Wed 26 Jun 2002
June 26, 2002
Will be releasing another version of pac (my pacman clone) today, as yesterday’s discovery enabled me to get `make install’ working reliably. Version 2.2 can be found the usual place.
Tue 25 Jun 2002
June 25, 2002
After spending the whole day trying to get this macro to work in autoconf, it finally emerged that the “optional” third argument is not optional after all. Grrr!!
Mon 24 Jun 2002
June 24, 2002
My filter arrived from KEF today. Outstanding service, and cheap to boot. Top marks in my books! I ordered it last Monday, and it arrived two days later. Unfortunately the mailman had bounced it around so the part was broken upon arrival. I called up KEF, which promptly and without complaint said they’d send me a new part. I didn’t even have to hold the line to wait, or send the broken part back. Good work KEF!
Sat 15 Jun 2002
June 15, 2002
Trying to catch up with some old friends that I’ve neglected for far to long. I don’t even know if I have their correct addresses any more. Time will show I guess, if I get any response.
Wrote a list of things to sort out/buy. Will do some of the things later today (it’s 2 am now).
Fri 14 Jun 2002
June 14, 2002
Called a taxi and got my stereo moved to the new house, and cleaned up a bit at the old house. Got to new house and unpacked stereo to find that the ‘lose screw or something’ inside one of my speakers was actually one of the coils on the splitting filter. It had been broken loose by rough handling (probably when the speakers were shipped over here from Norway) and was bouncing around inside. What a drag. The whole filter needs changing. Shouldn’t be too hard to get a replacement part though, since KEF speakers are produced in the UK. Music from one speaker sounds weird.
Went to ASDA to get some food. Much needed it was too, I had nothing in my cupboard. I now have some food, but a much more modest bank balance. I do not know what I like having lots of more, money or food. A mixture of both would probably be perfect :)
Wed 12 Jun 2002
June 12, 2002
Started moving my stuff to my new house yesterday. My gf helped me clean it first, so it is really neat and clean. It is a tiny room, and without Internet connection, so I dread moving quite a bit… However, it may help me focus on other things over summer, so it may be a blessing.
Bumped the version number of my Pacman-wannabe clone. The tunnel now works! :) Get the source: pac-0.2.0.tar.gz.
Sat 08 Jun 2002
June 8, 2002
Today I bought a USB zipdrive. It’s the ‘no external power supply needed’ 250MB variant. I justify it by the intention to take backups of my work, and have even spent some time hacking up a shell script to backup some directories containing important files.
Have worked a bit on the linked list library in the past week, and I think I have something going. It is using circular doubly-linked lists now, but I am contemplating dropping the circularity of it and just let the list-head (it is a special node) have a pointer to the head and end. This will, as far as I can tell, speed up vital operations such as push()/pop(), but only marginally (two assignments less or something).
Mon 03 Jun 2002
June 3, 2002
Found out ‘the hard way’ that it is a public holiday today, when none of the companies/offices I called today would take my call.
Started experimenting with a genetic algorithm yesterday, but failed miserably. I found out the reason as well: I tried implementing everything at once, and making lots of errors in the list-handling. Thus I ended up deleting everything but the README file and started implementing a small generic linked-list library instead. I have continued to do that today, and it is getting somewhere (or so it seems…) Will have another go at the genetic algorithm soon-ish.
Sat 01 Jun 2002
June 1, 2002
Finished last exam a few days ago (Thursday) and can finally relax a bit. I Love it! :)
Hacked a bit on my pacman clone, but not added any features. It have turned into a project to teach me about project management… The present issues have been trying to get it to compile with autoconf/automake. Also, I now use arch to manage the archive instead of CVS. The link to the tarball has changed to pac-0.1.0.tar.gz.
