12:45

Code
Been spending most of my days writing either C or Java. Java for my project which is easy and fun. C for another class, which is hard and fun. I think I mentioned that I have to write "ls" - man that's quite a tedious task, I realized. Now I have to working quite neatly so far, only to find out that IRIX does not have fts.h, while NetBSD does not have ftw.h,
Now I have the choice of re-writing most of the code in lots of ifdefs or writing my own fts-like library. What a pain in the ass. Also, I have not yet thought about how I format the output - just plain white-spaces and tabs don't do it, so I guess I have to print all the info into a string which I format at the end?
I shouldn't look at the ls-source, I guess - but I might take a peek.

Movie
Saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on Friday. That was fun. Very cool and stylish, though not that fantastic as people say it is. I mean, 10 Oscar nominations?

Cheap Plug
Linux Journal published an article of mine on their website: Usenet is still a strange place. That's neat.

10:20am

Movie
Saw High Fidelity last night. Enjoyed it. When it came out last year, I didn't think I would want to watch it, because the previews looked kinda stupid and didn't really tell you what the movie was about (it's not about this guy and his record-store and him being funny), but it actually was very entertaining. Easy entertainment for a mellow evening.

School
I really like this class "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" - it's nice to finally have a class where we do what I like. Our midterm project will be to write "ls" as specified by the NetBSD man-pages. Actually looks like quite some work - you never really appreciate these little programs...

My Senior Design Project is coming along well - did a lot of Java hacking and we are actually a little ahead of schedule with respect to our first milestone. It's fun to have a "real" project and do all these meetings and code-review etc for school.

Misc
taj: if you want to learn to program your Palm, get O'Reilley's "Palm Programming - The Developers Guide", it's a good book. Also, palm has a lot of documentation on their website. I myself wrote some documentation when I programmed for the palm last summer, you can check it out here.

mrorganic is right - USENET is a fun (weird) place to spend some time. And, yes, one does need some good filters.

And I also want <code></code> tags...

2pm

School
This school is a complete mess. Yesterday, classes were calcelled due to the snowstorm. Ok, that's neat. Now this morning, I get up, it's a bright and shiny sunny day outside, so I go into school, and guess what? Morning classes were cancelled up until 10am. And the email telling me this was sent out at 10:30am. *sigh* they always do that.

Movie
Saw Heat last night. Pretty good, I must say. In the beginning there were a bunch of scenes that were hard to understand, context wise, but in general a pretty good movie. I still don't get over it how old Pacino is - compared to The Godfather!

JServ and Webmail
Made some progeess: all the default servlets coming with JServ are working, no prob there. When configuring Webmail I do get a lot to work, at least as far as the error-log is concerend (a lot of "checking xyz... ok" etc), but then it complains about a JavaException "MethodNotFound". Great, methodnotfound even though CLASSPATH and all that crap seems right. I don't know, maybe I'll put the project on ice for a few days - got some Homework for thie Network managmanet class to do - some SNMP stuff.

10:41

JServ and Webmail
I'm trying to set up Webmail on my Debian machine. So I need jserv - no prob:

apt-get install jserv

Gotta love apt-get! So JServ seems to be working: http://localhost/jserv/ tells me some stats. OK. Now let's get webmail:

apt-get install webmail

Webmail gets downloaded, unpacked, installed, configured and it tellsme it's running and working now. I check the configuration files:

/etc/jserv/jserv.conf
/etc/jserv/jserv.properties
/usr/lib/webmail-0.7.6/webmail.properties

They all seem fine.

/usr/sbin/apachectl restart

Ok, apache restarts. I check http://localhost/webmail/webmail/admin as suggested, but I get an Internal Server Error. Hmmm...

tail /var/log/apache/errorlog
[Mon Feb 5 10:16:01 2001] [emerg] JServ: ajp12: can not connect to host 127.0.0.1:8007



[Mon Feb 5 10:16:01 2001] [emerg] JServ: ajp12: connection fail



[Mon Feb 5 10:16:01 2001] [error] JServ: an error returned handling request via protocol "ajpv12"

Now what? Installation from hand had the same effect. All configuration-options seem to be correct, $CLASSPATH etc. seem correct...

Well, this is my first Servlet to be isntalled, problems were bound to happen. If anybody got an idea, I'll be thankful for all hints.

School
Got a boring-ass Microprocessor-Lab at 1pm - but it just started snowing big thick flakes and they foresaid a snowstorm. Still hoping that class will be cancelled (yes, they sometimes do this over here - if it snows a little, they callit a snow"storm" and cancel classes occasionally :)



Man, it's coming down. Looks very wet - note to self: bring umbrella.

22:22

gman wrote:

I read a book with the lines "Be who you are, not what you think you are" and it made me think just a little.

How would you know the difference? Wouldn't you just think you knew who you are?