LEGO Mindstorms Digital Control

I have posted my Methods Report for my Senior Thesis project. It is entitled “Digital Control Investigation of the LEGO Mindstorms”, and discusses some control issues that are likely to be address while designing and implementing the project, a materials testing unit using LEGO. The paper is in Papers directory, go figure. […]

I HATE VB

The interface of the app to build the “most popular” interface in the World is just aweful. And don’t get me started on VB the programming language. Skip, this class will increase my caffeine levels and decrease my sleep and hair counts, thanks a lot. Could we do visual programming with an […]

Back to Gentoo

I have switched Linux distrobutions, yet again. Back to Gentoo, after getting tried of waiting too long for security updates from Ximian and RH10 from Red Hat. I’m all emerge’d up to Gnome 2.4 and kernel 2.6.0-test5. This is all nice and good, but why did I not get a PowerBook? […]

LOD: Filesystem discussion

There is an interesting piece at K5 about filesystems, in particular what ReiserFS v4 bring to the table. Finally EVERYTHING in UNIX is a file, the ideal has been realised.