Silent cry

The notes of the piano were like daggers in my soul. The fantastic voice was a reminder of an old failure I thought was for ever forgotten and I felt bad. And then her voice came out the handle to save my time, to save my day and mind.

Sometimes I feel like I was blind. Sometimes lost memories come ahead from far behind . . . they come to hunt. And then I scratch my soul with a desperate feeling and a silent cry comes out of my brain but not my mouth. . . it comes to eat. . . it feeds from me. . . it feeds alone and free.

Robot Party

I managed to change some of my motors. Each team will now have two identical motors. However I'd prefer robots not to follow the typical holonomic design. Those motors are very efficient. Their maximum current is 350mA hence people will be able to drive them with small general purpose transistor arrays.

AVR confirmed for the Robot party

In our robot party we will use AT Mega 16. We will program them using an in system programmer and GCC from Linux(avr-libc, binutils-avr, gcc-avr, gdb-avr).

Sudoku

I solved this one today. Cool huh?

Robot party 2008

Well, we finally have quorum for the robot party 2008.

Arhuaco, Lowfill and Lizzy have confirmed. It gives us 2 people per team. It would be good to have two more experts at least, though.

I will make up a list of possible goals and introduce them in a bag. The day of the robot party each member will take out one goal and discard it. The last goal that remains in the bag will be the one to solve in the party.

During the party, teams will be given the same materials. Then they will have 6 hours to build a robot to solve the problem. When the time is out, teams will meet and their robots will compete for between 15 minutes and 30 minutes.

Experts will be shared for questions, no matters their team, to give the party a more collaborative environment.

Mate in 2

From a Human Vs. GNU-Chess game.

Jconsole with jboss

Jconsole comes with sun jdk 5 and above. It offers a lot of possibilities to manage the virtual machine of your java applications. To use it with jboss you can add the "-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote" option to the run.conf (or run.bat in windows). Then you just run jconsole ($JAVA_HOME/bin).
You can monitor the memory use and call the garbage collector manually among other things.

Sybase tran log space in master

All we needed to do was a little maintenance :

isql -U USERNAME -P PASSWORD -S SERVERNAME
use master
go
dump tran DATABASENAME with no_log

Round Eyes

I love her round eyes,
when she looks at me
sharing a part of her heart with me
I feel her inside, deep inside my soul.
I can feel with her that I'm not alone, not any more.
She makes me dream,
dream of her, dream of happiness.
Deam of broken pieces that come together for good,
for her and for me.
Deep eyes, round eyes, brown eyes,
please stay always like that with me.

Another Nina's birthday : 77 years !!

It appears Life has given us the chance of another year with Nina. She's very dear to us: she is smart and happy and knows a lot of life for she has lived lots of things in hers. Long live to Nina. Nina: your family loves you.