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April 26, 2004
Working a Lot
I know its been a long time since my last entry, but I warned you in advance. I have one more week of classes, and then one week of exams. Over the weekend, I finished my paper on XML and semistructured data. to get honors credit for my database course. The paper ended up being 33 pages, which is pretty long in my opinion. On Friday, I am giving a 40 minute presentation on the subject to the class. I also had a group project on temporal databases, and the presentation for that begins in about 2 hours from now. Fortunately, I only have to talk for about 7 minutes.
Posted by Raj Doshi at 10:49 AM
April 12, 2004
BlastApp
Posted by Raj Doshi at 8:52 AM
Tired
I've got a lot of things to do, but it's all boring. I might not be updating very much until the semester is over. It looks like I'm getting my $186 back from the police.
Posted by Raj Doshi at 4:04 AM
April 8, 2004
$186
That's how much it cost me to rescue my car today. It was towed last Saturday, and I didn't even know about it until today when I went looking for my car...and it was gone. Basically, I was victimized by a classic case of parking spot reclassification. An explanation of the system might go something like this:
There are three types of parking passes: normal passes, admin passes, and root passes. Anyone with a pass has access to the parking system, but depending on the type of pass, the user only has certain privileges within the system. For example, any user with a pass can enter, occupy, or exit any parking spot in the Ditmer lot. However, for the Cook Field lot, all users can enter and exit parking spots, but only user with admin or root passes can occupy a parking spot. Sometimes, the permissions for a given parking spot can be changed. For example, the parking system can take a certain spot that is occupied by someone with an admin pass, and change its permissions so that it requires a root pass. In this case, Wright's Towing will force quit any current occupation that lacks the necessary privileges, and that user's account will be locked until the user pays the reauthorization fee. At this time the user may occupy any spot for which he/she has the appropriate privileges, including the previous parking spot of occupation if that spot's permissions have been returned to their original state.
Posted by Raj Doshi at 11:28 AM
April 6, 2004
Lab, Project, etc.
I have a lab due on Tuesday at noon that I'm almost finished with. I did a pretty bad job, which is good. I need to start putting together my symmetry project for Friday. Over the past few days, I've been doing a lot of Java programming. There is a high school programming competition coming up, and I've been solving the problems in Java to verify their correctness. I've also been writing in Java a program that converts XML DTDs to relational schemas (part of my Databases course extension). So basically, most of my rust in Java is now gone. I guess it had been about a year since I last did any Java programming.
Posted by Raj Doshi at 12:32 PM