Category Archives: school and teaching

I found this in my inbox yesterday: We will be adding a security layer (SSL) to the Blackboard site on Monday to provide greater security. We anticipate that this process will go smoothly. Please let us know if you have … Continue reading →

At Montclair State University introductory Java classes are taught using the BlueJ IDE. I cannot say that I do not understand the reasoning behind this choice. I know exactly what the instructors and administration is trying to achieve here. You … Continue reading →

The other day they finally opened up port 22 on one of my workstations at school. We also got assigned a static IP on the school network which means I can now log into that box from anywhere in the … Continue reading →

It seems that the paperwork needed to finally register my thesis course is going to get done by the end of the week. And I think my assistantship is still going to cover it. I’m really relieved that I will … Continue reading →

I finally found someone who can compete with Dr. Edoh for the Worst Computer Science Instructor Award. At least Edoh attempted to teach us data structures using Java. This guy picked VB: Wow… Just wow… I seriously think that any … Continue reading →

What do you do if there are 2-3 books and journals that you kinda might need for your research, but you know you will most likely only use few paragraphs out of a single chapter in each of them? a) … Continue reading →

OMG! They stole my outline!!!! Shamelessly lifted from Piled Higher and Deeper.

Wohoo! I got A in the OS class! When I first saw my final exam back, I freaked out because there were allot of notes and corrections on it. It said I got 314, but I did not know out … Continue reading →

This is the end of the year. Finals are wrapping up, grades need to be posted by 15th and we have a convocation, and graduation ceremony preparations going on in full swing. It will all be over in few days. … Continue reading →

Sigma-Xi 2006 – Me Originally uploaded by maciakl. This weekend I presented the mp3stego project at the Sigma-Xi conference. As usual, the only people who came to watch CS talks were CS majors who were also presenting that day, and … Continue reading →

Yesterday we were informed that we can bring a cheat sheet for the Programming Languages final on Tuesday. The cheat sheet can be composed of 4 pages of notes, double sided. You can print them, if you want, an there … Continue reading →

I finished the Shell assignment for my OS class. All the basic requirements are met. I’m planning to play around with it some more, to add pipes, redirection, and allow user to run native apps from within. But that’s just … Continue reading →

The CS department has a weekly Coffee Hour on Thursdays at 3:30 in the conference room on the third floor. Both students and faculty are invited. It is a very informal setting where you can chat just about anything with … Continue reading →

I just found out that I was the only student in class who actually produced a working implementation of Banker’s Algorithm for the OS class. My weekend was totally shot, but I submitted a finished product that was runnable some … Continue reading →

One of the question on my Operating Systems exam today was to show two examples where multi-threaded implementation does not provide better performance than single threaded implementation. We were supposed to write some code/pseudocode to illustrate this… Every person I … Continue reading →

I just spent an inordinate amount of time on Dr. Deremer’s BNF homework. I’m still not sure if I got everything right but I just don’t feel like looking at it again. I still haven’t figured out a way to … Continue reading →