Today I worked on the smoketest for my X/O laptop. Most of it was pretty straight forward, but connecting to the internet here was really annoying. I couldn’t get my laptop to connect to WPA2, but I was able to get it to connect to the open RIT connection after going through the hassle of registering it on start.rit.edu and… Read more →
HFOSS
All of the blog posts for my HFOSS class
Bugfix
I was assigned the bugfix homework assignment this weekend and I decided to start looking around at what things I could bugfix. I started looking at the bounty bugfix website, but after going to even the cheapest possible bugfix I realized that none of these were really good for me because they were all in languages I didn’t understand. I… Read more →
Litreview #1
Author: Steve Weber Title: The Success of Open Source Chapter: 3 What is open source and how does it work? URL: http://hfoss-ritjoe.rhcloud.com/static/books/Weber-SuccessofOpenSource-Chap3.pdf Publishing Year: 2004 Summary: This chapter is pretty much a history of open source, why it works, different success stories of open source projects, and tips on how to do open source. The Good: I think it’s cool that… Read more →
Global Game Jam
The Global Game Jam (GGJ) was this past weekend starting Friday Jan. 29th going nonstop until Sunday Jan. 31st. The Global Game Jam is a global event where people get together and make games in 48 hours using a theme they get when they arrive. I went to the GGJ this year and made a game with five other people… Read more →
Resolution
Turns out I didn’t need to install the environment and that I wasted several hours of my time yesterday… Read more →
First Flight Installing the Virtualenv
This was the worst thing ever. I’m running this on my windows 10 computer and everything went wrong. After my first post I only had to do the github part of this assignment and it went so terribly. First off the instructions for this part of the assignment are terrible, it only works if you are using a unix based… Read more →
My First Flight
Well here we go, it’s my first blog post required by HFOSS. I’m supposed to be writing down what I did for the First Flight assignment. First, I went into the IRC chat and messed around with that for a while and then realized I wasn’t paying any attention to the professor. After that I tuned into the professor and… Read more →