Wooooo-eeeeee.... the paper is up to 25 pages now (and I haven't written the majority of section 7 yet!). I spent the entire day revising it. Properly designing a software system is a lot of work. But (like I've said countless times before), it's cool stuff. There are some really delicious issues and problems that would never expect from a plain ol' manager/worker problem. I think I've got one more major revision before I unleash it to some others to read.
Had some more interaction with the guys who are having rsh/lamboot issues. Seems like rsh is not the problem after all. It may be faulty handling of stderr/stdout processing. The guy was running some simulations on his cluster; he said that he would try some new code of mine when that finished. We'll see if we can finally solve this problem.
Blockbuster sucks.
They sent a threatening letter to me at my parent's house in Philadelphia claiming that I had not returned the Fight Club DVD to the Berkeley Blockbuster store for almost two weeks. The happened to mention that the matter had already been turned over to a collection agency. Great.
I checked with Lummy and he definitely remembers returning it (we rented 3 DVDs; Fight Club had to be back in 1.5 days, the others were 5 day rentals). We returned Fight Club before it was due, and watched the other 2 later. I was with Lummy to on one of the "return to Blockbuster" trips, but not the other, and I couldn't remember which was which.
Anyway, I called the Berkeley store and told them that I was absolutely positive that I had returned the DVD. They guy looked it up in the computer and said, "Oh yeah... we found it on the shelf later." Over 2 weeks later, apparently!!
So I was about to be fined and have a big bad black spot put on my credit record because of some clerk kid's stupid mistake in Berkeley. Blockbuster was about to fine me without even checking with me (the letter claimed that Blockbuster tried to call and snail mail me, but I never got any messages or snail mail). What the heck is that all about? And then they send the final notice to somewhere that I haven't lived for well over a decade.
The whole thing kinda pisses me off. I don't know how excited I'll be to go back to a Blockbuster.
Ahhh.... screw it. Miles to code before I sleep.
Mmmmm... code..... mmm.....