April 14, 2005

I plan on releasing a new program soon that I've been working on as I 
take my Econometrics class.  It's a statisics program that runs in Java 
and looks a lot like a spreadsheet.  We were given Eviews, an 
econometrics package, to use with the class.  As soon as i saw my 
professor type in "ls y c x" to perform a least-squares curve fit, I 
knew I was NOT going to use Eviews.  The interface is a nightmare on top 
of that.  They used some ridiculous custom API in windows that makes 
everything look stupid.  I think it might be 100% Fortran.  

Anyway, my little program can perform least-squares fit, complete with 
graphing and generating new variables.  It runs completely in Java, and 
there is just about no error trapping, meaning a wrong step will bring 
down the program.  Pretty neat, otherwise.  

I finally brought up my HP 715 workstation to act as the gateway to my 
home network.  It had been down since I set up my new Freenet/print 
server in the basement.  Right now I have three machines running at 
home, none of which are primary computers.  Cool.  My current setup at 
home on the network are:

dream		Athlon XP 2000+ running Windows XP
copenhagen	Athlon XP 2000+ running Debian "Sarge"
kakadu		HP 715/100 running Debian "Sarge"
alwaysprepared	K6-2 450 running Debian "Sarge"
stockholm	Pentium 166 running Debian "Woody"
kensington	VAXstation 3100 M38 running NetBSD 2.0RC3

Only kakadu, kensington, and alwaysprepared are always running.  Others 
get shutdown regularly.  

Now the real question is what is my naming scheme?  Probably not, 
especially since they are not all of the same scheme.  

Adios,
Jeff
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