Posted by: generalmaximus on: October 28, 2007
I’ve taken on a challenge. I have exactly 15 days to build a working web crawler and indexer for the school exhibition. Obviously, I chose Python for this task. Right now I’m writing the basic functions to download a complete website from the Internet. Once that is done, I’ll write the indexer and the search [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: October 18, 2007
I’ve got myself a very nice book on data structures, and I’ve been experimenting with them using the only low level programming language I know, C. It turns out that C is really a pain in the ass if you don’t know what you are doing well before you start doing it.
Here’s what happened. I [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: October 15, 2007
I’ve been using the beta of Ubuntu Gutsy for about 4 days now, and I must say it’s really nice. I’ve seen people on forums and blogs saying that Ubuntu is misleading hype, and the tiny changes made in each release do not justify the amount of hype surrounding it. This seems kind of strange, [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: October 11, 2007
Government officials harassing you? Corporations coming after your money? Sand in your coffee? No problems. Get some friends together and start a “peaceful” march, call some journalists, and the offending element goes down. Not only will they have to compensate for any “losses” you incurred, they’ll even consider giving you enough cash to buy Belgium. [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: October 9, 2007
After distro hopping for about 3 months, going from CentOS to Debian to PCLinuxOS to SuSe … you get the point … I’m finally back where I started. Ubuntu Fesity Fawn (will probably become Gutsy Gibbon by tomorrow evening).
Ubuntu doesn’t ask much of me. It doesn’t require me to edit files or compile source code [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: October 8, 2007
Finally. Exams over. I can now say goodbye to bloated PCM books and live in peace forever, where forever means roughly two months. This makes me think. I’m halfway through standard 12, and I haven’t even gone through the class 11 material properly. Looks like it’s time to drop everything I’m doing at the moment [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: October 6, 2007
A fact that is widely known and acknowledged by those who know me is that I never care to login to any website. That strangely includes my blog here at WordPress. Well, looks like my days of logging in are over. I just grabbed a WordPress Sidebar off http://addons.mozilla.org. Easy to use, without the hassle [...]
