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Heh, so this quarter is killing me... in every aspect except for my grades (yay for trying and getting A's for once).

Yesterday I started my second project for SysProg and it's pretty much text manipulation in assembly.  Fun?  Hell yes... if you're a masochist.  Basically I sat down for 5 hours straight in the DSL lab and cranked out 300 lines of x86 assembly.  That includes the learning curve of a new language and figuring out how to make system calls properly and getting file I/O to work and determining how I am storing my data and such.

I don't really like the keyboards in the lab, or the way the computers are configured (old version of vim, zsh, and such) and this is a project that you're more or less forced to work on in the lab.  It's not all that bad, at least there are speakers for listening to tunes. Yeah, I am only 1/3 done with this project.  It's so worth it though.  I understand C and the x86 so much more now.   Also, GDB rocks my socks.