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It's been awhile since I made any updates to this website. It's also been awhile since anything interesting has happened in my reasearch. My interest in Progranism research goes up and down, so that's why not a lot happens. In any case I'll make a quick update as to what's happening.
First off, I had a nice machine to run tests on two months ago. But I can't use that machine for tests anymore so I had to build a new one. Well, not exactly new. I built it from spare parts and it's actually worse than the machine I had. It's far weaker and so it doesn't work as well as I would like. I had some theories I would have liked to test, but this machine just isn't cutting it, so I'm making do with what I have.
I've made some updates to the Progranism source code and made a few management tools. I'll be limiting population on the machine to 400 progranisms. The management tool starts killing off programs if it goes above 400. The tools also allow me to freeze all the progranisms and copy down the process list. That way I can clean up the progranism folder and restart everything as it was before. Far less impact on evolution I hope.
Once all my tools are done everything will be automated for me so I can just sit back and let the machine run 24/7. This will be a big leap and will hopefully lead to some cool stuff.
In just a few moments I'll be adding an area to this site where you can download the source code. As always, this site is under construction.

I have some good news today. I finally got around to setting up a virtual machine with Windows XP on it. What does that mean? It means I can start running Progranism experiments again.
Here's the latest from the tests. I've realized that these things have gotten way out of hand. I ran 29 of them, some of which crashed immediately, so it was more like 15. I only let them run for maybe 3 or 4 minutes. When the machine finished rebooting I checked the Progranism folder and found 3000 files! 38 of the original Progranisms were deleted as well.
I decided to run just one Progranism and see how fast I grew. It only took one or two minutes for it to make 600 new files. Pretty impressive, and dangerous at the same time.
Well, I'm going to keep testing these. I'll keep you updated with the progress.

It's friday (where I live) and I've just uploaded Week 6 of Progranism Security Weekly.
Nothing big and fancy, but I've got finals coming up, so what do you expect?

Anyway, have a nice week!

Week 5 of Progranism Security Weekly is now uploaded.
I've been busy working on other websites, that's why this week was a bit late (Thursday Night for me). Sorry.

Have a nice week!

I've uploaded Progranism Security Week 4. Go check it out by clicking the security link on the left.
I also changed some of the code for the security page to make it work better under non-firefox browsers.

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I've been working on the security section some more. I finally got the comments working. I think they're done, for now, but I'll need to test them out more. I haven't done Week 3 and 4 yet, but I'll try to get those done tomarrow.
Enjoy!

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Yay! I'm back to working on my site. I worked on the security section a bit. I have Week 1 and Week 2 up. I was too busy last week to do Week 3, so I'll do that this week and Week 4. Things aren't finished though. I still need to code a comment system. Oh well, at least I'm slowing getting things done.

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It's been awhile, but I've finally done some more changes to the site. I spent a lot of time making the new graphics, trying to get the sidebars right. I think it all looks pretty good. Much better than before.
Now, as soon as I finalize this design I can go on to actually making the site, adding all the pages, content, php scripts, etc... That'll probably be fun. I just hope I don't have to change the design again after, because I'm doing this whole site by hand. The only software I use to edit the site is SciTE. Oh, and I use Gimp for the images, in case anyone wants to know. Gimp is a nice program. I don't think it has much support for basic shapes, but with its other functionality you can usually make those shapes anyway. Like circles and stuff.
Well I hope everyone else likes the new design.

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Well it just keeps getting better doesn't it?
I've done a lot of style changes to this WIP. Nice header gradients for this and those pesky sidebars. Tweaks here and there. Added some more style classes, removed useless things, cleaned up my workspace, added some padding, and other things.
The newest features are these new icons. Aren't they neat? I have three different ones! Yep, I'm rock and/or rolling now.
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So let me explain this site. This is all a WIP (Work In Progress), but soon it will become a cool site...hopefully. I won't say what all is going to be here...in fact this probably the end of the message. Not much of an explaination ;).

Wait, better put some links in here, because links are uber.
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