Home again, Home again jiggidy jog
Back from school. My best semester yet with respect to grades, at lease one A and two A- course grades so far. I don't know about the other three, but I don't think I did worse than a B in any of them.
In other news, I'm already back at work again doing the exact same thing I did last year. Except this summer, I get credits. 6 of them and a near guaranteed A. I feel good. It's been fun so far and I've been productive. We might migrate our entire build structure from Ant to Maven in the near future. If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it. It's a little technical.
I'll be building myself a new computer over the summer. It's be an AMD Am2 socket with an NVidia nForce SLI chipset. A 2.1 GHz AMD64 X2 will be the processor and and graphics card is a GeForce 8600GT with 256mg of memory. It should be pretty nice with lots of room to improve and wasn't all that expensive. The entire system was under $800, which is only two weeks of work for me and it should remain current with only minor upgrades years to come.
I'm going to try to resume conversation with Mr. Powell soon, I've been posting pieces of our conversation at a slow pace, but the last actual email I sent him was over two months ago. I had to stop because of school, but now I should have some more free time.
Also, a note to anyone who reads this, It's been a long while since I've received a comment. I know my friends read this, I've seen you. I'd still write even if nobody read or commented but it's nice to know that somebodies listening. Even more, I like reviews on my ideas and opinions. If you agree, say so; if I'm an idiot, inform me so I can mend my ways. Even if you have no opinion, some partial thoughts would help.
And finally, I want one of these. An eight core processor with 32 simultaneous threads seems to be about the coolest thing ever. The hardware JVM seems kind of fun as well, even if it's only really good for servlets.
In other news, I'm already back at work again doing the exact same thing I did last year. Except this summer, I get credits. 6 of them and a near guaranteed A. I feel good. It's been fun so far and I've been productive. We might migrate our entire build structure from Ant to Maven in the near future. If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it. It's a little technical.
I'll be building myself a new computer over the summer. It's be an AMD Am2 socket with an NVidia nForce SLI chipset. A 2.1 GHz AMD64 X2 will be the processor and and graphics card is a GeForce 8600GT with 256mg of memory. It should be pretty nice with lots of room to improve and wasn't all that expensive. The entire system was under $800, which is only two weeks of work for me and it should remain current with only minor upgrades years to come.
I'm going to try to resume conversation with Mr. Powell soon, I've been posting pieces of our conversation at a slow pace, but the last actual email I sent him was over two months ago. I had to stop because of school, but now I should have some more free time.
Also, a note to anyone who reads this, It's been a long while since I've received a comment. I know my friends read this, I've seen you. I'd still write even if nobody read or commented but it's nice to know that somebodies listening. Even more, I like reviews on my ideas and opinions. If you agree, say so; if I'm an idiot, inform me so I can mend my ways. Even if you have no opinion, some partial thoughts would help.
And finally, I want one of these. An eight core processor with 32 simultaneous threads seems to be about the coolest thing ever. The hardware JVM seems kind of fun as well, even if it's only really good for servlets.
Labels: AMD, Bill Powell, commenting, computer, grades, Home, NVidia, School, UltraSparc T1, work, year end
posted by Andrew Stine at 10:48 AM
5 Comments:
I don't have time for any kind of profound comment right now, so all I will say is, Andrew, you are such a nerd! *hug*
I read your blog Andrew. Almost as much as you read mine.
Just double checking (or trolling really). I know my recent material is hard to comment on (read dull). I've been posting about economics for cryin out loud.
Oh, and heres for nerdy, I just found out how easy it would be to convert all my old computers into a computing cluster. Sort of a very lowend super computer in my basement. That's going to be my second project for the summer. (The practice should be good for when I need to set up servers next year)
JMJ
I read Andrew!
>poke< I read your blog. Could you summarize (in simple terms that a non-polisci/econ major can understand) what you and Mr. Powell are talking about? I think I get it, but I'm not sure. As to the computers, have fun!:) I need more room on MacAlister...thinking of buying an external. Any recommendations?
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