Eric's Diary

Welcome to my diary. These are just some of my personal ramblings about life, school, work, and almost anything else. I am a member of the GDP (GNOME Documentation Project) and a lot of my thoughts might be from my dealings with them.

Quote of the Day/Week/Month

"The world is full of lonely people, each isolated in a private, secret dungeon." — Loretta Girzartis

Onto the Diary

July 19, 2000

This is my first diary entry. The most exciting thing that happened today is I bought 2 3c595 NICs from ebay to finish buying all the hardware for a small beowulf cluster. I'm going to hookup 3 motherboards, diskless hopefully, and play around with it. I was actually planning for it to crunch numbers for the Seti@Home project.

I got Kenny to put the Doctable page I made on the new GDP webpages. It at least looks better than the automatic hyperlink. People using a text-based browser and/or slower connections will like how the categories are layed out on the intro page instead of loading the whole Doctable. :)

I went and had supper with Derrick, Cory, and Chris [PEA (Practical Engineering Association)] and we talked about making fun labs for freshman to work through and having a small multiple choice placement test to see where they will start at. Some ideas were batted around, but not much was actually done. I think Derrick is going to make a template for the labs and Cory is going to write up out ideas for questions. We are talking about 32 labs for 2 years, so that breaks down into 8 labs a semester. It all depends on how many labs we make. :)

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