So on friday I went to Ottawa to look for an apartment for myself. I had looked online at a number of apartments and set up 3 appointments to view three places. I left Cambridge at 4AM and got into Ottawa at 9AM after dodging the sunrise by eating breakfast at McDonalds at the Trenton service center. Eventually, I saw three places and decided to rent the second place, which was my preference based on the online searching. So if I get approved I will be living in a 1 bedroom apartment on the ground floor at the corner of Greenbank and Baseline. So now I am pricing out various items I need to get. End result is, I will be living with Dennis's parents for 2 weeks and then moving into my apartment June 1. Finally Friday evening, I drove back home to Cambridge and arrived home around 10:30PM. Long day. However, I am excited and am looking forward to starting my own place ad job! And that is all I have to say for now.

I'll post some pictures when I get a reasonable internet connection.

Update

I heard today that I am approved to live at the apartment I applied for. So here are the images of the unit I saw. It is not the unit I will be living in though.

So I got a job offer from Xandros today! So far I have looked it over and am awaiting the paper copy they should be sending out tomorrow. It looks good so far. I am still waiting to hear back from a couple other companies where I have applied, but if I don;t hear anything from them in the next couple days, I will likely accept the offer from Xandros. This relieves a lot of stress and worry I have had over the last couple months.

Hooray!

So another update seems in order.

This is my last term of school! Soon I will be finished course work and then exams. This term, I took one of the big 3 courses at UW. Last school term (Summer 04) I took Real-Time which is one of the other Big-3 courses, but there is nothing I can actually show as a result of that course. Unless you want to wade through a crappily designed and implemented operating system, and train tracking application. With graphics though, since I did a ray tracer for my final project, there is a lot I can show as a result. I have a collection of images I've generated while testing and debugging the individual features. As well there is my final project Demo page, showing each of the individual features.

Now having recently submitted the graphics project, I have only a couple things left to do, a Phil 145 paper which is late, and a Music 100 concert review which is due by the exam. Thankfully school is almost over. Now I just need to find a job...

So reading shawn's page recently, I am completely lost. Could you fucking speak english!

Thanks, that is all I have to say

So it seems I was hasty to say that I would base my KNetspeed on the Gnome Netspeed applet. It seems they use some glibtop library which I don't want to use. I did a little more searching and eventually came across another KDE program that does a similar job, except it isn;t an applet, but rather a program that sits inthe system tray area. It seems to have a decent interface to getting network device stats though, and is portable to Linux 2.6, 2.4 and BSD4 as well as Solaris. So I will probably use that instead, for network device stats. Yay for free software!