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I presented my final seminar for Honours today, I think it went ok. I spoke for about 22mins, including questions which was a bit long, but hey…

Ings had a look at my slides for me, which pleased me somewhat, as Barry has been out of town for too long…

Ok, so I’m really ticked off. I was all geared to submit my Honours paper to CISSE 2007, but have discovered that due to VMware’s licencing restrictions, I cannot. I’ve worked far to hard on this paper, and feel really deflated, but what happens, happens. I wonder if Nick’s paper will be accepted…

Ok, so I really struggled to get VIX working with perl on Windows, but have finally sorted it out. First of all, its NOT installed by default. Only the C bindings are. So I had to go compile it. That worked ok., but then it still didn’t work. So I had to do this:

• Add the vix_perl directory to the system path.
• Create a perl.exe.manifest file in perl/bin which contains version information about the C libraries needed.

(See: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=100057&tstart=0)

Well, today is the start of SATNAC and Barry is there presenting his paper (technically, Nick, Blake and I had a hand in it as well). I’ll try get a PDF of it from him to put here… In the interim, I’m in a bad mood as my testing isn’t going really well and whilst I had planned on having all week, I now only have a few days.

Actual deployment seems to be going ok, but I’m sure I’ll encounter problems soon enough… In the interim, time for lunch.

Wow, I’m amazed that I actually finished my Lit Review. It was supposed to be done by the end of last semester, but Barry said that I should take my time and do it to my satisfaction. I think I’m satisfied . It was a bit difficult getting back into it after having been in Europe for some time…