Category Archives: Ramblings

Ramblings of a somewhat more personal nature.

More Artificially Complex Problem Spaces

At the Rice Computer Science Affiliates Meeting, I just listened to an interesting talk by Keith Cooper about the PACE (platform-aware compilation environment) project. Keith mainly talked about resource and configuration detection, e.g. detecting cache sizes and alignment. Moshe Vardi … Continue reading

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AWT Exception Handler Cannot Be Reset After Exception

When testing ConcJUnit some more from inside DrJava, I noticed some weird behavior. I had a JUnit 3.8.2 version of a test, and an equivalent JUnit 4 version. Run independently, they behaved as expected (which in my line of work … Continue reading

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And the Annoying Twit of the Month Award Goes to…

And the annoying twit of the month award goes to… this guy, a student at the Ozarks Technical Community College, for his truly legendary effort of generating 38 support emails to us without considering that the problem might be in … Continue reading

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Confusing Hudson Test Failure

After moving our Hudson server to a new server, we started to experience a very confusing test failure in the Java Language Levels module. The test that failed was AdvancedLevelTest.testShouldBeErrors. It compiles the files in javalanglevels/testFiles/forAdvancedLevelTest/shouldBreak/ and makes sure that … Continue reading

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Goodbye Computer Shopper, Hello Esquire?

Please be advised that Computer Shopper magazine has ceased publication after the April 2009 issue. […] Special arrangements have been made with Esquire magazine to service your subscription for its full remaining term. You will receive three issues of Esquire … Continue reading

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Musings about Facebook Application Privacy

After reading the ACLU’s report about Facebook app privacy problems and taking the quiz demonstrating them, What Do Quizzes Really Know About You?, I was a little upset at first. The privacy settings just seemed completely insane. Let’s use one’s … Continue reading

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DrJava with Mint on Mac “Cosmetically” Closer

Sweet! DrJava with Mint on the Mac just came within reach, or at least as close as it is on the other operating systems. For some reason, when I ran DrJava under Soylatte and X11 earlier, no compilers showed up. … Continue reading

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Mint in DrJava is Tricky

I’ve been trying to get the Mint compiler to work inside DrJava. This has turned out to be more tricky than I thought. The preempting class loader that we use to load different compiler adapters is still giving me headaches, … Continue reading

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SourceForge Subversion Problems

Corky and I are having problems on the CSnet ma… Continue reading

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Academia.edu and Publications Category

A few days ago, I got an email from Academia.ed… Continue reading

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Sometimes I feel really dumb

I was reading this MixGen paper, and I came acr… Continue reading

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volatile For Synchronizing non-volatile Data

Jevgeni Kabanov on dow.ngra.de made an interes… Continue reading

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Mixed Bag

This post is just a mixed bag of things. First,… Continue reading

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Re: Dear Apple: Some Java Love, Please?

Joey Gibson expresses exactly how I feel. I lov… Continue reading

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Bad Shortcuts

Sometimes, trying to take a shortcut can make y… Continue reading

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Symphony and Exams

Yesterday, I finally went to the first symphony… Continue reading

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SourceForge Removes Shell Access, Becomes Terrible Mess

SourceForge is a terrible mess now. The old and… Continue reading

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Grad Students Not Assisted During Ike

My letter to the editor of The Thresher was pri… Continue reading

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Two Weeks, Gone With The Wind

It’s hard to believe that two weeks have truly … Continue reading

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“I’m there to learn and not them, morality can go shove it”

This doesn’t fit with anything really except th… Continue reading

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