Hmm schedule these days:

Tuesday, Thursday:
Wake up around 10pm (the night before), wash up and stuff.
Do some surfing maybe some playing for an hour or more...
Go to school (yes: at around 11pm-3am), work on stuff...
Go to class at 8:30am. Eat, sleep in the caf or do more work.
Go to class at 11:30am. Eat, sleep in the caf or do more work.
Go to class at 1:30pm. { if Tuesday: Eat, sleep in the caf or do more work.
Go to class at 7:00pm. }
Do more work or go home and sleep.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday:
Sleep or do more work; class at 11:30am.


Yeah it's pretty rough... haha

If you want to log in multiple times on KGS

The new CGoban 3 is a java web start application. java web start doesn't seem to allow you to start multiple copies of the same application (for cgoban at least). Anyway, for those that have multiple accounts that want to log in multiple times simultaneously, you might have thought all is lost and that you'll have to settle with the applet on the web... however, there is a way!

Yes folks and it's got to do with the fact that if you click close (with the little x at the top right) of the main window (the window with the 6 large buttons), it doesn't close the entire application. java web start doesn't seem to recognize that the application is still running (or perhaps this is a backdoor that wms coded in for us), and when you start a new cgoban, you'll have that main window again, this time with the log in button enabled! Yay!

Note: If you click on quit with the main window, it will close everything, all current children and orphan windows.

Note to wms: Even if this was unintented, please keep it as it is! It sucks having to log in through the applet.


Now if only there was a way to easily copy buddy lists and fan lists between accounts...

Things work!

Don't you love it when things just work? Well, I admit I had to spend a good hour debugging some stupid thing, but pretty much everything I've done works.

Going to optimize a few things then I just have to answer a few questions and I'll be done the first assignment! Giving me 2 full days of rest to work on other assignments... yay

I saw a few hello world's still, so maybe I'm not so far behind everyone. I doubt they'll stay enrolled much longer though. They probably won't finish it by Tuesday. That is of course unless they simply named their finished assignments as hello world, in an attempt to trick others into thinking they're making good time compared to them...

I might drop by a Go club meeting next week. I don't know though... last time was pretty bad and this time it's not even going to be an official club meeting.

Real-Time Programming

In the computer science faculty at the university of Waterloo, CS452 is commonly known as "the train course" because we move around trains and stuff.

I'm now just doing the first 'introductory' assignment... Boy is it hard. Having to time everything so everything runs smoothly is a real pain, and I am really grateful of operating systems that manage this kind of stuff.

Yesterday the substitute prof who taught this a couple years back said that one of the later assignments, having to deal with tracking the trains (with the limited number of sensors we have) is the most difficult assignment in all of our university career. (nondeterministic and all that..)

This course is probably by far the toughest undergrad CS course that you can take at UW. I have no idea why I'm taking 2 other CS project courses this term as well...

Anyway, been working on this for the whole night and the couple nights before that and I think one more night before that... so yeah my mind needed a little break and I thought I'd write an entry. Seems like everyone else is way ahead though, which begs the question, "How many hours do they have in a day? 40?"

So far, I've concentrated on UI mostly. Input and output stuff, efficiently displaying stuff on the WYSE terminal and everything. I probably focused a little too much on this area, because it's not really an area with a big constraint in terms of meeting the service times. I haven't tested anything in a while, written like 2000 lines of code since the last testing... Just crossing my fingers and hoping it will work when I get to the lab in a couple hours.

p.s. kgs3 is pretty nice. it's too bad wms is starting his full-time job. would have liked to see a few more major features added, since he claims it should be easier to add new features. i won't go as far as to wishing for him to get fired, but i hope he gets some free time to work on it soon :)

Couple funnies

Been a long time again. No long story, just a quickie.

A couple more quotes from KGS:

Starless [1d]: Donnie: too much territory eh?
Donnie [4d]: I am territorist.
touchmenot [13k]: the captain is an active participant in the war on territory

snowynight: chuyangele??
snowynight: is that your name?
chuyangele [10k]: it's my name with extention
snowynight: my name's chuayng lol
snowynight: *chuyang
chuyangele [10k]: lol
chuyangele [10k]: same
snowynight: what's ur last name?
chuyangele [10k]: Chu
snowynight: o nvm lol
chuyangele [10k]: lol
snowynight: Chu Yang, first name
Mramahi1 [8k?]: what? making sure your not the same person?