lisp interface for nethack
        –  investigate specs for two other projects
    –  vinny
        –  get opengl object to properly Init contexts
    –  titus
        –  research the eclipse modeling framework and SWT
    –  ben
        –  make a test sample autograder that just compiles code
–  Today’s Realities
    –  atlhack.org
        –  this time, failed to do video chat.  next time, shared AIM / IRC?
    –  graham
        –  did peak picking!
            –  thresholding (> .25 percentile), zero crossing the derivitive
            –  checked into SVN
        –  luke
            –  bridge is reliable
            –  a bot engine has been started
        –  vinny
            –  beat the crap out of code, refactoring style
            –  got openGL context to display
        –  titus
            –  eclipse was not going to happen on his laptop
            –  second project: bindary newsgroup poster that doesn’t suck (C#)
                –  got some basic code in SharpDevelop
        –  ben
            –  wrote test autograder, but it doesn’t work

Schools of Georgia Tech

Monday, August 29th, 2005

Here is a snapshot of Georgia Tech’s Directory.

Each chapter here is information about the school, not a link to the school’s website.

College of Computing, IDT (tech art and design), and ECE are good schools for learning about computation.