Posts Tagged ‘ Education ’

Fun Computing Term: Thunk

  • October 29th, 2007
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Yesterday evening, when pouring through the massive amount of text that is the computing world, I encountered a very fun computing term which is none other than the word “thunk”. Now, after some un-careful research, I have determined that thunk has several, context-dependent meanings. Two of these yield some potentially unique opportunities for daily usage. [ READ MORE ]

One Man, One Bowl: The Ultimate Heuristic For Dish Management

  • October 21st, 2007
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When living with other human beings, it can become very difficult to make sure everyone takes care of their respective dishes. In fact, while everyone may agree on a strategy and plan, the agreement are generally forgotten or ignored within a few weeks. At college, I live in a flat with three other geeks. We [ READ MORE ]

What I’m Doing This Year

  • September 24th, 2007
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So, in case anyone was wondering what I’ll be doing this year in college, I’m taking this year-long program called Student Originated Software (commonly abbreviated SOS). It has four components which are: Data Structures: A study of the various containers which are used by programs to store and organize information. Examples include arrays, matrices, stacks, [ READ MORE ]

Success and Failure in the VM

  • May 1st, 2007
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Well, I set out to test Zimbra and a Desktop environment in conjunction with SELinux, and I had a few surprises along the way. First, it turns out that the open source edition of Zimbra is a giant, self-contained, beast of a product. Try as I did, I was unable to get it to install [ READ MORE ]

Testing SELinux

  • May 1st, 2007
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So, I’ve been evaluating SELinux for a number of weeks now and I’ve had a wide variety of reactions ranging from excitement to confusion. Now, I’m ready to test out SELinux to get hands on with respect to deployment. Eventually, I hope to be proficient enough with SELinux to feel comfortable deploying it on my [ READ MORE ]

Newzenflashen! Der OSLab ist bin moven der roomen!

***Sorry fur der krossenposten*** Ein bin der Ahprul, 2007 Mayn Enschteemede Kolligeners und Freindenpeeple, Das is en zerplashure mit cheekenblushen, zat ich bin anouncen ein tidnewzenbite. Der Advansener Opratin Systemer Laborworkenrum Vissnschaftlekher Institut (OSLab) ist bin movenlokashon a der undergroundenbazmant fun Lab I. Der laberworkenrum ist en der 060. Der OSLab bist a vissnschaftlekher istitut [ READ MORE ]

Things To Learn

  • February 23rd, 2007
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I have not had a great deal of time recently. That being said, I have accrued a list of subjects I desire to learn and technologies I wish to become familiar with. Some of them are neat and others are less captivating. If anyone sees something on this list that they find interesting, please do [ READ MORE ]

Go Atomic

  • January 30th, 2007
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I have a great deal of trouble explaining RSS to folks. It doesn’t matter when I call it Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site Summary (or worse yet, RDF Site Summary), the truth is that RSS is designed for a fairly specific purpose: making portable and parseable the content of blogs. Now, before I continue, [ READ MORE ]

I Am A Scientist!

Today, more than ever before, it is official that I am a scientist. While it’s true that I’ve had a lab for coming up on a year, I attended my first grant workshop and bought my first lab coat. These two things are important for just as many reasons. I need grant money to keep [ READ MORE ]

Feeling Random?

This quarter is over! Huzzah! You can access the varying parts of this quarters work,completed along with delightful dev partner, Altan Orhon, as follows: Original project poster Slides from our talk (with accompanying handout) Randomly generated music on the blues scale Randomly generated art (thanks to Processing) Our final paper and appendix Code repo (messy?) [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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