Last night I designed and queued up about 20 sheep to render over spring break. Now I am laying on a bed in Galion, Ohio. We (the GC Choir) drove for 8+ hours on a coach bus today: a good time of watching scenery, hanging out with Jaime, and listening to Mars Ill and a few other choice CDs. Tomorrow we are singing in a Good Friday service @ noon, then performing a concert in the evening. I’m hoping to have some time to read up on parallel programming or dig into Eclipse a bit more if I have some free time during tour.

Yesterday the GC Cluster group met and we finished setting up the OpenMosix cluster. We also discussed using VNC to connect to it from elsewhere on campus.

Tonight I connected to the cluster using X forwarding over SSH. What does that mean? I can use the cluster from the comfort of my own room. Even better, unlike VNC, X forwarding can run X11 apps in the window manager that is running on the client machine. On my Macs, that means it runs within OS X styled windows. Now that the cluster is useable and easily accessible, we are able to move on to parallel programming.

For the past week and a half, I have been experimenting with Electric Sheep (ES) and I’ve decided to make it a part of my DM portfolio. My PowerMac is hosting the ES server - written in perl and including some executables written in C. Tonight I got the final portion of the server working (hopefully): uploading sheep designed in Apophysis. Apparently the clone feature of anim-flame, which is required for the uploading process only exists in some versions of the code. It was added in version 1.16, but is gone now. Weird.

Here it is, finally. The long overdue overhaul of JARinteractive.com is here. Gone is the marketing hype, here to stay is the personal site of James. The blog will likely focus mostly on technology, with other random bits thrown in here and there.