7 months.

I have not updated my geek blog in 7 months. So whats been happening?
I finally finished my thesis titled "Hardware Acceleration of the x264 H264 Encoder". I ported the x264 encoder to run on a reconfigurable platform (FPGA). I had to determine which parts of the code took up the most CPU cycles, and then replace those parts with calls to the FPGA. The calls to the FPGA were by means of the MOLEN computing paradigm which is part of the Delft WorkBench Toolchain, (A set of tools for preparing applications for running on FPGA's). I ended up getting speeddown instead of speedup because the calls to the FPGA were done using by means of OS calls. Running the application without OS calls did get speedup. Unfortunately, I had issues with the tools and ish, so I ended up with a grade 7/10... *sigh...no distinction, but at least I am done.
I played around with ruby on rails, using InstantRails, got bored, now I am delving into the cracking world using SoftICE...using this tutorial.
I guess I will still play around with this some more before I start my new job.
Later!