As seen [here][1], I received my grades a couple weeks ago and I am done with undergrad now (I passed). Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. Sounds quite cool, eh? 😉 Now…student loans.. >=| [1]: http://blog.jolexa.net/2009/05/12/undergrad-is-done-w00t/
Well…I started “contributing” (read: investing) to a Peer-2-Peer (P2P) lending service, called LendingClub. Lending Club is an interesting little operation that sets up borrowers with a group of lenders. I am doing this for two reasons: 1) The “average return” is 9.05% – this is better than my retirement portfolio in the past short-term (in other words, more diversification) & 2) it gives me the warm fuzzies to know that I am directly helping someone achieve specific goals.
This is a follow up to my initial linode post. Linode is a VPS provider. Linode stands for “Linux Node.” They offer relatively up to date initial Gentoo installations, among other distros. Overall Grade: 9.5⁄10 (because no one is ever perfect) Performance: This is probably the one area that everyone is concerned about from VPS providers. Linode provides linodes on pretty beefy hardware, 4 CPUs/host: %% cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep "model name"<br /> model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5420 @ 2.50GHz With the Linode 360 plan, there are 40 guests on [each host][3].
I finished my last final of undergrad last night. More to come on this after I receive my grades.
Today marks the [1 year anniversary][1] of joining the Gentoo developer community. Quickly, a few things stand out: 3954 commits Mentored 2 new recruits. Christian, hacking on the Sunrise project and portage tools. Mounir, promptly shaped up the voip herd of packages and joined the ppc team. [1]: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/msg_90c8271e1c69ce3e478bfcc057fb6fc9.xml