I think that may always be the case, especially when the resulting program is a function of what I’m asked to do! I was instead considering how, give experience in mathematical reasoning and programming, one writes increasingly concise code. Because of the intense usefulness of Maths in programming, I cannot grok my fellow students’ disapproval […]
Author Archives: Shaun
FreeBSD on the Desktop: How much are we giving up?
I’ve been running FreeBSD for awhile now. Looking back at my posts, it appears that I hammed up my Slackware installation right around the turn of the new year so near abouts three-and-a-half months. FreeBSD on the desktop, if you’ve experienced it, is a learning experience. So much that at times I feel like I’m […]
Mp3’s and blog posts.
Word on the street is that Morningsiders would like to embed MP3 files in their posts. This sounds like a cool idea, so I’ve sat down and see that WordPress can already do something like this: brobob Sounds good. How to do it? Step 1, have a mp3 file. =) That’s easy. Step 2, choose […]
Helping a little, old (rich) lady
One day, on the drive home from work, I witnessed an elderly lady in battered clothes struggling. Her wheelie basket, piled with laundry, had gotten stuck. In an unexpected and unprecendented pang of empathy, I stopped and offered assistance. Delighted to have me after, apparently, struggling for some time I was quickly able to pop […]
I killed my workstation…
I cannot believe it. ~120 days uptime on my Slackware13.1-AMD64 system. I decided I needed to re-arrange my office. It was time for a change. Well, everything was nearly in place. When I went to slide my (running) PC back I accidentally touched the power switch on the rear after warning myself not to. Evidently, […]