Of Penguins & Coffee

I hadn’t used Mercurial before so I thought it might be a good idea to leave a reminder for me and anyone else who comes across it…

For tidyness, I do all of my dev-stuff (Subversion, Mercurial, CVS, Git etc) under ~/src and only take root privileges when its needed; any good makefile should relocate the necessary files for you at the ‘make install’ or equivalent point.

Update:This article was picked up by the guys at DevCheatSheet.com and I’m really honoured to be included in a site that I’ve been dipping into over the years, so if you need any kind of cheat sheet or quick reference, I highly recommend checking them out. Anyway…

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I had been looking at this years Google Summer Of Code google group and saw the list of  organisations that are getting involved. While i was alooking at it, I knew i didn’t want to even consider the big boys (I’m looking at you, Debian, Drupal, KDE, Apache, X.Org, etc), they’re too big to get my teeth into, and I’m currently in the throws of ‘WHAT THE HELL AM I GOING TO DO MY FINAL YEAR PROJECT ON!!! ‘ (For any Americans, that means ‘dissertation’).

My university is big into networking etc, so I had a look at the NS-3 Network Simulator, which currently sits at slightly less that 2 million lines of code, and is vaguinly within my realm of interest so I’m going to see a) if i can get it to work and play with it for a bit and b) if i can contribute anything to the project and parlay that into a final year project, and I’ll be documenting whatever progress I get on this blog.

I doubt that I’ll apply to GSOC as I don’t think I’d be able to give the required time committment over the summer.

Anyway, Next blog post will be a start into the installation and configuration of NS-3 on my virtualised Ubuntu setup.