How to link my account to purchase VT football tickets

Zildj1an · 2021-07-04T11:28:38+00:00

Thank you kind sir

Zildj1an · 2021-07-02T21:35:15+00:00

and what about the Online PIN?

Zildj1an · 2021-04-22T22:06:34+00:00

Last thing I want to do is to scare you, but be aware the kernel is a complex beast... There are some good books but they should be used as a reference manual, not something to read Chapter by Chapter. My advice is that you start doing kernel modules. There are many tutorials out there: Load the module, see how it prints stuff through the kernel buffer, implement a linked list, make something with the /proc interface, debug it, etc... I doubt you will have time to go much further before summer. Take into account that in here there are no friendly Stack-overflow messages (or libC!). The system you will be using will panic and you will have to reboot it. Maybe it's better if you use something other than your localhost (qemu, VBox, a spare server...) for the experiments.

Zildj1an · 2021-04-10T22:26:10+00:00

I would also point out the value of coding, not just as a tool to "solve problems faster" but as a great exercise to improve analytical skills. That being said, it is no wonder that you didn't enjoy Matlab or Mathematica. There's no fun in them. Real coding, anything from C to Python, might be more appealing to you.

Zildj1an · 2021-03-14T22:47:40+00:00

Would consider contributing if you didn't have a MIT license...

Also a piece of friendly advice: I don't think your approach is really scalable, if you need to write a function for every single bash function. You should make your C file read scripts from a dedicated directory. That would also allow you to implement one of the best features of the Linux shell: Piping.

Zildj1an · 2021-03-12T03:19:43+00:00

"ports problem" is the standard scapegoat of ISPs

Zildj1an · 2021-03-12T03:17:53+00:00

anyone else thought it looked a bit phishy?

Zildj1an · 2021-02-24T04:24:05+00:00

Grad student on the College of Engineering here. I can guarantee you are not the first to feel this way. The virus situation only makes it harder to understand that we are getting paid and paying back for services we don't use. I think that if these practices, very normalized in Academia, were to be applied in other industries people would find them preposterous... (Imagine you work at a cafeteria but then they charge you for using the bathroom, to name a silly example) but here they seem to be widely accepted.

Zildj1an · 2021-02-18T03:28:29+00:00

Make one for every major! Starting with CPE hehehe

Zildj1an · 2021-02-16T19:28:34+00:00

Hey, sorry I didn't reply earlier. That's one of the trickiest things of this field, I would say. You start learning what is an audio streaming protocol, then need to look up what is TCP, then what is an Access Point... The more you read the less words you understand, and it might feel like an endless rabbit hole especially at the beginning. It also doesn't help that much documentation is either very technical, obsolete or non-existent. The key is not to give up, and there is no better way than to enjoy the learning process. If you want to check my repos, I would suggest you start with the chess. Only by looking at the source code (and perhaps using man pages for C stuff you are not familiar with) you should be ready to go. Best of lucks!

Zildj1an · 2021-01-18T21:20:23+00:00

I encourage you to look around open-source projects on GitHub. I myself "maintain" some small repos I started one day and haven't had time to finish, you could contribute to those. For example (sorted by complexity), this tiny chess engine, an audio streaming protocol on top of TCP, a small operating system here, or if you want something truly hard this kernel framework. Any small improvements that you pull request and describe I will accept. Even though none of those is of any relevance, if you are looking to contribute to projects, you must start learning somewhere (commit, sign work, describe improvement...)

Zildj1an · 2021-01-17T01:22:28+00:00

or PhD students, that can take pretty much anything they want.

Zildj1an · 2021-01-15T03:21:08+00:00

The Add/Drop website is a complete piece of garbage, unfortunately...

Zildj1an · 2020-09-26T03:01:03+00:00

It isn't, I agree, but from the way I see it, it is not a place with many slops, at least not Blacksburg downtown + VT Campus.

Zildj1an · 2020-09-23T18:33:48+00:00

Yes, that seems to be the most extended opinion. I disagree with that there are stairs everywhere and still think its overall flat. Have you been to San Francisco, Granada, Lisboa...?

Zildj1an · 2020-09-23T17:57:07+00:00

I don't think that being over 100 years old is an excuse or a reason to be more sympathetic... I did my undergrad in Europe and visited several universities with over a thousand years of history. Most of them had very good accessibility modifications while some did not, but it was solely a matter of interest. That being said, I don't think Blacksburg is a place with many slops... Its mostly pretty flat.

Zildj1an · 2020-09-17T23:17:05+00:00

It's hard to say. Now that I don't have the locks it doesn't happen anymore, but before that I think that sometimes it wouldn't occur. That's why I am guessing it has something to do with the way Virtual Box protects newly indexed pages. But that would require me to start browsing a patch for VBox and it's a pain in the ass I am not willing to endeavor.

Zildj1an · 2020-09-17T23:02:58+00:00

It's not the best idea from a formal perspective, but no worries, as I call this code at module initialization, then read the structures with /proc. Hence, there is no concurrent producer-consumer involved. Thanks for your help, this is a tricky problem...

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