http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pete2791/route101/ Exploring the fundamentals of network routing. en-us 2004-10-10T16:27:56-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pete2791/route101/007319.html A lot of the students write their homework assignments on cheap, pulpy, absorbent notebook paper that is only a step up from toilet paper. I'm using my usual gel pen for grading, and it soaks right through the worst of... TA pete2791 2004-10-10T16:27:56-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pete2791/route101/004569.html We've launched our second attempt to chase the cisco URP. This one is a significant improvement over the previous try. Unfortunately the process doesn't provide much detailed feedback. In fact, there is none: just a letter that says, gosh, thanks... Funding pete2791 2004-08-26T20:24:51-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pete2791/route101/004426.html Dr. Barry was kind and nimble enough to work around an error I made in the application process. I requested a class based on the title, without checking the course content. It turned out to be material that I know... Thanks pete2791 2004-08-22T21:56:55-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pete2791/route101/004410.html While I was out with the sinus implosion, I was thoroughly out, and slept most of the time, so I lost about half a week on my WPE study program. I'm back in the saddle now, and have new reading... Milestones pete2791 2004-08-22T12:37:01-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pete2791/route101/004408.html That was interesting. I fiddled with a couple of the blog parameters for Route 101, and accidentally changed the language for date display to Swedish. `augusti?' Does that mean I have to start writing the entires in Swedish as well?... Housekeeping pete2791 2004-08-22T11:41:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pete2791/route101/004406.html Lost a few days to a throat/sinus implosion. I have no idea what hit me, but it was nasty. Now I'm functioning again. On a whim, I googled for `sinus implosion' and discovered that such a thing can actually happen.... Housekeeping pete2791 2004-08-22T11:27:37-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pete2791/route101/004181.html Still trying to figure out what happened with the cisco URP. Apparently the line about `many excellent proposals' from the flush letter was not mere boilerplate: they funded about 10% of them. So we're in the wrong 90%, but we... Funding pete2791 2004-08-13T17:53:42-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pete2791/route101/004180.html Earlier this week I picked up my copy of the textbook for CSci2011 from the department office (thanks, Liz). I've paged through the book, the sixth edition of `Discrete Mathematics' by Johnsonbaugh, and it looks like a decent enough text... TA pete2791 2004-08-13T17:19:22-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pete2791/route101/003988.html I've been assigned to TA CSci2011 on Discrete Structures. This is great news---I'm in good control of the material, it's an interesting subject, and it's taught by Carl Sturtivant. The only way it could have been better is if it... TA pete2791 2004-08-08T12:25:51-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pete2791/route101/003853.html Finally got the home page in decent shape. Not everything it links to makes sense, but the basic homepage information is there.... Housekeeping pete2791 2004-08-03T23:30:44-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pete2791/route101/003851.html cisco turned down our URP proposal. Since I'm the guy with the cisco contacts, I'm hunting them up to figure out how to make it work better next time. There's another deadline coming up on 24 August, so we can... Funding pete2791 2004-08-03T22:56:51-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pete2791/route101/002990.html Herewith, a journal of what I hope will be a growing understanding of routing in data communication networks. I'll spend some words over the next few entries to explain in more detail what I have in mind for the journal.... Housekeeping pete2791 2004-07-13T20:47:04-06:00