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Yesterday was the wireless datalink and routing protocols lecture, part 1 and part 2 are at the usual place (it went pretty well).

The next lecture is at April the 13th, because of the damn easter holidays – they managed to catch two of our lectures.

I’m getting more and more confident that there’s something wrong with me. Most people, when faced with doing something that they’re not really sure how to do with some software, start playing with it, reading documentation, asking other people. I for some reason am using some kind of brute force method that includes searching through the documentation with google, reading strace dumps, grepping through the source and in the database dump and all kinds of such rough methods… Half an hour ago I was digging in moodle to see how exactly are we going to put the grades in it and in the end found that they need to be into mdl_assignment_submission table (Chorbadzhiyski, you have 30 points on the first test :) ).
I hate the complex systems, but it’s fun to dig in them.

(I still remember how I found the courier-mta configuration option not to bounce messages with bad MIME – grepped through the source, and how much php/perl/python code I’ve debugged with ltrace and strace).

It’s good that I didn’t write some dirty hack inside, as I have that habit. Some day I’ll gather all such patches that I’ve done on some problems, will print them and put them on the wall, to remind me never to do such stuff again.

(Sunday I updated my machine and went from Xgl to X with AIGLX, again with compiz. It lags a lot, should check why.)

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