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I was lookin through some of Lorde Omlette's code today, seeing about porting his rdf fetcher to linux. The code is heavy on the system calls, and heavy on the being in C#, a language I've never really read anything about. It seems easy enough to read; not much different from C actually, but I couldn't make my way through the fn calls to even start to think about porting it. I think I might end up making a clone instead; It'd be easier. Hell, I could make a script in about 15 minutes that would accomplish the same (good old Linux and all of its nifty cmd line tools; wget and diff), but I think I'm going to use this agenda to learn a little about QT. I think I might change the tool too, to be more useful (boyaw!) and check more than rdf files; but this in itself might be misleading. I'll have to test various implementations first, and see what works.

So after week one of running linux, and week two of wondering just when the hell this company is going to send me my hard drive, I must say I'm rather comfortable with the state of my current install. I wish I had taken better notes during it, because sometimes when my brain is tired, I forget everything I'm doing.

I've been playing with PHP on the Apache server that's currently running on my box. It's pretty easy to code in, and I already feel comfortable in the environment. The fact that its a veritable clone of Perl didn't hurt, even though I don't know perl, because the fact that Perl is a veritable clone of sh, which I do know, means that it was far easier for me to pick up PHP than it was for you to follow the grammar of this sentence. I got a basic file browser working, although I think I'm going to go back tonight and add file sizes to the output, and right now I'm solidifying the framework for a PHP BBS. Currently I'm still a bit undecided whether or not to make each thread a folder or a file; a folder would add another level of complication towards getting files, but would provide an easier and more efficient way of thread display. I think I might go ahead and design the visual structure with CSS first so that I don't need to go back and change all of my code. I just made the decision about 5 minutes ago that there should be a way to rebuild the whole database with changes that I make to the front end. That should prove to be a challenge. Perhaps there will be format areas of each thread post and content areas. Who knows.

Oh well, I'm going to go finish re-doing the bathroom, then head on down to A&P for some dinner-material. JING(DJ) out.