There are still a few glitches to be worked out. I discovered a few virii that were lingering on the system from the previous owner, which I’ve made an attempt to clean. Also, it appears that the power from the wall socket into which every part of the machine is plugged flickers sometimes. The old system would just sort of gloss over those mini-outages like a car leaping a ditch; it rocked the shocks, but everything still worked. However, the new system is an Athlon, which melts itself if the heatsinks fail, and therefore has circuitry which cuts out all motherboard power the instant the fans lose power. So even though this machine is more inherently stable, it’s not all that much more stable to use. If I had a UPS, the problem would go away… but I can barely pay to live right now, let alone pay a few hundred dollars more for what amounts to convenience hardware.
As for the AI, as of the help session tonight, it tirns out that I’m one of the people farthest along. The TAs haven’t finished implementing this yet. As of right now, it works fine for very simple test cases, but en there is more than one operator, it goes into an infinate loop, and I don’t know why. We can probably still get a passing grade off it, if it’s still one of the most complete projects by the time we have to turn it in, but I’d really rather it worked as advertised.
I don’t know. For right now, I’m going to enjoy the luxury of sleeping until I happen to awake naturally.
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