<div>I just started college (Computer Science major).  My Comp. Sci. 1 course is going to be a breeze, being begginers C++ and UNIX shell usage.  My professor is a true "guru" though, and the class is small, so I expect to learn alot on the side (Already have, in fact -- he likes to ramble about complex things :-P). </div> <div> </div> <div>What have I been up to?  Well here are a few goals I'm sorta-kinda working on:</div> <div> </div> <div>Program an OS with a TCP/IP stack and HTTP server [over the next four years]</div> <div>Get the most of school (Got some awesome philosophy-type classes, if you're a thinker)</div> <div>Program a filing system database and implement OCR for my job on campus</div> <div>Get a Mac (I'll dual-boot Ubuntu, don't worry!)</div> <div>Convert Fedora's man pages to XML and create a web archive of them (On of their "bounties" for un-engaged projects)</div> <div>Get a girlfriend (Lol!)</div> <div> </div> <div>I'd be highly intersted in that file system design thing -- I want to make one eventually for my yet stagnant OS design aspirations, but haven't a clue where to start.</div> <div> </div> <div>Siggy<br> </div><br><br> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich Johnson</b> <<a href="mailto:nixternal@ubuntu.com">nixternal@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Thursday 31 August 2006 23:30, John Quigley wrote:<br>> Rich, et. al.:<br>> > Cool John, welcome to the group. <br>><br>> Thank you, sir!  Sorry for not making my presence known earlier, I<br>> should have introduced myself when I subscribed.<br>><br>> > I just hooked up with the CoD LUG, just tonight actually since I am <br>> > taking some classes there and they are quite close.<br>><br>> Tell them the Chicago LUG sends a hearty "hello!"<br>><br>> > Anywho, i know you are a  hacker, and we have a lot of guys that <br>> ><br>>  > want to learn, so a future hackfest might be in order ;)<br>><br>> I've been known to take a turn or two with code, and I'd particularly<br>> love to help in organizing a hack fest.  We could tackle some systems <br>> project specific in the Ubuntu domain, and divvy out jobs so that we<br>> could get everyone (even non-coders) involved.<br>><br>> The Chicago LUG just had a successful Hack-a-thon this summer where we<br> > designed and wrote a file system in a single day: it's lots of fun and a<br>> good bonding experience.<br>><br>> Regards,<br>> John Quigley<br><br>John,<br><br>That might be what the doctor ordered. I know some of the guys who are <br>developers just yet are very interested, but don't want to be left out. I<br>think something like this would be a great learning experience, that I know I<br>sure could use as well. I always said, I can read the code, just can't speak <br>it clearly yet. But hopefully these C++, C#, and Python courses will help fix<br>that ;)<br><br>I'm sure the guys here would be interested in learning more about a hack fest,<br>even if it wasn't distro dependent. Thanks again John, and I will pass the <br>news on to the CoD LUG, which it seems some of them have made it out to your<br>past events as well. Talk to you soon.<br><br>--<br>Richard Johnson <> <a href="mailto:nixternal@ubuntu.com">nixternal@ubuntu.com</a> <br><a href="http://ubuntu.com">ubuntu.com</a> <> <a href="http://kubuntu.com">kubuntu.com</a> <> <a href="http://edubuntu.com">edubuntu.com</a> <> <a href="http://xubuntu.com">xubuntu.com</a> <> <a href="http://chi.ubuntu-us.com"> chi.ubuntu-us.com</a><br>online everywhere as nixternal<br><><<br><br><br>--<br>Ubuntu-us-chicago mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago</a><br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>My home page:  <a href="http://www.SigmaX.org">http://www.SigmaX.org</a><br><br>"ttocs laeno cire oshkosh b'gosh fyedernoggersnodden nicht stein bon probiscus" <br><br>"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school"<br>              -- Albert Einstein