http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/nettlogg.woa/wa/logg?logg=3221 Some kind of FAQ or FGA for my ext2 (second extended) stay in Norway. I am enrolled as a student of the Network and System Administration (NSA) program, which is done in cooperation between the University of Antwerp, University of Oslo and Høgskolen i Oslo. http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/nettlogg.woa/wa/melding?id=32475&logg=3221 This blog is discontinued for the moment since I am maintaining my Master Thesis Blog. 2006-02-16T09:02:55Z http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/nettlogg.woa/wa/melding?id=19870&logg=3221 This semester was rather full of surprises. While planning to take like 5 to 6 lectures (not all directly IT-related), I got a job at Opera Software. So I am just hanging on to get the 3 mandatory ones right. These include: a) INF5090: kewl geeky lecture about hot topics in distributed systems. Been taking interactive lecture notes with Kyrre Begnum, our great PhD student and IDS/Firewall foreleser. SubEthaEdit is a great program ... b) Liteature survey: basically an introduction into scientifi 2005-02-28T23:37:57Z http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/nettlogg.woa/wa/melding?id=16853&logg=3221 two weeks to go for the first exam ... c++. last mandatory exercise due on tuesday. catching up with the ids & fw exercises, just 3 to go. should finish them asap. last but not least: i should finally start reading the kompendium 51, basis for the algo and efficiency course!!! 2004-11-20T18:47:51Z http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/nettlogg.woa/wa/melding?id=16612&logg=3221 well at least I do know now what happens if one fails the mid-term - we got one week to correct our mistakes, and re-submit. interestingly, allmost all master-students failed, where the bachelor students passed. one possible interpretation is the academic background. looks like uio offers better pre-courses that other institutions (most master students did not get their bachelor from uio). but after a little intensified study the understanding is much better, so i expect to pass this time ha ha 2004-11-11T11:03:42Z http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/nettlogg.woa/wa/melding?id=16569&logg=3221 We got the results from the FW & IDS lecture midterm/obligatory exercise. Remember Murphy? So I got punished for "working together" my results with my palooka-partner!! Ha ha big joke he did not contribute with anything useful!!! I do mentally understand the decision, but it's kinda hard to loose the chance of getting an A because of this! Well. Swallow hard and go on. 2004-11-10T11:46:12Z http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/nettlogg.woa/wa/melding?id=16390&logg=3221 So in tha past 3 weeks we had some mid-terms. The gutt-feeling is OK, but I am curious how it went. It is just as pass/fail thing, even though I don't know what happens if someone fails. We are proceeding in all lectures according to plan, and the exams will be almost over in about a month. My exam dates: December 3rd: C++ December 8th: Algorithms and Efficiency December 9th: Intrusion Detection & Firewall And on December 9th I take the flight back to Switzerland ... for a well-deserved ski v 2004-11-04T15:32:40Z http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/nettlogg.woa/wa/melding?id=15533&logg=3221 The known Swiss newspaper NZZ publishes once a year a special magazine on students/academic life. This year's edition has an article with the above mentioned topic - a 20-question-catalog that was asked academic people. Will you know all answers? Congratulations if you do! 2004-10-07T13:22:36Z http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/nettlogg.woa/wa/melding?id=15656&logg=3221 You know of these days - everything just goes wrong. Yesterday was such a day for me - it was almost humorous, tought, because of so many coincidences at once. First, I needed to deliver a C++ program. It compiled fine, on my machine (OS X) and a linux server, but exited unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. I was searching for the problem until 4am - no idea. Upon delivering the program, the professor looked into it for 1.5hrs, but was unable to find the problem either. At the end, just movi 2004-10-07T07:34:00Z http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/nettlogg.woa/wa/melding?id=15337&logg=3221 the inf4200 lecture really is a hard one - i guess it's the most theoretical lecture i have ever attended. yesterday at the exercise-session, we (partially?) solved 2 problems in 2 hrs ... and the attending studentes were not all sure if we really understood what we were doing. right now we try to transform problems form Turing-Machine-Notation into Satisfiabiliy clauses, with 3SAT and 3DM coming up on the horizon ... 2004-10-01T09:17:27Z http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/nettlogg.woa/wa/melding?id=15068&logg=3221 we have to take 30 ECTS credits per semester, and one course has to be at uio. due to my previous academic education, i am exempted from courses LV121A (computer security) and MS005A (networking: technologies and principles). i take INF4200 (algorithms and efficiency), MS004A (intrusion detection and firewall security) and LV121A (C++ programming). 2004-09-21T17:42:23Z http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/nettlogg.woa/wa/melding?id=15025&logg=3221 i will publish some toughts on my academic activities, and not so much on personal stuff. my personal weblog is also online. 2004-08-23T06:00:00Z