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About atlHack
November 13th, 2005 by ynnivHackfest 1100 Mortem
November 10th, 2005 by grahamNov 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 1100
November 4th, 2005 by grahamCome hack with us at Octane!
Hackfest 1011 Mortem
November 3rd, 2005 by grahamNov 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.
Hackfest 1011
November 3rd, 2005 by grahamCome hack with us at Octane!
College Searching w/ Google Maps Interface
October 27th, 2005 by ynniv
Notes so far:
A few simple use cases:
1) Me
Looking for a masters program:
Search/sort by:
Geographic Region,
Size of the City,
Ranking of the School
2) Ben
Goes to the site because "its cool". Expects:
Get the map
Ranking slider bars
Numbered or lettered according to ranking, if there is one
otherwise
Search for the city / name, sort based on proximity
Certain sized school
Update dynamically
3) Graham
Looking for a phd program:
Search/sort using:
quality of teaching
how published / cited people are
Specifics: program keyword searches ("computer audio", etc)
Size of the city, culture of the city
4) Titus
Ratios
Looking for a grad program:
Major Specializations
Admission requirements
Average GRE
Number of students
Religious/Political Affiliations
Number of plublications (Impact factor)
Cost
If there are "out of state" benefits
Regional Weather (how cold it is)
Extracurricular activities
USNews rankings
Tiers / Risk Minimization
Undergrad:
class size
Acceptance
Retention
Average GPA
Internet Connectivity / Most Wired / Restrictions (OS, Firewalls)
A "Good" search result: 20
Search by "course", like "Semiconductors"
Biases:
Computing Platform
Research groups
vocational vs theory
political
religious
GALA
Landscape:
buildings vs trees
city vs town
Where they go after school:
Grad programs
Companies (colleges that recruiters visit)
Startups
Hackfest 1010 Mortem
October 27th, 2005 by grahamSince Last Week:
Ben-
Added interactive invoke main method. Ran up with issues, but it’s usable.
Still has issues with Settings in JavaBeans. TAs will start using his autograder in mere days.
Graham-
Speeding up a pop song seems to work, but my output has glitches.
The glitches happen even when you speed up by a factor of 1.0, which should in theory do an exact segment-by-segment copy. So the glitches come from an error somewhere in the process, above any errors that may be in the segmentation process.
Vinny-
Wrote a small GMaps application for finding CS schools.
Wants your support – workshopping support.
Has started working on db support with Ruby on Rails.
What is the most useful feature for you, applying to schools?
Titus-
His Article is due Nov 1, it’s on doing PIC microcontroller sims in Linux.
Plan for Today:
Ben-
Debug Settings object in JavaBeans.
Vinny-
Leading discussion map app. Maybe gamey stuff in Commotion.
Graham-
Refactor some of my segmentation, try to kill glitches.
Titus-
Testing bleeding edge and fixing software GPSim, GPASM, SDCC, all to write an article.
Mike-
Doing the school, math and linguistics.
Stephen-
Nonlinear optimizations.
This Week’s Reality:
Graham-
Stole music, chatted with Stephen and Mike, gave Vinny a use case. Suggested Dynamic Queries for CS Map.
Vinny-
Installed rails, wrote caching scraper for college board. Collected use cases.
Has compiled a document of several use cases for his systems.
Ben-
Danced to the music, over and over and over again.
Titus-
Working on his article, came up with examples. How to do interrupts (pushbutton), using the built-in timer. Should finish article this week.
Photos on Flickr
October 27th, 2005 by ynnivMy 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 1010
October 26th, 2005 by grahamCome regale and hack and Octane.
Hackfest 1001 Postmortem
October 20th, 2005 by ynniv– 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