Dave Kellam

A bit of mad programming today. I was working on my computer assignment, made a program to figure out the thermal expansion of various metals and a program to convert celsius into farenheit and vice-versa. It’s kind of a bastard trying to get these things to work, when you’re testing it, but 0 degrees celsius and it tells you the temperature in farenheit is infinity, you know you have a problem. All fixed up now though, I just have to do the documentation for the programs and I’m done the assignment.

Tried installing a bunch of different things last night. Had corel linux on the computer for awhile. It didn’t like being in a partition above the 8gb mark though, so i ended up deleting it. Then I installed BeOS. It installed well, detected my video card and network card alright, I think my soundcard is kind of sketchy. It figured out the card was by creative but it wouldnt play any sounds. I have to figure out the network settings for the queen’s servers so I can connect from be. For some reason it wouldnt detect automatically. Watched fight club again last night.

Didn’t do a whole lot last night. Met up with cam and went out to his place on west campus. His room is smaller than mine. We went out cosmic bowling with a bunch of people from west. I didn’t actually bowl, only 12 people at a time could, so we just sat in the background and had a couple beers. Time to sit down and get some work done, have a number of assignments to do.

Did work this afternoon, i’m going to try and get a bit done now, before i do anything tonite. Friday night doing work, sad. Never would have happened last year.

Perhaps liquid crack would satisfy the homeless and the hungry.

I got my computer back earlier today. They got it done early, that’s how to make me happy. So i’ve been spending some time re-installing stuff and browsing around the internet. I’ll try and get some of my notes typed up tonite, catch up a bit. Only have one class tomorrow, maybe i’ll get some work done.

3D printing?

I talked to ITS on the telephone this afternoon. They didn’t even get around to looking at my computer until earlier today and they discovered that i was going to need a new harddrive. Wow, they have some real geniuses working over there. I told them last friday that i had bad sector error’s and was going to need a new harddrive. They could have ordered me a new one then, but they didn’t. Now, i’m going to have to wait until at least friday to get it back, a slim possibility of getting it tomorrow or after the weekend.

Bah, i can’t go check out the sites i goto everyday, or waste my many hours on the machine. I have been getting a lot of reading done, although it is hard to type of notes without a computer. Yes, i’ve been typing notes. It’s kind of like re-writing them, but i can type a lot faster than i write, so it’s more productive.

My computer is with its right now. I had a bunch of bad sector error’s, must have just been a bad drive. I’m without computer tonite, so i’ll probably do a good chunk of reading. I can’t type up any notes, that’s the one bad thing about not having a computer sitting in front of me.

Haven’t been writing as much lately, had a busy weekend, although i didn’t get the much work finished. I have a computer assingment due tonite at midnight, should be fun getting it finished. It’s one of those things that doesn’t appear to be too hard, but it keeps presenting you with new problems when you think you have it figured out. One more class to go today; psychology.