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Ok, so by mid-afternoon I had caved in and started revision for this Large Scale Distributed Systems (LSDS) exam. I've read the notes a couple of times, made up answers to the past two exams papers and come to the conclusion of "Bollocks, low mark for me."
So I decided that a few more hours revision before bed wouldn't matter. So, to expand on the short (and if I'm honest) rather crap notes and despite it being frowned upon in academic circles, I turned to Wikipedia.
When I woke up this morning, I didn't care for LSDS, I wasn't interested in the Grid, Internet routing or in fact pretty much all the course. (I -am- interested in adhoc networks however, as this is what my 3rd year project is based on.) But now, after reading the Wikipedia and having the technologies expressed in a succinct and direct manner, I do care! It's all interesting stuff and I just hadn't realised.
It's a pity this happened 13 hours before my exam, of which most I'll be asleep.
<Unrelated Edit>
For ages I've thought that links on my blog weren't visible enough. I just had a moment of genious. All links are now bolded. I think it's a suitable change. *shrug*
</Unrelated Edit>
So I decided that a few more hours revision before bed wouldn't matter. So, to expand on the short (and if I'm honest) rather crap notes and despite it being frowned upon in academic circles, I turned to Wikipedia.
When I woke up this morning, I didn't care for LSDS, I wasn't interested in the Grid, Internet routing or in fact pretty much all the course. (I -am- interested in adhoc networks however, as this is what my 3rd year project is based on.) But now, after reading the Wikipedia and having the technologies expressed in a succinct and direct manner, I do care! It's all interesting stuff and I just hadn't realised.
It's a pity this happened 13 hours before my exam, of which most I'll be asleep.
<Unrelated Edit>
For ages I've thought that links on my blog weren't visible enough. I just had a moment of genious. All links are now bolded. I think it's a suitable change. *shrug*
</Unrelated Edit>
It's not interesting. amorphous computing is ace (Adhoc etc) and the rest is bordeoms-ville.
by Matt at 06:37 on 03rd Jun 2005
I realise now that perhaps I was a little over-excited. True, the whole amorphous stuff is great, that's why it was the basis of my project. My excuse is I was tanked up on caffine!
by Gordon at 10:28 on 03rd Jun 2005
Hey, I know its not entirely in the spirit of your blog, but are you going to put your project online? We also need a network gaming day again - for old times sake ;)
by Rich at 10:37 on 03rd Jun 2005
did you find the spanning-tree protocol article on wikipedia?
First the root must be selected. By ID, it is elected...
great poem.
by Matt at 10:51 on 03rd Jun 2005
Nope, didn't read about spanning tree really. Good job too, since it'd have been a waste of my time.. didn't appear in the exam. But yet, nice poem. :)
by Gordon at 13:50 on 03rd Jun 2005
The project looks awesome - why is it that all your work looks far more fun than mine? ;) I seriously hope there's going to be more cool hardware stuff from Kloopy.com. Did you use an in-circuit programmer, or did you do it the hard way? - I bought a PIC 18f devkit around christmas time, but haven't had a chance to use it yet.. Anyway, netsess sounds cool at yours - I come past hitchin pretty often and should be moving back to cam in the next 6 months
by Matt at 09:11 on 06th Jun 2005
I did it the hard way. The in-circuit programmer part of my programmer didn't work. When I had very little time to finish the thing I chose to do it the hard way than waste time working out how to get the in-circuit bit working.
And the hardware is better than the report. I really don't like the report, it's the first technical document I've written and I'm not proud of it.