canutethegreat

I've been playing with crark, a RAR archive cracker, for the past couple of days. It can use a CPU or the GPU to do the computations. However, it does not seem to parallelize anything. What's the point in that? Ideally it would parallelize the checking and the computations.. but at least make the checking parallel since that is the biggest bottleneck. I haven't looked...
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You know when you get a little behind on something because of other commitments and kind of think to yourself that you'll catch up over the weekend?

Yeah, that was me two weeks ago.

I just realized that I'm now two full chapters behind in my math class and we have a double-header test this Friday.

Now I really have to play catch up...

Damn.. 5am shows up awful fast when you don't fall asleep until after midnight!

I feel like we, these people of the United States of America, have begun a journey down a road from which we shall not return.

A path with consequences that will not be able to recover from.

A road that has been traveled by the Romans, and many, many more us.

I fear that it may already be too late in some ways, but there...
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Sad facts about my (almost) decade long pursuit of higher education:

• 1. It took me 4 years to finish an Associate in Arts and Sciences degree at Whatcom Community College. Why? I only went part-time (with only a few exceptions) and I changed majors several times: graduated as a History major, but I had enough credits to have graduated as a Administration of Justice (my...
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Two steps forward, one step back!

So financial aid went through without a hangup, but come to find out I'm only getting a little over $1k back after tuition is paid.. why? because I'm a post-bac student and only eligible for loans and not grants (I already knew that) but Federal limits on the amount of loan money you can receive each year limits me...
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I spent my birthday and the day after sick.. not from partying, but from the flu. I was hoping it was just a bad cold, but no such luck!

Oh, and winter quarter starts tomorrow! My first class is at 8am. yay me!

"...creative Labs makes some shitty software..." -- Me, early 90s. Surprise! That statement is still true today! Just spent 20 minutes on a customer's computer "fixing" things that creative's software screwed up.

They must hire the software developers that Micro$oft rejects...

When it rains, it pours!

I haven't had any computer work for two+ weeks and now all on one day I have 4 computers that need repair and a fifth one that I have to pickup tomorrow.

Two desktops, two laptops, and one netbook.

Hopefully I can get through them all before middle of next week...

I am once again a Computer Science major! After 3 trips to the registrars office, 3 trips to financial aid, and one trip (plus several emails) to the CS department, I finally got my previous declaration as a CS major reinstated.

Now I just have to get financial aid on board with the fact that this second bachelors degree does not conflict with my first....
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