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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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2 April 2003 - 4:56 pm
I have recently discovered the beauty of cygwin. For those of you who don't know, cygwin is a Linux emulator for Windows. It lets me run x applications without having to reboot my computer or remotely log into another machine. Which is very cool because now I don't need to install Linux on one of my machines.
On a different subject, I've been awake since about 6 this morning. I don't know why I didn't go back to bed, but I didn't. I got up, cleaned my room a bit, and tried to decipher some of the Robonaut API code. For those of you who don't know, I'm working with the Robonaut simulator as part of my masters project. For whatever reason, the simulator is super-flaky, and the API is very obtuse. My project is to design and implement an API that will make it possible for people to play with the simulator without spending months and months figuring out how to get it to move. Or, in my case, spending months and months trying to figure out how to get the sample applications to link. It's kind of a frustrating experience.
Tonight we grade more 527 assignments, but I'm leaving at midnight, whether we're done or not. I just don't have enough energy to stay awake for another marathon grading session.
Posted by on 2 April 2003 at 4:56 PM
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Seems like a good time for a plug for my cygwin/XFree86 web page from CS242:
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~mitz/cs242/cygwin.html
And to be picky, it doesn't emulate linux but it has a DLL file that looks to applications like it's the standard C library in linux. Thus you can compile windows EXE's from most made-for-linux sources.
Posted by Adam on 3 April 2003 - 2:25 AM
I'm glad someone else said it wasn't an emulator, because I was going to, and that would have made me look like a huge geek. Now I look like only a rather large geek...
Posted by Nathan on 3 April 2003 - 12:46 PM