Getting to sleep in is always a good thing. No networking today meant only one class (in which we watch a goblet be shattered by sound), and work. Work involved playing with lpd and getting a printing system working for the kiosk machines when they are in unrestricted mode (a way to allow public web browsing/research after showing appropriate ID to prevent abuse). That should make the library happy. "Big quiz" tomorrow in AI, which doesn't sound like fun, but doesn't seem hard either (probably a bad sign). My puzzle solver is still going crazy trying to brute-force it. I'm guessing at some point I should look for an algorithm to solve it properly. Maybe we'll discover something in class tomorrow...

Roaming profiles - such a pain, but then you realise the alternatives and the problems they'd cause. I ended up fixing a machine which had been corrupting the profile of everyone who had logged in over the past two weeks or so, and fixed/reset a few profiles from that. Then there was an unrelated one where her profile just kept getting messed up and she couldn't get to her files or print. Another person who was over quota and had no clue why, and another person who just needed to clean some old junk out of her profile... And those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head... Why couldn't Microsoft have just had them work off the server rather than copy & sync? Wait, the servers are running Windows...they can't be depended on to be reliable... Anyways, I guess the day ended up well since I went to Rudolph's for some really good wings. Dave and I didn't know where it was, both our phones were dead, and 10 managed to lose us when some car cut between us, but we ended up making it OK... Except now I smell like smoke. Oh well, it's a tradeoff...

Well, class today was the usual. Lab went really quick, which was good. I ended up spending a significant portion of the day working on AI homework, which was a bit of a pain. It's automated reasoning, and we're working on demodulators, although it'd be nice to know how the code which handles the demodulators worked. We didn't really get many instructions other than it runs them repeatedly and the basic format. It'd be nice to take a look at the code for the interpreter, as many good rules for demodulating can form loops if executed in certain orders, but work great in others. While it finds every possible output without loops now, I unfortunately can't tell how stable that would if someone started poking... Oh well, at least the rest of the class seemed to be in the same boat, and we got our quiz pushed back to Thursday...

So Twister has a lot of surround and LFE...like a lot. I feel like I got nothing done today, but oh well - it's a weekend. I did split loom tubing up to the projector today, which means all the cables run through it and don't have any tension on themselves, which is better (I'm guessing especially for VGA). While I was at it, I added an RS-232 cable in there which eventually will have the other end hooked to something too. Figured out another cable in the subwoofer channel was going goofy (one of the 1/4" balanced to RCA cables) while running the split loom since it kept moving that cable and it was intermittent. Replaced that, and now another annoying intermittent buzzing is gone. I managed to stay awake this long which is a feat considering I half slept through church and Sunday School this morning. I don't think I'm gonna press my luck any more though.

Saturdays are always fun, because I don't have to get up until 1 in the afternoon... I did manage to get up then and go buy some audio isolation transformers, which made me happy since the buzz from the one sub is gone now. I also went over to a little party at schdav's place. Nick and 10 were over there the whole time, and we had a bonfire and burgers on the grill and brooke and Steph and 10's roommate showed up too. Then Jeff came over, and brooke and Steph left, and we split up and Dave and I watched The Negotiator while the others watched the new Harry Potter movie. Fun night was had by all... Way too late though, since I have to get up early for church tomorrow...

Just finished watching Snatch since everyone was telling me how great of a movie it was. I liked the way they cut the scenes around high action/drama areas, and the way they mixed in Angel was nice too. Probably not the best movie to have that loud after midnight, but oh well. I do have to complain about how the number of flashes from the barrel of the guns didn't always match the number of shots fired based on sound and kick of the gun though... Tomorrow should be good since there's a little party over at schdav's place... That means I'll have to be awake before 1800 though. Hopefully I won't have to set my alarm. Actually I need to go shopping for an isolation transformer anyways to get rid of an annoying ground loop - it's been driving me nuts for a week...

Actually got some stuff done today. I have a computer sending itself email every few minutes, and actually checking it's box and reading the message, which sounds really goofy but has a point. The sending checks that both email frontend servers are up, and the checking part makes sure that all the internal routing is working along with authentication and IMAP, and it all happens in a timely manner. Then I spent a few hours with my group for Networking working on our homework assignment. I actually decided to spend some time on physics, so actually researched and calculated the pressure that an elephant vs a woman wearing high heels would put on the floor. Crazy part is that one half a question is about half of my assignment by size. Oh well, should be interesting reading for the TA.

Pretty usual day with classes and work. I didn't get finished with homework during class, partially because I messed up and got big white spots from the flash in some pictures, and partially because any problem that required even remembering stuff like that water weights 9800N/m³ and using it to calculate the pressure on the bottom of a dam was deemed too much thinking for class time... I did end up doing it this evening though. Reprinted AI without a typo this time and also got asked about the homework by so many people I stopped keeping track. I finally got around to putting IMP on webmail (DNS may not have propogated everywhere yet), which is a lot better than the old cyclonic mailer thing. Now I just need to get an IMAP server up and running on the new server and migrate the mail over to it... Drew also loaned me Snatch which I haven't seen, so I'll probably end up watching that sometime this weekend when it won't cut into sleep time.

I finished my AI homework the day it was assigned. I think that's a first for me with homework in a long time... I also took pictures of the assignment pages for my other class, with the hope I can finish it during class tomorrow. Today Jeff's friend got sick and had to be airlifted to Texas for a bit. Hopefully it'll be better and back soon since he looked rather bored in class today, and probably won't look any more excited tomorrow... Avoiding Windows was enough incentive to get the linux box completely set up though, which I guess is a good thing long term. In case you didn't know, modern projectors are cool because you can hook a serial cable up to the console port and they act like a computer... Why do I have the feeling that I'll be writing code to talk to the serial port in the semi-near future? Well, the interesting class is at 9 tomorrow, so should try to be awake for that...

Oops... A couple bugs... I think I managed to squash them now though, but I'll keep watching to be sure something crazy doesn't happen...