Muli Ben-Yehuda's journal

The CADR machine, a revised form for the CONS Lisp machine. Stuff to read while I wait for the aib (Aggressive Idle Balancing, details to follow) aib-b1 patch to finish compiling.

“Worse is Better”? Jim Waldo claims that not really, Worse is simply Worse.

I had an interesting idea today, combining two of my favorite computational pasttimes, lisp and operating systems. Need to ruminate on it some more and write it up.

Being the trident sound card driver kernel maintainer, my second worst
nightmare is some unrelated change in a different part of the kernel
breaking my module just before 2.6.0-final ships. My worst nightmare,
in case you were wondering, if finding such a change, and before I
have time to come out with a fix, having 2.6.0-final ship…

At least it’s working fine with 2.6.0-test11. ladypine and
me are currently listening to “moving on up” (Full Monte soundtrack)
on it. There shouldn’t be too many opportunities for screw ups before
2.6.0-final ships with Linus’s code freeze. Is that Murphy laughing in
the distance?

One brute force forward patch later, and 2.6.0-t11-shpte boots but does not run userspace. Time to debug, me’thinks…

The last few days have been lousy for reasons too numerous and mundane to count. There is one good thing about it, though – the reasonable assumption that today will be better.

I screwed up. I hate screwing up, especially when it’s my unmitigated fault and there exist no extenuating circumstances. Feh. I miscalculated how many exercizes I would have to submit in Algorithms class due to not reading the fine print[1] and now I will probably have to take it again. There’s some good with the bad, because it will allow me to concentrate on my other classes this semester and achieve a high grade, but it also sucks, because I hate taking classes again.

[1] Actually, I read it, just didn’t comprehend.