HackerLife 2.0

School

2004-08-26T05:52:35Z

Yeah, back in school. Everything's great except psychology, which is supposed to only be for seniors. So much stuff to read! And it's only a one semester course. I read 50 pages in that huge book tonight. If the quiz on Monday is hard, no doubt I'll fail it. If I do badly on the quiz, I'm going to drop the course- it's not worth screwing over my GPA for one semester of psych.

Rawr. Oh, and perl modules don't work well with ActivePerl on my machine... not sure why.

... more on the weekend.

California 2600 Ski Trip

2004-08-23T02:55:42Z

Okay, for those of you that know me in real life, but somehow don't know what ca2600 is, it's this. California 2600. CA2600.org. We're the California Hackers, a group of about 50 of us. I'm both a web admin and a channel operator. Big bad David is big bad Code_Dark online.

Okay, so, one of our newer members, raven, has been planning all these Sacramento events (sac2600). Well, we just thought of the best event ever, for all of California... a California 2600 ski trip.

Ooooh, yeah. Most likely, Ragnar and I would drive up to Orange County, pick up gh0st, then drive up to whereever we're going to ski. This is probably a 5 day long trip. Almost all of us would be going. Oh. My. God.

TIME TO WAR-SKI, BABY!

Considering a switch

2004-08-22T09:37:40Z

Well, I'm about 200 lines into the god forsaken autokey cipher... I'm seriously considering stopping, and recoding it in C++, or even Java. It's one of those things that is just like... eh. I don't really know enough about string manipulation in Perl to go on much more. Running it with the #!perl -w flag spews out all sorts of errors, mostly about my weird usage of substr. Bleh. I also want to start back up with Python. I'm not sure about anything at the moment, but I'll be sure to let you know.

Oh, I met lp_ql and Ragnar today at Pannikin. It was kickass.

Crypto Log Part I

2004-08-20T19:39:53Z

So, I've been writing this encryption program in Perl that's a nice little autokey cipher. Well, I'm about 50 lines into it, and damn, I miss Switch/case. Also, I tried to install the Net:IRC perl module for writing a quick IRC bot, but no- even getting Microsoft-make nmake, I couldn't install the bloody thing. Apparently I should stick with the core language. Anyway, Rachel and I are planning to go to the movies with anyone who wants to come tonight, so, that might be fun. lp_ql is coming over from Las Vegas to spend the weekend with Ragnar, so I might hook up with them and party downtown, or... something.

Perl!

2004-08-19T20:53:32Z

Arr, Perl is both extremely versatile and extremely bulky at the same time. Very weird. I'm gonna start perl networking as soon as I can (any book recommendations?), and I'm gonna get right on the crypto stuff. Fun fun fun.

Oh, and my friend doesn't hate me. *dance*

Arrgh.

2004-08-19T18:55:14Z

Rawr. I'm having a bad start to a day. I was talking to one of my friends online, and she got quite angry at me since I didn't particularly want to call californiagrl36. Gar, I'm very depressed now, I mean, I don't want her to be mad at me. :(

I started Perl last night, and I'm thinking about creating a Vigenère Square encryption algorithm in it, since I don't really know any networking stuff yet with it. If I do that, I'll get perl2exe and release it. Or maybe just the .pl file for those of you that have Perl on your computers. Gah, I hope my friend doesn't hate me. It's very depressing now.

Oh, and I think I'm gonna make a ca2600 LJ community. There's a lot of interest in it. Speaking of ca2600, GiD might not be able to continue hosting ca2600.org... so, let's all pray he can. I'm almost tempted to write a worm or something. Release my anger. I know enough networking stuff... but no, that would be unethical, and all that shit. Bah. I'll just code my huge-ass encryption algorithm. No biggie.

PGP Anyone?

2004-08-18T18:35:15Z

Well, I was bored, and thinking that for all of the PGP keys that I've exchanged, I don't really get that much as far as encrypted email goes. So, here's the deal: I want you guys to get PGP (that link is to PGP freeware) if you don't have it, and generate a keypair. Give me your public key via e-mail or a comment in this very blog entry, and I will give you all mine. That way, we can send each other encrypted email, and everyone will be happy. I won't bitch at you for sending me email, and I won't have to be paranoid that the Feds are reading all my ca2600 email. Cause, I mean, a 1024 bit key is pretty big. It will at least delay them, right? Right? Mmmk.

As you can see on my user info page, there is a link to my public key. This key can also be reached here at ca2600's website and here, at MIT's public keyserver.

So, yeah. Go do that now. Go. Shoo.

Oh, my personal life. Yeah, I forgot about that. I've had some coffee this morning, and didn't really do anything yesterday except hang around, get some much-needed programs back on my computer, and rewrote the framework for my java telnet server. I need to make it multithreaded again, though, which might take a little while... oh well. californiagrl36 still hasn't signed online, and I haven't spoken to her since I got back! Meh. I can't think of anything else to write. Oh. One more thing. One of my friends has created a code-cipher thing using Vigenère Square. Here it is, go about cracking it you crypto gurus, you: ORMMIAKXMALGQRH

Just sitting around

2004-08-17T16:26:08Z

Well, I'm just sitting around the house at the ungodly hour of 9:22am. I like to think it's due to jet lag, but in that case it should feel like 11:23am. Of course, that would mean I would have gone to bed at about 5:00am. Odd. Well, I got up about an hour ago. Isn't five hours enough sleep for anyone? For some reason Anna isn't online, which is kind of weird. I'm not sure what's up with that.

Well, today isn't gonna be a good day. I have to email Mr. Weber and explain to him that I can't take AP Computer Science this year. I was his best student. I'm still gonna tutor and help my friends, though, that are in that class. I'm taking psychology as my elective, as, well, you can see from that link in my last post. Also, I think I might email SDSC today and quit. I can't continue to work once school starts, but the project isn't even in full swing! It's very sad and depressing. I probably won't get paid, but I mean what the hell! They said it was only gonna be a month...

Gar, I'm depressed, unhappy, fully patched on Windows, and I don't know what to do. Even Stirling hasn't been around since I came back... what's up with that? Arr, masterg, I need j00!

And I'm Home

2004-08-17T06:06:42Z

Yep, I'm home now. I had to overcome quite a bit of vertigo on the second plane ride, which was unpleasant (I swear these pilots may as well be homeless bums drunk out of their minds), and now I'm home. Wow, it's really depressing. Who knows when I'll see Ben again? Plus, school starts in SIX DAYS! Eek! For those of you at LJCDS (or perhaps just those of you that are curious), you can see my schedule. If you have a class with me, please email me at dave.shaw@gmail.com ... thanks.

Gar, I'm just depressed now. And wired. Oh well, good to be home, I suppose.

Not Much Happening

2004-08-15T02:54:36Z

Well, not too much is happening... I'm coming home on Monday, so that is kind of looming, but, eh, that's about it. I'll post my schedule here when I get home. Oh, and I finished 1984. Great, great book. I have to read All The Pretty Horses and Antigone now, though... rawr.

And so I sit

2004-08-08T05:09:49Z

Apparently it's the eighth here already. Damn jet lag, since it only feels like 10... that means that I won't feel tired for another four hours... great. Well, I told my mom before to get me out of French III Honors, and Ben confirmed that it's a good idea. I think I'll do better and enjoy french more in the easier class. Ben is off talking on my phone long distance to Anna, and using MY phone. Great. I don't even know where he is. God damnit. Argh, I'm just really stressed and frustrated. Having a mid-life crisis a bit early, I suppose you could say. I just realized that life is shit aside from two things: friends and love. That can really all be covered under love, though, in the end. Man. I don't feel so hot. I'm gonna sit here and be pissed. Great.

In Wisconsin

2004-08-07T21:01:45Z

Yes, I'm in Wiscosin. Yes, Torrie (Ben's dog) raped me last night. Yes, I went to the National Mustard Festival. Yes, I actually slept in Ben's bed until he kicked me out (fucker). Yes, Ben just threatened to pull out my facial hair with his bare hands. Ow. We may be going camping/fishing some time (me, Ben, Ben's dad), or not. Whatever. ... ... ... Ben committed genocide. There are no fireflies left. In all of Wisconsin. Bastard! ...

I don't have anything else to write. So, uh, go watch the fireworks at your local Sea World.

And Off I Go

2004-08-06T08:25:31Z

Well, I'm pretty much packed (not totally, which is probably bad), and am about ready to go to Wisconsin. My plane leaves at 8:50am, I believe, and I arrive in Mineapolis, Minnesota around 2:30pm central time (12:30pm here). Then, I will change planes and get on one headed to Milwaukee, and end up there at about 4:30pm (again, central time). I'm still kind of nervous, but hey- what's life without a little excitement? I'm kinda bummed cause I just realize that I haven't had a chance to mail Rachel her letter back, and it makes me angry/sad. I hope she isn't mad at me, because honestly I've been so depressed and stressed out lately I don't think I can handle it.

Oh, I left a little message on Dark.ca2600.org, asking everyone to email me with nice little tidbits of love. I don't know if I'll actually be able to check it, but it would be a nice thought nonetheless. Anyway, I'm gonna head off to bed soon, even though I'm not tired... man, with the time zone change (it's two hours later there, in case you wanna call my cell, whoever reads this... not sure if anyone does), I'm gonna have a lot of trouble sleeping...

Wisconsin Tomorrow

2004-08-06T01:54:41Z

Well, in a day's time, it will be nearly 9:00pm for me, in Wisconsin, chilling with Ben. I'm really nervous about the trip, and just really hope that I have a good time. I doubt I'll have much net connection, although I'm taking my laptop. I'll likely either update this using Ben's net connection or, more likely, I'll write them in WordPad or something on my laptop, and then update them later. It's just easier that way, I think. Well, I'm getting really really stressed about tomorrow, but eh... there's nothing I can do. I'm sure that somehow I'll survive. School starts soon, though... :(

Reformatted

2004-08-05T09:19:16Z

Well, my boot sector of my hard drive got corrupted, and I had to reformat. This means that today I lost: my programs, my code, my shiny new server software that I wrote, complete with multithreading support, my gigs of music and media... *sigh*

Oh well, at least the computer runs smoothly, aside from thinking I don't have a floppy disk. Damn wires; I'll fix that later. Some of my music was saved since I had it on my iRiver, which is good. I'll recover eventually...

rawr

2004-07-17T04:03:22Z

This sucks. I feel like blogging, but I don't really wanna update this blog. I just have a lot going on in my mind at the moment. Hmm. Maybe I'll update this stuff later. I don't know.

Summer

2004-06-22T04:39:26Z

Yes, it's summer. I'm taking speech and java over the summer, and then working at SDSC most afternoons. More info about my job is available (wow, that's a clicky), although it's a little inaccurate. Oh, and I broke up with Linz, but we're friends now, which is really cool. Okay, that's it.

Okay, okay....

2004-04-21T05:19:04Z

Yeah, I'm alive. School has kept me amazingly busy- so busy, in fact, that I haven't had much free time at all. I've been studying my ass off trying as hard as possible to get all As this quarter- not likely, but shoot for the stars, right? As far as programming goes, you can check out my wireframe solar system right here (Windows only). I think it's pretty cool, anyway. Hrm. Just letting you know I'm not dead. Back to studying french now....

I know, I know....

2004-04-10T08:26:03Z

I know, it's been ages (actually, a week and one- er, it's past midnight so two days) since I've last updated my blog. I'm sorry, I'm sorry... heh. I'll post what we did the other 4 days in San Francisco some other time if I remember (although I'm sure Ben could help me). For right now, you can have an exclusive peek into my programming life, with a screenshot of a pre-alpha version of PlanetaryHarvest, a console-based farming game. Trust me, it'll be good.

(Screenshot removed due to size)

San Francisco: Day One

2004-03-30T18:42:36Z

Okay, Ben and I flew in to Oakland and landed 10 minutes early yesterday. We got a ride to the hotel (Hyatt on the Wharf) and came upstairs. Fun stuff, we got two beds and a TV, and I found an Internet hookup. We walked to Ghirardelli Square (sic) and had lunch at one of those old-fashioned diners. I think it was called Lori's Diner. Afterwards, we walked around the square and found out that Ben has a serious, serious hat fetish. He tried on just about every hat in not one, but two crazy hat stores. After hanging around the square a little bit, we walked to Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39. The weather was getting chilly, so after hanging out at Pier 39 and a little bit on the Wharf for a little while, we came back to the hotel and watched some Adam Sandler movies on HBO and other movie channels.

When we got tired of movies, we hung out in the jacuzzi and then tackled each other and wrestled in the pool.

Soon after, we went down for dinner at Subway and 7-11 (don't ask), and then came back and watched the second half of "Catch Me If You Can" and about a million TV shows. Eventually, we went to bed (sorta).

So now it's morning, I've done a long-distance dialup and made this entry, while "A Walk to Remember" is playing and Ben knows every word. We're gonna go to Alkatraz later today, and it's scheduled to rain. Ben is on my back at the moment, jumping on me.

There are alot of little details I've missed, details that I'll fill in at some later date.

For now, I gotta shower so that we can go out.

HackerLife Technical

2004-03-29T01:20:42Z

Well guys, not that my LiveJournal doesn't interest me, but it's not good to store real technical entries such as virus alerts, game/movie reviews, etc. So, I've gotten Trent (mittens) to set me up a MovableType blog, located at polycat.net/david. Fun stuff. I have one entry up there, but that's about it. Expect to see some cool entries there, if you're into that kind of stuff.

Stop inferring things.

2004-03-23T06:15:23Z

Please, everyone, stop inferring things about minor blow-off posts in my blog. I wasn't planning on killing anyone, I'm perfectly sane. The previous entry will now be made private. Thanks, everyone.

Got a little David.Artoo button!

2004-03-10T06:47:30Z

Display it proudly! Check out my super-cool David.Artoo button (which is dynamic, and eventually will change [gimme a few days to make a cool icon]):

Anyway, get it yourself for your blog, web page, whatever here. It would really mean alot to me :)

... that's about it. I'm tired and gotta do alot of homework, so I'm not going to actually update :P

Too %#@ing lazy.

2004-03-08T06:41:44Z

Yeah, I'm here and alive, but at the moment FAR too lazy to update my blog... every night since my last update I've been meaning to do it, but it just hasn't come along yet... *sigh*

I installed a Live-CD version of DamnSmall Linux, and it's coming along great... it would be better if it could save data though :P

Yeah, uhm, aside from fooling around with my system, hanging out with Linz, and programming, that's been about it. I'm gonna go and write something now... poetry or prose of some sort, I think :) .... perhaps a sonnet.

Anyway, for those interested, here's the leeto banner for DSL: ... click the banner!

Too (and two, too) True Comics...

2004-03-03T06:24:32Z

Okay, so maybe I've freaked you out with my whole Fox Trot/Zits/UserFriendly obsession phase, but with all the tech comments I sometimes can't help myself! Anyway, with the hope that FoxTrot will never disallow image linking (damn you userfriendly!), I shall link you to two images, in the order in which they have occured in papers:

Ahh the ailments of Mozilla...

Too much like me at school, hehe