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Well today was highly exciting… I spent most of it reinstalling MacOS X, and occasionally reading the ADD lecture notes. Yep, that’s about it. Very exciting times.

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Today’s exam was pretty mediocre. It was a fair enough exam, I guess, but just happened to include questions on the few things that I didn’t know all that well. Rob & Tony felt the same way about it, so at least we’re all unimpressed together. I wouldn’t really want to hazard a guess as… Read more

Plan 9 from Outer Space

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I just finished watching Plan 9 from Outer Space, finally. I started watching it months ago – I downloaded it last year – but ’till now just couldn’t bring myself to sit all the way through it. It was made a while ago, back in 1959, apparently before they invented acting. I think the most… Read more

Damn catchy finales

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I just watched the last episode of Lost season 2. I’ve been waiting ages to watch it… it was clear from the previous episode that nothing was actually going to be resolved. There were a few very obvious plot “twists” that were coming up, and they played out exactly as I expected. What did throw… Read more

FAT16 support

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I’ve added FAT16 support to my driver. It was as expected a pretty trivial change, since the only real difference is the size of FAT entries and the location (and size) of the root directory. I haven’t tested I/O yet, but directory traversal works fine. I’ve also realised that the current system of treating directories… Read more

Gus & Bobo’s engagement party

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Last night was Gus & Bobo’s engagement party. They held it in the function room at Davies. I think it went well. There wasn’t a whole lot in the way of speeches – Gus & Bobo both said a few words early on in the night, just before cutting the cake. Gus’ comments were good…… Read more