Again a short night, pretty sleepy today. The Minix programming goes slow (because of that I think). Doing some NT install stuff also.

Jerry and Marjolein were here tonight, it was really nice. Burned the rice. Played again Carcassone. The ex-king of Bulgaria will have 120 of the 240 representatives in parlement. It's good he doesn't have a complete majority, more healthy to rule together with another party I think. At work I made Makefiles again, one of them for compiling the JSP part.

today we went to the Bulgarian embassy; Alex voted in the Bulgarian election. Let's see what will happen: will the king win? How big would be the democrat's defeat? The first results will come in a few hours.

Also we saw Tibi & Janneke, it was very nice. Played Carcassone. The bus connection between their house and hours is really good.

We just came back from Almere, played a lot of games. I learned Union Pacific (a bit boring) and 2 children games: Isis & Osiris and De Beer Is Los. This last one is really nice :) Oh, I also played Atilla; it was nice but I think it's unnecessary complicated. Tomorrow evening we'll see Tibor & Janneke; hope to explain them Carcassone. When we went home it was pouring with rain; took a bus therefore. By the way, if you ever go to Almere, be sure to know which trainstop is yours :)

As expected, the dinner with Ettie & Gerben was really nice; very cosy. they've been together for 4 years, that's why there's a party. We were 10 people together, with Marcel & Esther (Gerben's brother & sister) and "all" the parents. Next year again! We missed the train for one minute, had to wait an hour but we went to get some beer, and that was really nice too. Tomorrow Kolonisten in Almere.

Well well, quite a trip. Went to Middenmeer today, as always a long and heavy trip to the country-side :) Alex & I went to get a haircut there. We were 20 minutes late, but thanks to the friendly hairdresser we are now ready for a nice dinner with Ettie & Gerben.

Didn't quite fix the minix-network card problem yet; but the good news is that the target PC recognizes the card (a 386 with 4MB). Would be cool to run Minix on that little one :) I had to fix some jumpers for the harddisk I wanted to use, and I found out it still had Windows 95 on it. So I booted... and yes, it worked! Never expected that a machine with 4 MB would be able to startup Win95. After I installed the CD-ROM (and found a win95 cd somewhere) I'd be able to install the network card and thus: Terminal Services Client! Oh -- that rulez, so hard :)

Spent a few hours last night trying to get Minix to recognize one of my network cards. The NE2000 now works; that is: it recognizes the Ethernet address. Now the network protocol part. Somebody wrote in a newsgroup that if the F5 network dumps give all zeros (like my machine does), a wrong IRQ is a likely cause. Let's see.

Made a nice script today to have both the kernel and memory manager's output in a file. So most of the debug stuff is ready; I can start implementing the memory compacting algoritm. Looking forward to that.

With this new thing, Blogger, I will keep the interested visitor updated about the things I'm doing. Today I'm working for my practical work Operating Systems; adding some functionality to Minix. I'm optimizing a debug system call, which dumps the memory managers' impression about the memory in use & free to the screen.