OS Project (Machine Problem 1)

Goodness!!!
This is a killer of a problem. I've been working on it for three days straight!
I got up at 10am, started working on it...
I started a playlist too...

Playlist length: 6 hours 33 minutes 27 seconds

Playlist files:

1. Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (3:46)
2. Aretha Franklin - Respect (2:27)
3. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (8:02)
4. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone (6:09)
5. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (4:31)
6. Eagles - Hotel California (6:31)
7. Doors - Light My Fire (7:08)
8. Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (3:37)
9. Beatles - Hey Jude (5:03)
10. John Lennon - Imagine (3:05)
11. Kingsmen - Louie Louie (2:46)
12. Beatles - Yesterday (2:05)
13. The Who - My Generation (3:24)
14. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (3:51)
15. Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode (2:42)
16. Derek and the Dominoes - Layla (7:06)
17. The Who - We Won't Get Fooled Again (8:33)
18. Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock (2:34)
19. Don McLean - American Pie (8:32)
20. Beatles - A Day in the Life (5:33)
21. James Brown - I Feel Good (2:46)
22. Stevie Wonder - Superstition (3:59)
23. Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand (2:25)
24. Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar (3:49)
25. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze (2:50)
26. Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil (6:27)
27. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (5:53)
28. Kinks - You Really Got Me (2:36)
29. Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman (2:58)
30. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (4:55)
31. Elvis Presley - Hound Dog (2:18)
32. Beatles - Let It Be (4:03)
33. Otis Redding - (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay (2:45)
34. Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower (4:00)
35. Aerosmith - Walk This Way (3:32)
36. Temptations - My Girl (2:44)
37. Bill Haley - Rock Around the Clock (2:10)
38. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine (3:17)
39. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary (3:09)
40. Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild (3:30)
41. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (5:01)
42. Police - Every Breath You Take (4:13)
43. Ray Charles - What'd I Say (5:07)
44. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird (10:06)
45. Buddy Holly - That'll Be the Day (2:19)
46. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (5:34)
47. Aerosmith - Dream On (4:27)
48. Mamas and the Papas - California Dreaming (2:41)
49. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl (3:03)
50. Troggs - Wild Thing (2:36)
51. Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Suite Judy Blue Eyes (7:29)
52. Michael Jackson - Beat It (4:19)
53. Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire (2:32)
54. Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive (4:47)
55. Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth (2:37)
56. Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind (2:49)
57. Beatles - Twist And Shout (2:33)
58. Billy Joel - Piano Man (5:37)
59. Beatles - She Loves You (2:21)
60. David Bowie - Space Oddity (5:18)
61. Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (4:10)
62. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (8:32)
63. Patsy Cline - Crazy (2:43)
64. Clash - London Calling (3:20)
65. Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash (3:44)
66. Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll (3:40)
67. Al Green - Let's Get Together (3:15)
68. Elvis Presley - All Shook Up (1:57)
69. Rod Stewart - Maggie May (5:14)
70. Elton John - Your Song (4:04)
71. Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel (2:11)
72. Beach Boys - God Only Knows (2:52)
73. Chubby Checker - Let's Twist Again (2:20)
74. Little Richard - Good Golly Miss Molly (2:11)
75. Cream - Sunshine of Your Love (4:12)
76. Beach Boys - California Girls (2:35)
77. Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues (1:58)
78. Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes (2:17)
79. Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (2:32)
80. James Taylor - Fire and Rain (3:26)
81. Them - Gloria (2:35)
82. Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (4:09)
83. Rolling Stones - Start Me Up (3:34)
84. Boston - More Than a Feeling (4:45)
85. Police - Roxanne (3:14)
86. Queen - We Are the Champions (3:01)
87. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue (5:41)
88. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (2:54)
89. Ben E. King - Stand By Me (2:53)
90. Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (3:01)
91. AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (3:24)
92. Prince - When Doves Cry (5:54)
93. Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour (2:28)
94. Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin' (2:52)
95. Van Halen - Jump (4:01)
96. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road (4:51)
97. Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry (3:46)
98. Richie Valens - La Bamba (2:08)
99. The Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun (4:08)
100.Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (3:55)

As you can see, I have very good musical taste... Here's what my workspace looks like.
(I'm programming a memory manager for the MIPS architecture)
Anyways, I need to finish... almost there.

Check back later when I'm going insane studying for my Accoutning exam that's on Monday!
:-p

Energy Drinks

..::Energy Drinks::..

This is a short little post ranting over some of the most memorable energy drinks I've had.

note: Understand that I just pulled an all-nighter studying for my database exam and doing other homework (cpsc 332), so my grammar and english will not be the best.

So far I'm living off of an AMP, a Monster and a Full Throttle.


Yes, Amp. The beautiful drink made by mountain dew that keeps you up and going when you're almost all dead.
:-)

Another way to stay up is by listening to the mountain dew music player.
It's alright music, hard to fall asleep to. ;-)

Amp: It's small, but it has quite a kick to it.



Now the monster. This is the big daddy of energy drinks. This guy will keep you up when you're running only on fumes. Sigh, it's sad that I can actually do a blog all on energy drinks. I really like the taste of monster, my favorite flavor is "Monster Assault".

The downside of this drink is that it's huge, so you'll be making a ton of bathroom breaks.




Alright, now we move on to the "Full Throttle". When you buy this drink, make sure that you get the one that has sugar in it. If you don't you'll be tasting the "diet coke" version of full throttle and it's really nasty. Why does it taste just like diet coke? Because it's made by coca cola. This drink is the same size and the monster drink, so expect to be making frequent runs, but it tastes very good. It's sweeter than most energy drinks and has a lot of sugar in it.





Now it's time for the finalists.

..::THE WORST::..
You'd think with a name like, "Pimp Juice"... well, actually, I don't really know what to think. Ok, let me comment that the can looks very cool. It's all gold (even on the top tab). If I drank energy drinks for the cans (which I sometimes do), this one would get a good 8/10... sadly, the gold can is the best part of this drink.
First, the drink is green. Not apple green, no, nuclear waste green. Not only that, but this is the only energy drink I've ever had that BURNED when it went down my throat. It was like I was drinking Vick's Vapor Rub... Now, to top it all off, it tastes awful! If orange juice is made from freshly squeezed oranges, I don't want to imagine where this foul liquid came from.

..::THE BEST::..

But, by far, the best energy drink out on the market is "Bawls". Yes, as the name suggests, this drink has a lot of chutzpah.

This drink is just the right size, and the bottle looks AWESOME. No wonder it's the hard-core gamer's energy drink of choice. The downside? Well, it's hard to find, expensive and... well, I started shaking a few hours after downing it. LOL.



Now, you can get your energy drink opinions from anyone, but it'd be smart to take the advice from a college student in computer science who pulls all-nighters all the stinkin' time.

Over the summer semester, I pulled six. The last four days of class, I only got to sleep once (in other words, 3 out of 4 days I didn't have to make my bed).

So I hope you understand that I'm a professional and I know what I'm talking about ;-)

Ok... Enough with the tests...

Yup, yup, yup.
So I got a new job. I'm working with the Computer Science Department, under the director of communications. This means I'm an administrator... :-D
Oh yeah. Power... authority... I love it!

I have permissions to so much now! As a administrator, I can get into the super sweet labs (I'll be posting pictures of the differences soon). I also manage the Computer Science Departmental website and database.

:-D

KING OF THE NERDS!!
lol.

I'm studying for my database system exam and listening to The Oscar Peterson Trio - My Blue Heaven (Swiss Internet Radio - Radiocrazy - Big Band Jazz and Swing) - 128 kBit/s

:-)
I like it.

I'm really getting tired of profs letting us have "cheat sheets". This is the forth class in my college career where the prof tells us we can bring in a piece of handwritten paper. (I had one last semester, and three this semester). You'd think it'd been great, right?
nope.
My hands are getting micro-writer's cramp, all I learn is how to put down everything in my notes, and it takes more time than just studying.
Why do profs do this?
BECAUSE THEY'RE LAZY!!!
lol
If they tell you to make a cheat sheet, they can put a question like:

Problem 12(25pts):List the three reasons why we used Relationship models for database?

Now, a very smart student who knows everything about databases but has a bad cheat sheet won't be able to answer all three reasons (fyi, they are 1. they are simple, 2. they often match how we think about data, 3. It is an abstract model that underlies SQL)

Plus it's easy to grade, because there is a right and wrong answer, no extra credit.
lazy, lazy profs.
:-)

Now, in their defense... no, wait, nevermind. I don't wanna defend them. ;-)

Here's one of the little flyer's I made for work today. I had fun.
:-D

Now, it's not as cool as it could be, but I was constricted because the department's main printer is currently dead and I had to use an ink jet printer. I like it because it looks professional (boring, I know).

Still it's fun and it pays.. not well, but it pays.
As my mom says,

It pays for the starbucks, right?

Yup! Now if only I could get a car to drive me to starbucks... ;-)

I need to finish studying.

There is a reason I'm a member of the I Would Have Seen the Sun Set and then Rise In Bright, But the Labs are Soulless, Windowless Boxes on "the facebook" :-D
Later!

I'm listening to: Frank Sinatra - Super Hits # The Coffee Song
and my mom's favorite song (she used to sing it to my dad when he would go on business trips)
I'm listening to: Patti Page - You Belong To Me