29 January 2009 | Jason
We, the participants of Zyzzlcon 3009 were enjoying our time when suddenly we were transported to Zyzzlvaria. We need to get home, and we can do so with the Covertly Operational Inversion Node, aka COIN. It is accessable on Zyzzlvaria Alpha, but the problem is we don’t know how to get there. We have a board game based on previous adventures to the area, so we can figure it out that way! Problem! We don’t have all the pieces but expansions can be purchased. Problem! We don’t have the right money, but we can get some from solving puzzles. That way we can finally figure out where Zyzzlvaria Alpha is located.
And so began Mystery Hunt. Read More
29 January 2009 | Jason
Crossing Mass Ave, passing the Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel, entering building 34, and entering my class on the third level, I take a seat next to Yuzhi for the first class. I listen to the professor begin to talk about what we will be doing in the class and do a quick explanation of resistors and circuits. We finish the first class and some of us head to lab. We learn how to use multimeters, scopes, signal generators, and soldering irons. Each of us even was allowed to keep a multimeter for ourselves. Read More
29 January 2009 | Jason
I installed VMware Workstation 6.5 with my new Windows 7 install in the hopes that I would still have linux on my machine somehow. I gave up on OpenSUSE trying to work properly after a few weeks of trying to get everything working properly on my hardware and went back to Windows. I should have tried to install again with a new properly burned install disk, but was too lazy. VMware installed easily in Windows, and I started it up. I got an install disk for OpenSUSE and installed that. Read More
29 January 2009 | Jason
I realize that I have posted in something like two weeks, so if I feel significantly motivated tonight or soon, there will be a good number of posts to come. These will hopefully include a variety of everything from my struggles with linux and VMware to 6.091 to mystery hunt to everything in general, to the best of my own recollection. By the way, Windows 7 is going very nicely. Everything works well. I’ve only had 3 BSoDs in two weeks. Two of them have been today because I was trying to play videos in WMP12.
Get everything done early, especially if they depend on your memory. Your memory will fail you.