Orlando, Florida

Travel — Titus Barik on June 22, 2008 at 3:53 pm

I’ll be at Orlando, Florida for the entirety of next week on business. Yes, I’m still working for Arch Chemicals.

Update: I arrived back home on Saturday. I left Friday from Orlando, but it got late and so I stayed at a hotel in Tiffton.

InstantRails 2.0 Error on Windows Vista

Uncategorized — Titus Barik on June 14, 2008 at 4:44 pm

It doesn’t work. I always get the following message when starting up the application:

Either Apache or MySQL cannot run because another program is using it’s port.

MySQL successfully starts, so it appears that Apache is the one that is causing the problem. The Apache Error Log is completely blank, and the Instant Rails log has nothing meaningful other than the message given above. Any ideas?

Update: It’s definitely a bug. Uncheck ‘Verify that the ports are available before starting servers’ under Configure / Instant Rails and you should be good to go.

The Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm

Quotations — Titus Barik on June 8, 2008 at 4:56 pm
  1. Write down the problem.
  2. Think very hard.
  3. Write down the answer.

ECE 520: Results

Career — Titus Barik on June 1, 2008 at 12:36 pm

Grades for ECE 520, Digital ASIC Design, have finally been posted. I took my final exam after the official deadline so it took a few weeks to manually enter my grades into the system. The grades are as follows:

  • Midterm Exam, 85%
  • Homework 1, 100%
  • Homework 2, 100%
  • Homework 3, 100%
  • Homework 4, 100%
  • Homework 5, 100%
  • Final Project, 103%
  • Final Exam, ?

Final average: ? (A+)
Costs: $2040 (tuition) + $112.20 (books)

I find that I do better in classes that are project-oriented rather than exam-oriented.

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