Stony Brook University
Yay! Stony Brook looks better and better the more a look at it :-) On Tuesday, I had my orientation, on Wednesday, I received this:
I’ll write some more about SBU once I get some free time.
Schools and school related
Ok, it is official, I’m transfering out of St. Joseph’s College. Starting in September, I’ll be attending Stony Brook University. Yay!
About two weeks ago, I happened to enter a networking class and after being informed that there was to be a tour of the networking facilities I decided to stick around. The tour happened as scheduled, and I saw what drives St. Joseph’s computer network. Some L2 and L3 switches (3com), some Sun and IBM boxes, bunch of fiber, and a lot of phone wire. On our way back to the classroom, I decided to ask the speaker why they MAC-filter the network traffic (even though they only use wired ethernet.) Anyway, about a week later, I saw the speaker and I decided to ask him for some webspace on the school website for our student chapter of ACM (believe it or not, there isn’t a single club that had a webpage on the sjcny.edu domain. All the clubs use Geocities for web and yahoo for email. Anyway, back to the story…) He remembered me, and told me that he isn’t in charge of the website, but that he can get me in touch with the webmaster. Fast forward about a week…I decided I should try to get a hold of the webmaster, so I went and visited his office. His reply to my question was: "Sure, what do you need?" To make long story short, I got the club a nice sjcny.edu URL, with PHP and MySQL support. Just what I need to set up a MediaWiki. :-) I actually set it up on my desktop, and there are a number of pages finished. Now that I’m thinking more about the implementation, I think I’ll get the club an sjcny.edu email address ;-)
Other things I can think of right now that I should do sometime soon…I absolutely hate what my resume looks like. I have to rewrite it in LaTeX. Then I have a ton of my personal sw projects which are getting nowhere. That reminds me, I should put some more work into the elevator simulator. I have this idea of removing all the random number generator stuff from the elevsim program, and instead making a second binary which generates the events using a well defined protocol which elevsim can read. This would of course mean, that implementing a real sensor array support would be trivial. All that would have to be done is the conversion of the sensory inputs into the well defined protocol. It will probably be something as simple as:
X:param1:param2:param3...
where X is a command character (this means we have 26 lowercase letters, 26 uppercase letters, 10 digits, and a bunch of misc characters giving us the total of at least 90 commands.), and a number of parameters delimited by colons. Each command of course would start on a new line. Very simple protocol format, isn’t it? Anyway, that’s just a thought. If I do make hardware sensor array easily implementable, I’ll have no choice but to implement it and create a model elevator system to test it on :-)
I think that’s enough for today :-)