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... II, Calculus IV, and Statics. I have decided to tutor C++/CS210 for two, possibly three hours per week.  That could be up to three students; I'll allocate my time on a first-come, first-served basis.  ...
... truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough ...
There are times you want to copy a selection of files, potentially from various directories, into a single directory.  As you may be aware, the GNU copy command, `cp', will not read a list of such files ...
... groups, being met in the hall by the Judge's bailiff. It didn't occur to me at the time, but looking back with 20/20 hindsight, it would have been good to try to communicate my concerns to the bailiff ...
Sadly, we didn't win.  But neither did Jensen Maritime. :-) On a positive note, none of the teams sank or swamped, though of course everyone took on at least a little water.  Most of the shots below ...
6. Quick & Dirty Prototype
(News/College)
... the boat took on a great deal of water, the design still should work well if we pay better attention to sealing the hulls.  I just hope we can beat Jensen Maritime, last year's winner.  ...
7. Go Johannes, go, go!
(News/Aerospace Engineering)
Woot! The Kepler mission was successfully launched at 7:49:57 pm PST time on March 6, 2009! According to Wikipedia, Kepler's goals are to: Determine how many terrestrial and larger planets there ...
... would more than double the peacetime record during Ronald Reagan's presidency, and approach the mark set in 1942 as the U.S. joined World War II. The debt itself is about $10.7 trillion, about 40% of ...
... user time to read screen echo. pause Due to Microsoft's stupidity, it is easy to wind up with a file named "backup_databases.bat.txt".  This won't work; you will need to rename it to get rid of the ...
10. Jury Duty
(News/Liberty)
... still wants me to serve as a juror, then I will do my duty consistent with the above. However, serving on February 4th, or anytime close to that would be an undue hardship, as I am a college student, ...
... this hack. Now that it works, I notice another bug: everytime you save an article in the front-end, the publish date increments 8 hours (I happen to be in PST, so UTC -0800), potentially making a published ...
12. You've Come a Long Way, Babe
(News/Aerospace Engineering)
Happy Birthday Spirit! It's been an amazing five years since your thrilling plunge through the thin Martian atmosphere, bouncing to a stop in Gusev Crater.  Lasting twenty times longer than your principal ...
13. Pacifica First Impressions
(News/Computers)
... a first time for me!  On the previous pacifica, it would never connect, so I had to connect via a shell script I wrote. Sound The sound also didn't work out of the box, or so it seemed at first.  After ...
... those times, I need a laptop. Pacifica the elder was an HP Pavilion zd7260us 17" desktop-replacement laptop, and she served me well, despite the problems with HP's onboard Nvidia video card burning ...
15. archive.MarkTaff.com
(Portfolio/Recent Websites)
archive.MarkTaff.com is the previous incarnation of this site.  There are a few things that are incompatible with Dreamhost, and I'm not sure I'll take the time to kill those bugs, just for an archive.  ...
... ticking time bombs. Millions of American men and women have served courageously under fire only to come home and find hysterics like Sugarmann ready to strip them of rights. Sugarmann, in a remarkable ...
17. About Me
('Uncategorised Content')
... time in Oshkosh). While we moved fairly regularly, we stayed in Oshkosh and Marion Wisconsin until I was finished with 5th grade.  ...
18. Dave's Pocketship
(Web Links / Boat Building)
A pictorial history of the building of the Curtis family "Pocketship" sailboat. Hopefully, this will be a well documented record from choosing what sailboat to build to the first time the sailboat is put ...
19. KDE - The K Desktop Environment
(Web Links / Linux)
... productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. ...

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