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So my posts fizzled a bit but I am continuing to model local buildings. About one every day or two even if they are a little rough. I figured I would start with the largest buildings in Marlton first and then branch outwards. I think it is easier to constrain oneself to an area so [...]

They have had me on after burners so long at work I often cannot remember simple things when asked. That being said we are hiring. And I am seeing to it personally that I get decent help. If you think you have the right stuff for cutting edge aerospace software engineering (CS or CompE) bring [...]

Congratulations are in order to the Ben Franklin Racing Team for being selected to go to the qualifying round (and beyond) for the DARPA Urban Challenge in October. This thing was put together in a year and it seams safe enough to drive itself effectively now and at relatively high speeds. It can distinguish lanes [...]

Many, many bugs can be found through static analysis, however, the present state of analysis tools is pretty poor. Often we have two options. Either we shut off many of the warnings or we add so much verbosity to the code that readability suffers. The verbosity is ok when you are working small projects but [...]

Every once in a while a post does not get picked up by feed readers. I don’t understand why but I am hoping this will flush the last post through.

I really should have posted on this sooner. Work is participating in the DARPA Urban Challenge together with UPenn and Lehigh, my alma mater, as part of the Ben Franklin Racing Team. It makes me very sad I could not participate but I will just have to live vicariously for the moment. I understand our [...]

This is a one-liner to “alarm” if the disk usage of a filesystem has exceeded a certain threshold. I put the directory to monitor as “~” (home) and the threshold as 40%.

test `df -h ~ | grep -o ‘[0-9]*%’ | grep -o ‘[0-9]*’` -ge 40 && echo high

Large break-away brick wall, Pegasus statue, and Pierce Brosnan not included. I’m sure you could rig it for theme song though. Tanks-a-lot has been around for a while I think. I seem to vaguely remember them being some sort of scandal when a criminal had bought one of their tanks and was wreaking havoc years [...]

I have been following the Sketchup Buildings Blog for a little while now and I can’t help but notice that almost every day a new model of a building in Kabul is modeled. I can’t find a site for this development and I am not sure the motivation but it seems to be related to [...]