The Treehouse Blog

The Mid-Atlantic ACM Regionals are now over. Looks like our team isn’t going on this year (you can see the whole results here). My teammates were complaining that problem ambiguity was partially to blame, but I’m not sure how that would be, given that all teams had the same set of problems.

I have Oak and Cedar upgraded to FC3 as well, now. NFSv4 is feeling happier regarding permissions mappings, however the particular reason I avoided NFSv4 in the past seems to still be present… Gnumeric locks up on saving a file to an NFSv4 share. I’ve worked around this by mounting that particular share with NFSv3 and everthing else with v4. Evolution also is a lot faster in FC3, however it is also uglier. I’m not a big fan of the Mac-like folder interface that leaves out the lines between folders that I’m so fond of.

Looks like Kevin has a blog now. I didn’t know that.

I’m contemplating making an offer on the house of my late great uncle. It’s a small place, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to consider it a “cottage.” Nothing definite, but I do have a cautious optimism for the situation (sortof like tomorrow’s election…). It does have the potential for one essential feature… cable Internet via Kuhn. It might not be Comcast, but it’s got to be better than ISDN… and cheaper too, if you can believe that. Having my own place, and some more room to spread out is appealing, albeit at the cost of immediate access to the peace of the gamelands. Chris would be very nearby (perhaps some wireless?), and Ship (and therefore Doug) would be somewhat closer as well. So, I’ve been playing with mortgage calculators and monthly expenses projections. Fun stuff.

In other news, Axim task list is at 39, the Palm is now sold (yeah!), and Stargate is still consuming too much of my time. We’ve had two NetMRG releases and Doug and I spent Sunday in Caledonia doing amateur radio stuff. So, stuff happening to some degree.

The car is inspected and repaired now. A weld gave way on the front end of the first catalytic converter, which has been corrected… by welding. Not bad, considering. Ridge Road east of 233 has now been added to the Escort’s blacklist (‘locked out of the dialing program’ in SG-1 parlance).

Chris has Kuhn cable internet now. I helped him set up his firewall tonight. Pretty fast. Might just have to move into the neighborhood to get me some fast ‘net…

Axim’s tasklist is now at 30. Really need a way to graph that…

The car’s in for scheduled inspection, and hopefully to remedy the exhaust leak resulting from Sunday’s trip that Doug had mentioned. Fall Break wasn’t very breakish as those days ended up filled with work instead of school. Watching Stargate, trying to knock off tasks on the Axim, etc. Looking into some graduate programs… rather disappointed that Ship has neither masters programs in Physics nor Math. Unfortunately, regardless of the degree, it’s probably more valuable for the resume than the learning. PSU’s programs are all out of State College of course, which isn’t really desirable. Oh well, plodding along for now.