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
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
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
While replacing the headlight yesterday (which is to say, while watching John replace the headlight for me <:) ) my mum noticed that the transmission coolant hose to the radiator was right up against the edge of the fan. In fact, once we looked at it closely, we could see that the fan has been… Read more
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
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
So, a few days ago I showed file reading working with my FAT driver. Today, I give you writing. It took a little bit of tweaking to get right; I made a few mistakes here and there. I’m not 100% confident in it yet, but it’s at least working for the simple case – opening… Read more