Passed! So, I don’t have to worry about that anymore. The last big worry is the Spring schedule, and I’m not sure when that comes out… I had all sorts of frustrations with my Programming Language class today. I went to school an hour early to use one of the Windows labs because we have to turn in Windows executables which I think is a really stupid requirement. Providing a windows executable has absolutely nothing to do with my ability to code in the specified languages. Anyway, the COBOL compiler worked fine, after I spent half an hour figuring out…
My senior year at the University of Mobile, I schemed a plot and persuaded my buddy Cris to help me carry it out. I spent the night at her dorm room, and we got up very early and donned all black clothes. Unfortunately, we hadn’t set our alarm early enough, because it was already light by the time we got up. We were the only people up and about, except for the security guard patrolling in her little car. Unfortunately, this made us stick out. Fortunately, security at UM has never cared about much of anything. We went out to…
Well, so far my least enjoyable class has been Operating System design. The textbook is wonderful (Tanenbaum!), the material is something I’m very interested in, but the professor is absolutely boring. He’s a grad student who doesn’t appear to have taught a class before, so I’m hoping he’ll get better as the semester progresses. The best thing he’s mentioned is that our first project will be to implement a new system call in Linux, and the second project will be to implement our own process scheduler for Linux. This sounds like a substantial amount of work, but should be fun.…
And apparently hit a double.
And, apparently, back in the day, Jonah figured I wouldn’t be able to manage it without some help. Or I asked for help. Neither of us remember. This would have been one of my first days at UD, August 1998.