eThreads? A Release?

November 11, 2003 by Eric Richardson

So today I released eThreads 2.0 Alpha 2. The last eThreads major release was 1.2 in July of 2000, so to say that I'm a little slow between versions would be a huge understatement. This release adds so many features that I don't really know how to list them all. Coolest of the last few months is the conversion that took place to make eThreads mod_perl safe. That made a huge speed improvement. I think I said 250% when I made the change. Hopefully a full 2.0 release will follow in the next few weeks.

weekend wrapup

November 10, 2003 by Eric Richardson

Not a lot of sleep this weekend (and with that I'm actually including back to Wednesday, just for good measure). Wednesday I went and saw the Matrix. Friday the USC basketball team played its first exhibition game. Saturday and Sunday were spent down in San Diego at a waterski tournament. Click to read more about all of those. — Continue Reading...

Getting a little fresh air...

November 04, 2003 by Eric Richardson

Yesterday I wandered out to the La Quinta Resort to watch a little golf. A friend from high school, Colby Beckstrom, plays golf for TCU and was in a tournament there. I like to get out and see him when he comes to the area, so I drove out for the first 36 holes of the tourney. Colby shot rounds of -1 and -4 while I was there, making some pretty crazy shots. His short game was on fire. That put him at -5, in second place and 5 shots behind the leader. And yet to hear him talk afterward, he didn't play well at all. Well, he must have in the final round, because tonight I look online and what did he do? He won it, dropping a -5 in the third round. I borrowed a digital camera and took some pictures yesterday. I'll be putting those up as soon as I can transfer them to my computer.

Update (2003-11-10): I have the pictures online at /images/colby/. No thumbnails, but they're cool pictures, so they're worth checking out.

finally

November 04, 2003 by Eric Richardson

So I'm now sitting outside Carl's Jr. on campus, typing this via a wireless connection under Linux. For some reason this seems to be the only access point that will let me connect at the moment, but I'm hoping that's just a propagation issue that'll take care of itself (you have to register your ethernet card to connect). Now I'm off to class, one small victory won.

mobile fun

October 30, 2003 by Eric Richardson

Tonight I finally got around to trying to install a couple things I had wanted to try on the new laptop. So now I'm running Linux kernel 2.6-test9, have suspend to disk working, and have ACPI playing nice (including being able to use it to set brightness levels on the LCD). E-AcpiPower gives me a nice battery view.