May 18, 2010
Yea! I finally found the tutorial on how to use Xilinx's ISE program to turn VHDL into bitfiles that can run on the avnet Spartan 3A Evaluation Kit[1]. I followed the included tutorial that sets up a counter and sets the LEDs to display the top bits of the count, except I made some simple changes t…
May 01, 2010
Lately, work has been satisfying my software development drive, so I've started getting back into another hobby - electronics. I dug out an old 'lots of projects in 1' kit from my closet and sent out a few orders to various places (primarily mouser, amazon, and ebay) to start creating a full kit to…
September 07, 2009
I had my 0th wedding anniversary yesterday (September 6th, 2009).
June 25, 2009
Life is good, but busy. The new job is working out great. Working on interesting, challenging problems is much better than tedium.
On June 8, 2008, I met an amazing woman and spent over 4 hours enjoying conversation with her over lunch. On June 18, 2009, I presented her with a ring, and she accepted…
On June 8, 2008, I met an amazing woman and spent over 4 hours enjoying conversation with her over lunch. On June 18, 2009, I presented her with a ring, and she accepted…
February 26, 2009
Near the end of last year, I found out that my employer was closing the branch I was working in, and that I could continue on until the office was actually closed in December. After we (the employees of the closing branch) found out, we made an argument for a later date that coincided with a contra…
February 03, 2009
A while back, there was a big post in the lounge about the fun game Fantastic Contraption. I liked it enough to register and created a rather challenging level titled, creatively, Extrarius 1. The next thing I did was to solve my own level to be sure it could be done. My solution is fairly simple, …
January 02, 2008
I realized when making this post that I'd hadn't announced that I graduated here. On Dec 14, 2007, I got my B.Sc. in Computer Science. Well, actually, I don't have the degree yet - an ID was required before they would hand over the degree after the ceremony, and I forgot to bring one, but I did gra…
June 10, 2007
If you've kept up with various threads over the years, you might have noticed that I repeatedly mention a boycott of games, movies, music, etc for various reasons and that the only way I get such things is as gifts.
Well, I finally found an artist awesome enough to buy - the amazing "Weird Al" Yanko…
Well, I finally found an artist awesome enough to buy - the amazing "Weird Al" Yanko…
March 20, 2007
Hello, World. I'm Extrarius, and I'm a domain reserver. That's right - I get a "good idea" for a domain name and then register it, even though I know I'll never have time to work on the project (if I even have a project in mind).
For example, I recently made a joke to a friend about making reviews f…
For example, I recently made a joke to a friend about making reviews f…
December 29, 2006
I was just going through some of my old files when I found this gem:
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Deja vu Nostalgia, Deja vu.
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Deja vu Nostalgia, Deja vu.
November 16, 2006
I was just going through some old code when I found a 'TrigTest' program I made to benchmark various trig approximations for a thread here a while back. Since I originally compiled it using VS 2003, I now have VS 2005, and I've heard many complaints about VS 2005's optimizer, I decided to recompile…
October 16, 2006
After buying the Asomiv collection "I, Robot" twice, I decided it'd probably be a good idea to catalogue all the books (and the short stories in those books, where applicable) that I own. I had a few spare minutes this morning, so I went over one shelf and have recorded the title and ISBN (or, for …
June 29, 2006
C++ templates are fun. I hadn't gotten "warning C4503: decorated name length exceeded, name was truncated" in MSVS since I stopped using 6 years ago, but just now I had a project gain 85 such warnings after adding some classes like the following:
template typename TMemberType,
const TMemberType TCl…
June 18, 2006
Please, for the love of all that is well-engineered, do not use QueryPerformanceCounter for timing.
Thank you,
Owner of a Dual-Core CPU
Thank you,
Owner of a Dual-Core CPU
June 14, 2006
Last night I received and set up my new machine, and even though I don't have much installed, it already seems MUCH faster.
Previously, I had an Athlon 2400+ (2.0 GHz) with 640MB of PC2100 RAM. Now I'm running an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2.0 GHz) with 2.0GB (Dual Channel 2x 1GB) of DDR400 RAM and the mac…
Previously, I had an Athlon 2400+ (2.0 GHz) with 640MB of PC2100 RAM. Now I'm running an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2.0 GHz) with 2.0GB (Dual Channel 2x 1GB) of DDR400 RAM and the mac…
April 18, 2006
If you ever decide it'd be a good idea to implement your own memory heap system for whatever reason, make sure you do it correctly, which includes combining multiple small neighboring blocks into a single larger block at least occasionally if you allow blocks to be split. Also, while a linked list …
December 05, 2005
Yay! I finally get to sleep after 48 hours of last-minute-start-and-finish-a-major-school-project.
Over the last 48 hours (during which I had no sleep), I wrote 65KB (counting end file size, which excludes the initial work I did since I started over) of barely commented C++ code that implements the …
Over the last 48 hours (during which I had no sleep), I wrote 65KB (counting end file size, which excludes the initial work I did since I started over) of barely commented C++ code that implements the …
November 15, 2005
Desipite the fact that school computers are underpowered (128MB of RAM isn't enough for a near-default WinXP Pro install) and filled with crap (despite all kinds of 'protective measures' that are instantly nullified by the fact that the 'guest' account is a local admin on every machine), they usual…
October 19, 2005
I just had an awesome idea for a website: InaneRavings.Com
Note that it's all just rhetoric meant to gather a 'community' (so much as such a site could)
It will take a lot of work, but I think it will be quite popular once I get it up and running.
I'm wondering if the page looks the same on other brow…
Note that it's all just rhetoric meant to gather a 'community' (so much as such a site could)
It will take a lot of work, but I think it will be quite popular once I get it up and running.
I'm wondering if the page looks the same on other brow…
October 10, 2005
Checking my web logs, I noticed somebody had not only 'stole' some of my art (below), but they had forums linking straight to my site so they were leeching bandwidth too =-( It isn't a lot, but it was kind of a slap in the face to see that kind of thing going on.
It's nice to see that the person lik…
It's nice to see that the person lik…
September 30, 2005
Well, today I (hopefully) finished my first ever crunch time. Lucky for me, it only lasted a day and that only meant putting in 15 hours in 24. Unfortunately for me, I'm working so few hours(part time) that those extra 11 won't put me up to overtime pay.
Basically, I found out thursday that some of …
Basically, I found out thursday that some of …
September 07, 2005
I've really been wanting to get into VHDL, despite the poor quality of Xilinx's software mentioned several pages back, so I decided to try the latest version of the free Xilinx software to see if they fixed the many problems I noticed. Surely they would have, since it would be a big selling point t…
August 31, 2005
Don't you just hate it when your professor doesn't know what he/she is talking about? It seems that some of my professors haven't touched a computer as a 'power user' in 20+ years, which makes them give all kind of bad advice. =-(
Semi-related, I finally got a decent assignment during my 'college ca…
Semi-related, I finally got a decent assignment during my 'college ca…
July 25, 2005
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
UNDER 21 DRIVER LICENSE
UNDER 21 UNTIL 07-25-05
Class: C DL:
DOB: Expires:
REST: A
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EYES: GRN <| Picture |>
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June 30, 2005
I look on the dell site to check on some stuff in my account, and I notice there is a new special - get a free Windows Mobile 5.0 CD with the purchase of a new Dell Axim X50v. I thought I might as well try to get it since I JUST bought mine, so I go to online support and talk to them, and it should…
June 23, 2005
Wow, GameDev.net really sucks for mobile devices. Some kind of mobile-friendly interface would be awesome.
(Just got my Dell Axim X50v, and besides the inability to remove MSN messenger and a crappy calculator {I want windows-style sci mode}, it's pretty nice so far)
(Just got my Dell Axim X50v, and besides the inability to remove MSN messenger and a crappy calculator {I want windows-style sci mode}, it's pretty nice so far)
May 24, 2005
I finally decided to actually do something about my lack of (project and code) design skills, so at the suggestion of several people here and elsehwere I've ordered:
Design Patterns
Modern C++ Design
Code Complete, Second Edition
Hopefully those will get me started in the right direction (if not furthe…
Design Patterns
Modern C++ Design
Code Complete, Second Edition
Hopefully those will get me started in the right direction (if not furthe…
April 10, 2005
Well, since I received no RoShamBo entries, I guess I'm the winner. Yay! =-/
Oh well, I guess I'll restructure it and try to find some prize and run it again one day.
Oh well, I guess I'll restructure it and try to find some prize and run it again one day.
March 25, 2005
I created a website for the previously mentioned RoShamBo competition, which you can find here.
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