Archive for March, 2005

Living Near the Mountains

Friday, March 4th, 2005

I found many things on my visit to Caltech two years ago that I thought I would really enjoy if I lived in Pasadena. One of those things happens to be the San Gabriel Mountains a few miles north of campus. I took the picture below from the patio of ...

Congratulations and the File Server

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

Heather passed her candidacy exam today. Congratulations Heather! The first official Ph.D. candidate amongst our ranks. A job very well done.I was picking up some paperwork from the office on the second floor of Thomas (the mechanical engineering building on campus) today, and I walked past Vaughan on my way ...

Linux Magazine Interviews Linus Torvalds

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

Linus Torvalds is the man who originally created Linux and has been an integral part of the maintenance of the kernel (the core component of what is known as the "GNU/Linux" or just "Linux" operating system) since its inception (which was in 1992). If you read any Linux news sites, ...