Archive for June, 2005
After all that has been done … this is what you got… just a piece of paper…
I personally learned a lot in this project. It was a great accomplishment for us! We presented our one year span of research, testing and implementation to a group of audience from NASA/JPL, the engineering industry, facutly members and parents.
June 13th, 2005
My grades for Spring Quarter 2005 is out today. Nothing suprizing at all.. I have worked hard in that quarter and would continue to do so…I have also received a letter of congratulations for Winter Quarter 2005 for my accomplishement in that quarter… I ended up with a lot of these letters since I got it every quarter…. nothing that I should be too proud of
Some information on the picture are smudged for privacy reason.
June 13th, 2005
I searched through the storage today and took out an old machine. Attached an old 550 MHz Pentium III processor and an ancient 10 GB Hard Disk Drive. I have downloaded i386 iso images of Fedora Core 3. Spend some time burning them to CD. After an hour or so for download and burning time, I happily install Fedora Core 3 into the machine. Everything went smoothly that far. I am able to boot up, login and network is working great. Then, I rebooted the machine several times through ssh. On the third time, I heard a clicking sound and then pops, rushed to the machine, switch the power off, took out the cover and that familiar burning smell. Took out the HD and found the seagate chip fried… I do not know the cause of that. I guess it was due to a bad old HD. This is the first time that I have a fried HD. I hope it would not happen again. I am planning to reattach a new hard drive to that machine and see what happens next.
June 12th, 2005
One of my server running an old Red Hat Linux OS has reached 209 days of uptime. As you can see, the load on this particular machine is not stressed that much. A great stable system and I am happy to see such an uptime…
[root@liberty root]# uptime
8:09pm up 209 days, 10:48, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
[root@liberty proc]# date
Wed Jun 8 20:11:38 PDT 2005
June 8th, 2005
I have completed my senior team project and I am proud of the accomplishment. My team project is to design a robotic rover that is capable of autonomous navigation. I have a lot of fun working on this project with the rest of the team members. The picture above is our NASA PAIR Grant robotic rover sponsored by NASA.
June 8th, 2005