So I have some SPICE simulations due for a laboratory tomorrow. I like the way that when you print to to my "Apple Laserwriter 16/600" in PSPICE, I get a postscript file where the plot is a single vector. You can see applications drawing the plot on the fly. It makes me want to own a plotter, just so I can watch the arm go around and around in a circle on the page.
 | Simulation 1
An excellent plot, it has a nice linear region, just as I expected. Allowed me to determine the linear operating region of the amplifier based off the input voltage. |
 | Simulation 2
Another great plot, nice and linear. The gradient here gives the resistance of the input, and I think it indicates there is a slight phase shift (as it's really a very long ellipse, and not a line). |
 | Simulation 3
Unconvinced this is at all what it is meant to look like. In fact, I'm not sure how you would read anything useful of this plot, and as such, I have no idea what I did wrong. |
I'm sure there are lots of people who were either very bored just now, or thinking how trivial my coursework is. Basically, I am several electric systems units behind where I should be, due to my doing computer science and digital systems units instead.
Going in Canberra in about 47 hours.
Not a lot to say programming-wise, been working through my massive to-do list. I have christened it, The Queue. Lots of fun things like implementing breadth first search of graphs, doing SPICE simulations, and writing a software testing manual in Docbook. When I haven't been doing those things, we've been playing a lot of
BZFlag.
So yeah, simulations are cool, Evince makes them cooler. Lots of things, non of them interesting and BZFlag.
Oh, and Grahame Bowland, the man who wrote the `acpi` program,
this PyGTK tftp server and also sounds like an absolute twat on
LugRadio, wrote
this applet the other day. He had to bug me a lot, but he got there in the end. If you're too lazy to work out what it does, it's a Debian/Ubuntu based applet for setting a network location. It uses /etc/network/interfaces
mapping directives, and uses gamin to monitor for ifstate changes, so that it still works when you use ifup and ifdown from the command line. It doesn't yet allow you to select a specific wireless network (unless you've defined it in your mapping), but it does offer you a list of PPP connections you can dial, which allows you to put your VPNs in there. Pretty K-RAD! If you can't set it up, talk to him.
Oh, and [someone]
*, who is not a toolchain hacker (thus defying the logic of one
Paul Russell) appears to be currently getting the babes. Apparently those use cases involving
Alice and her Instant Messenger are pretty spot on. He's not even living in a college.
Also, saw the second half of
The Incredibles today in UniSFA. Now I just have to see the first half.
* name censored so I can blackmail him later
