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Project: PhoojiShell

Tuesday September 13th, in the middle of the night

Taylor Lake is back

Colgate is a strange place when you're a senior. I've already attended two events sponsored by Career Services, with the specific purpose of getting ready for my job and/or grad school search. There is also a distinct lack of people who are a year ahead of me. There is no food at French & Italian house. The libary is called Case Library @ James C. Colgate (and they're not kidding -- they stuffed the entire library into the Pub and the Hall of Presidents). I'm working on a thesis. It's weird (much like the flow of this paragraph, yes).

In spite of all the weirdness, I can report that one thing is completely the way it is supposed to be. Taylor Lake has returned to Colgate (evidence attached). Bridget apparently thought it was gone 8)

PhoojiShell!

Something that also hasn't changed is my ongoing effort to stuff more work into less time. Without further ado I present: PhoojiShell. So erm yah... I decided to write a Linux shell in plain C, mainly to get more familiar with the whole POSIX fork stuff. It is actually completely counter-intuitive. The shell works nicely though. I decided I wanted to run it 'in the wild,' so I created a user account with /bin/phoojishell as its default shell. The result is erm... history 8-) It is also good preparation for my Operating Systems class; it has been rumoured that we will have to write a shell for lab in a couple of weeks...

While we're on the topic, last week I rewrote the documentation of my research project in DocBook. It lets me generate HTML, PDF and all sorts of other files. Some popular software projects use it, to good avail. I was going to use LaTeX originally (it is more popular in the academic world), but decided against it for various reasons. DocBook supposedly isn't that hard to convert to LaTeX anyway...

Comments:


  1. Pieter Hooimeijer:

    Side note: check out this review of the new Nano iPod. Very professionally done 8)

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-13 02:08:50)

  2. Sista Kim:

    I do not pretend to understand everything you are trying to explain, but 'Nice going brother!'. But you know me... I can find the on/off switch and that's about as far as my knowledge of computers goes (okay, that's notentirely true...I know little more than that).

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-13 02:26:08)

  3. Arjo Hooimeijer:

    I'm thinking of giving away my muVo and getting me one of those oh so damn cute Nanos..

    PhoojiShell looks like it's running on SuSE 8)

    Anyway, good to see you're still having fun, don't take the stuffing more work into less time too far!

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-13 05:19:50)

  4. Bridget:

    You make it sound like I was hallucinating! Really, Taylor Lake wasn't there! But I'm glad it's back and the swans aren't muddy anymore.

    As far as surviving your senior year, I know it will be difficult to obtain food with the French & Italian House gone, but make sure you scavenge some from someplace and get some sleep!

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-13 07:31:15)

  5. Kaleena:

    inspired by Pieter Hooimeijer — #1 Those evil ppl destroyed a nano! It's too cute for that!
    inspired by Bridget — #4 The FI House is no more... RIP. So what's up B? Guess what? I'm switching to Verizon!

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-13 11:04:31)

  6. Pieter Hooimeijer:

    inspired by Arjo Hooimeijer — #3 Yup, it's SuSE for some of the machines here. We mostly run Fedora Core though. And FreeBSD ;) As for your other concern: actually I don't control time so it's more like... more work into the same amount of time ;) Hope that helps...

    I'm thinking PhoojiShell needs a tag line... something like 'Sarcasm 4 yo CLI in 120 lines of C' ?

    inspired by Bridget — #4 You weren't hallucinating? I want proof! =)

    inspired by Kaleena — #5 8) Can you hear me now?

    Sorry... had to be said...

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-13 11:25:16)

  7. Hooimama:

    Ik ziet een klein spellingvouwtje!

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-13 13:27:26)

  8. Hooimama:

    libary instead of ....

    je mag dir verwijderen, hoor, poepie!

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-13 13:28:07)

  9. Arjo Hooimeijer:

    inspired by Pieter Hooimeijer — #6 Just give me the source, I'll add some Sarcasm (yes the capital S is intentional)

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-13 13:30:59)

  10. Arjo Hooimeijer:

    inspired by Kaleena — #5 See what happens to cuteness these days?

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-13 13:31:54)

  11. Arjo Hooimeijer:

    inspired by Hooimama — #8 'dir' of 'dit'? 8)

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-13 13:41:45)

  12. Hooimama:

    inspired by Arjo Hooimeijer — #11 Mag ik ook een verschrijvinkje op z'n tijd?

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-13 14:12:45)

  13. Hooimama:

    inspired by Arjo Hooimeijer — #11 Ik bedoel: verder begrijp ik er nix van, dus ....

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-13 14:13:38)

  14. Bridget:

    inspired by Pieter Hooimeijer — #6 link

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-13 14:27:40)

  15. Pieter Hooimeijer:

    inspired by Bridget — #14 :) see? the lake's *right there* =)

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-13 22:06:44)

  16. Arjo Hooimeijer:

    inspired by Bridget — #14 I think I'm beginning to understand the Taylor Lake has returned to Colgate remark now ;)

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-14 03:08:26)

  17. Hooimama:

    inspired by Bridget — #14inspired by Arjo Hooimeijer — #16
    Me too, me too!

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-14 06:24:40)

  18. Sista Kim:

    inspired by Pieter Hooimeijer — #15 The miraculous reappearance of Taylor Lake... should make a movie with that title!

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-14 11:17:46)

  19. Sista Kim:

    inspired by Sista Kim — #18 er... is that spelled correctly? ;-)

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-14 11:18:32)

  20. Pieter Hooimeijer:

    inspired by Sista Kim — #18 inspired by Hooimama — #17 inspired by Arjo Hooimeijer — #16 inspired by Bridget — #14 See? Neither I nor Bridget are hallucinating :)

    inspired by Sista Kim — #19 Works for me...

    So yah it looks like the PhoojiShell has picked up some notoriety because I told Professor Ohsumi about the fact that I accidently spawned about 200 processes on his machine (it's called a 'fork bomb' apparently) 8)

    In the meantime I've started to prepare for the ACM InterCollegiate Programming Contest on October 29th. I'll probably post some examples later :)

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-14 12:30:07)

  21. Sista Kim:

    inspired by Pieter Hooimeijer — #20 cool! good luck on that!

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-14 13:11:11)

  22. Arjo Hooimeijer:

    This is just too funny :)

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-14 14:40:49)

  23. Arjo Hooimeijer:

    From the gadgets department: who needs a maid..

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-14 15:43:54)

  24. Bridget:

    inspired by Kaleena — #5 Hey Kaleena! Do you have Verizon yet? Will you have the same phone number?

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-14 16:20:07)

  25. Sista Kim:

    inspired by Arjo Hooimeijer — #22 what's so funny?

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-14 16:29:17)

  26. Pieter Hooimeijer:

    inspired by Arjo Hooimeijer — #22 inspired by Sista Kim — #25 Haha I think it's disturbing. You can just see her go:

    poorly adjusted -> my boyfriend -> foreigner

    poorly adjusted = foreigner

    (Where the 'my boyfriend' step is added for dramatic purposes).

    That is sort of scary...

    inspired by Arjo Hooimeijer — #23 Dude... could have just told me you had too much cash lying around. In case anyone hasn't had a good look at Roomba yet: www.irobot.com. Actually my design for www.graafplais.nl was based very loosely on their website. Just flip between the two sites in your browser and you'll see what I mean 8)

    Anyway, big news: I've updated my r茅sum茅! Please let me know if you have any comments/suggestions!

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-14 22:00:21)

  27. Arjo Hooimeijer:

    inspired by Pieter Hooimeijer — #26 Any chance you could supply me with a unified diff, I'm too lazy to seek out the resume changes ;)

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-15 06:24:31)

  28. Kaleena:

    inspired by Bridget — #24 I don't have the phones yet, but they assured me that I'd have the same number. :) However, their customer service SUX! hopefully they were telling me the truth and the phones will get here by the end of this week.

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-15 09:01:44)

  29. Bridget:

    inspired by Kaleena — #28 I hope that you didn't get the Audiovox CMD 8910. It is a piece of garbage.

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-15 12:15:11)

  30. Hooimama:

    Good morning, America!

    It's nice and crowdy here these days! I like that!

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-16 01:45:26)

  31. Kaleena:

    inspired by Bridget — #29 Nah, it's one of the motorola ones. i think the 710 ... it's an older model, but it picks up analog as well as digital. not sure what it's called. plus the phone supposedly gets good reception. it's not as cute as my current phone, but it'll have to do. oh and the phones didn't get here yet. cuz verizon apparently sux when it comes to actually sending you what you pay for. hopefully, they'll work better than the customer service when they do get here. ARGH

    reply to this comment
    (2005-09-16 16:33:25)

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