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Fall 2006 Grades

Currently still waiting on 304, but otherwise, a very good quarter!

Boo-yeah!

Course Course Title Credits Grade Grade
Points
BIOEN 302 INTRO BIOMED INSTR 4.0 3.8 15.20
BIOEN 304 BIOEN PHYSIOLOGY 4.0 3.7 14.80
CSE 322 INTRO FORMAL MODELS 3.0 3.9 11.70
CSE 378 MC ORG & ASSEM LANG 4.0 4.0 16.00
Graded Credits
Attempted
Grade Points
Earned
Grade Point
Average
Total Credits
Earned
15.0 57.70 3.85 15.0

It Was Only A Matter Of Time

That right, folks, Ryan needs a new car!

Christmas 2006

May this day and this season bring lasting joy, peace, and gratitude.

And now, my favorite Christmas Hymn, What Child Is This:

What Child is this, who laid to rest
On Mary’s lap is sleeping?
Whom Angels greet with anthems sweet,
While shepherds watch are keeping?

This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and Angels sing;
Haste, haste, to bring Him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.

Why lies He in such mean estate,
Where ox and ass are feeding?
Good Christians, fear, for sinners here
The silent Word is pleading.

This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and Angels sing;
Haste, haste, to bring Him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.

So bring Him incense, gold and myrrh,
Come peasant, king to own Him;
The King of kings salvation brings,
Let loving hearts enthrone Him.

This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and Angels sing;
Haste, haste, to bring Him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.

Useful Windows Device Manager Trick

Ever wanted to remove that driver for the hardware you no longer have installed? Well, with this information [techrepublic.com], now you can. Copied here for convenience:

Takeaway: Did you know that unless you uninstall a device driver on a Windows XP machine that it still may be sucking up valuable system resources? Here are step-by-step instructions on how you can view and remove these unnecessary devices.

When you install a device driver on a Windows XP machine, the operating system loads that driver each time the computer boots regardless of whether the device is present—unless you specifically uninstall the driver. This means that drivers from devices that you have long since removed from your system may be wasting valuable system resources.

Follow these steps to view and remove these unnecessary device drivers:

1. Press [Windows]+[Break] to bring up the System Properties dialog box.
2. Select the Advanced tab and click the Environment Variables button.
3. Click the New button below the System Variables panel.
4. In the New System Variable dialog box, type devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices in the Variable Name text box and 1 in the Variable Value text box.
5. Click OK to return to the System Properties dialog box and then click OK again.
6. Select the Hardware tab and click the Device Manager button.
7. In Device Manager, go to View | Show Hidden Devices.
8. Expand the various branches in the device tree and look for the washed out icons, which indicate unused device drivers.
9. To remove an unused device driver, right-click the icon and select Uninstall.

Java and Com Ports

Win32Driver…
javax.comm…

This is ridiculous!

It shouldn’t be this hard, Sun.

One of my implementations:

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Dun dun dun done

Friday night, the term paper was submitted and I was officially DONE with school for the quarter.

Yay.

Grade Predictions, Fall 2006

CSE 378 – I’m gonna be bold and say 4.0
CSE 322 – I think I did well… 3.8
BioEn 302 – Lets be optimistic and say 3.9
Bioen 304 – Lets be honest and say 3.0