Wow, the forums have been dead this weekend, so I thought I would post this message. What is everyone so busy doing :) ? I always find it interesting to hear about everyone elseââ,¬â,,¢s projects and such. Tell us what you are up to, perhaps it will start up some new conversation?!? Anyway, I am going to get back to my senior project work. Feel free to check out my group's progress, rafs.cs.siue.edu (http://rafs.cs.siue.edu/)
Peter
I could not find a better place to post this... but I found it amusing enough to squeeze it in here.
Here is what happens when you unleash students on a UNIX system to do a program with fork and exec...
Note the load average:
root@solar:~# uptime
10:57pm up 244 day(s), 12:59, 5 users, load average: 43.39, 43.29, 43.21
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
17870 fengy 1 23 0 1568K 1256K run 19:59 5.68% consumer
17869 fengy 1 33 0 1568K 1256K cpu/2 19:42 5.57% consumer
17868 fengy 1 32 0 1568K 1256K run 19:35 5.56% consumer
18073 fengy 1 32 0 1568K 1208K run 18:14 5.54% consumer
18076 fengy 1 23 0 1568K 1256K run 18:34 5.54% consumer
17876 fengy 1 52 0 1568K 1256K run 19:08 5.52% consumer
18075 fengy 1 23 0 1568K 1256K run 17:36 5.47% consumer
17875 fengy 1 32 0 1568K 1256K run 19:49 5.41% consumer
18078 fengy 1 33 0 1568K 1256K run 17:37 5.38% consumer
18077 fengy 1 32 0 1568K 1256K run 17:54 5.37% consumer
17873 fengy 1 33 0 1568K 1256K run 19:22 5.36% consumer
17879 fengy 1 23 0 1568K 1208K run 18:47 5.33% consumer
18087 fengy 1 32 0 1568K 1208K run 17:41 5.32% consumer
18074 fengy 1 33 0 1568K 1256K run 18:21 5.27% consumer
18079 fengy 1 33 0 1568K 1256K run 17:57 5.16% consumer
Perhaps I should have edited the name of the user out... But I thought public embarrasment for not cleaning up after themselves was appropriate. Actually, I was too lazy...
Peter
Don't worry. I don't even know who that is. I wouldn't even know him if he ran into me in the hallway knocking me down.
Jon
Here's some of the latest stuff:
Journal paper with Dr. M. Stephen and Kristin Caufield on "Teaching Participatory Design in HCI" to the Journal of Computer Science Education
Conference paper with Erin Ecker on the "Effects of Social Facilitation and Electronic Monitoring on Usability" to the annual ACM conference on HCI.
Summer Research Fellowship proposal on "The Effects of Robot Competitions on Student's Attitudes toward Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology" to SIUE Grad School.
Oh, and then there are the usual things of such as teaching,graduate program director stuff, advising, fixing robots (which is almost done), helping IME 106 robot competition, working on research and graduate projects, senior projects.
Well, there is more, but no time to post it. :-o
What's been keeping me busy this weekend?
Senior Project! (I'm sure that's nobody else's reason)
Working for the family business. (My dad's crew has gone from 5 this summer to just himself right now, so he needed some help)
Working on the family farm. (We finished harvesting our conventional soybeans this weekend)
Did I mention Senior Project?
I installed RedHat Linux 7.3 (succesfully) on my desktop, and 6.1 (with display problems) on my laptop.
--Beanie
I heard RedHat 8.0 is going to be out soon, perhaps that would help your display problems.
The release date is in the next few days... But I am not sure when the ISO will be available.
Peter
SuSE 8.1 will be out October 7 :-)
Jon