Aight, hopefully things will stop locking up randomly.

As you can tell, I passed the qualifying exam. Not by much, mind, but enough. :) This means I can work on purchasing a Linux tablet, and I've already arranged the steak grilling for this weekend, and I've ordered some books on MPI that I'll hopefully be able to use when it comes time for me to generate my own code.

Actually, I'm writing this as I'm waiting for emerge to finish building stuff so that I can pack up my laptop to go to the Wig and Pen with John (coming in to town) and Ben (also passed the quals).

I've tried upgrading my kernel to 2.6.8.1-mm[23], but it doesn't seem to pick up my sound card. I'm going to try to use my old config from 2.6.7, but there's no guarantee for that. They don't seem to lock up or anything, but no sound, no joe. :)

ipw2100 driver got bumped up to version 0.53, so I tried out the new ebuild. Seems to be working like a charm [nojinxnojinxnojinxnojinx]. I suspect the 0.47 driver I was using was causing my random lockups. I couldn't upgrade to anything newer, since I'm using the Software Suspend 2 patch which conflicts with ipw2100 0.48-0.52. But not 0.53!!!!

Today was pretty well. I found out the qual results yesterday, and my advisor congratulated me today. After that, I tried to upgrade the undergrad's computer, but SuSE 9.1 (the download net-install CD) refused to work with XFS. It'd write the filesystem, but then oops (and subsequently lock up on any mount ops) when mounting the new filesystem. GRRR. I very much hope they've patched that in the newer kernels so that it's not a problem that /home is xfs. Felt pretty good to wipe out the old win2k install on there and put in a 100% linux system. :)

So now it's got reiser3 on it, and is happily updating (Yay Internet2!). During the long intermissions, I managed to get some work done on the paper we're putting together, and I bounced the next part back at my advisor. Hopefully it's good; making things look Just Right is a major pain. :)

Whelp, I think that's all for now. Peace out.