Summer 2012 Projects II

Welcome to part two of the post about my summer projects! Odds are the only person who will read this is me from the future, so hello to future me. If you’re not me, you are probably going to be bored. Just so you know.

Post-summer stuff

  • Automatic backup - NAS?

        I got my mom an NAS so we could share files with each other, backup to it, stream media to various things, etc. We haven’t really gotten into the optimal usage of it, but it’s been useful for me. I’ve offloaded all my music and other media to it, and just go without when I’m away from home. I’m sure I could access the files elsewhere, but surely that would require uploading from our home network? Which is a hard sell with limited bandwidth. Also, around Christmas I got us a one year CrashPlan+ account for offsite backup (on sale 94% off!), which makes the NAS slightly less important. Nothing set up at dad’s yet, though.

  • Website - matthewdarling.com
    • Make a professional CV

        As of January 2013, matthewdarling.com exists by leeching off of Vael’s web hosting. Yay! As for the CV… I… really need to do that, and I intend to do it before the end of reading week.

  • Home Theatre PC (henceforth HTPC)

        I initially gave up on this one, because I decided it wasn’t worth spending my own money on. It also wasn’t a whole lot of fun to mess with because there seemed to be so much work involved, even though it’s simple in theory. However, as of 2013, I’m very close to having a system set up on a Raspberry Pi at my dad’s house…

Stuff I gave up on

  • COMP 2004 Assignment 4

        I didn’t do the last assignment for my C++ class, because I was just noticing I had RSI when it reached an intensity that has thankfully not been the norm. I knew there was no way I could type enough code to finish the assignment, which was fine because our grade was based on our best three assignments. I just studied the material in theory rather than in practice. Thankfully, I did fairly well on the final exam.

        Fun fact: I’ve never typed any templated C++ code, but I have written it in pencil for the final exam. Anyway, I wanted to go back and do it for my own benefit, but. Eh. Heavily OOP C++ code. Having to write eight constructors + destructors, yet another linked list class (this time with templates!), a display based on ncurses. Educational, sure, but incredibly tedious.

  • Install and test out Conkeror

        I cancelled this one because I couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out how to actually install and use Conkeror. I was obviously missing something important, somewhere, but after trying a few things and reading a few wiki pages I decided it wasn’t worth it. Still, an Emacs-esque browser that from my understanding supports my wacky Firefox extensions and userscripts and so on… Actually, I recently discovered it doesn’t support LastPass, which pretty much makes it a no-go for me. Ah well.

Stuff I didn’t touch

        I guarantee there’s a lot of similar software, but I thought it would be fun to make this. However, I’ve found an alternative solution that you’ll read about when this series is done!

        I still really want to do this, but a more robust home automation solution may be a better route to take.

  • Miranda IM - fix the Xfire plugin’s interaction with the Metacontacts plugin

        This seems to have resolved itself, or I’ve just found a way around the issue, but I was originally going to go into uber C++ debugging mode and write whatever patches I needed to get them to play nicely.

  • Set up the perfect home office

        If I had the money for this, and to do it at both of my parents’ houses…

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