Wewt
Rhymes with newt.
Tried to do a system update with openSuSE 10.2. Um. Big mistake. Hosed the entire system.
Thinkin' I'm gonna go with Ubuntu 7.04 this round.
Oh man did I forget how much I hate liveCDs.. am running one of Jeremy's Ubuntu 6.06 discs (didn't see my wireless, wtf!) and the lag is almost like using VNC from Sterling Heights to Chicago. Sucks balls.
KRAKOOOM
Been talking with Kevin for the past few hours. A range of topics. Initially I said something to him over AIM that piqued his interest and so he tried to get me to talk about it. The conversation quickly turned to him and his female situation, which is no problem at all. I'd like to go back to being the one that people go to instead of being the one that goes to others. He's mostly confused at the situation at hand... doesn't wanna miss any opportunities, but at the same time doesn't feel that anything CAN be done with only three weeks of school left.
There was some NICE lightning and thunder during said conversation. <3 thunderstorms
Finally got ndiswrapper + wireless card working. Now I just need to get the kernel module loaded at boot and all will be fine. Speeds are drastically greater than the wired network here. I tend to get anywhere from 8% to 34% signal strength, but have yet to get dropped (unlike in Windows, where I would lose connection every five minutes).
Got Corey running Ubuntu 6.06 (using one of Jeremy's many CDs that he ordered from Canonical). He downloaded and burned 7.04 and installed it himself. They grow up so fast! ::sniff:: Automatix is a really nice little program that installs practically everything (ex. mp3 and dvd support and even the flash player) that should come with Ubuntu (some of the... less-caring distros out there will bundle that kind of stuff, it's kinda sad that all of them can't though). Will remember it when I try to convert others. I was surprised that Ubuntu recognized Corey's wireless card on the first go. Has Linux wifi support really progressed that much? 7.04 even allows him to set up wireless profiles. Crazy.
Automatix had an option to install Exaile, an Amarok like media player designed for Gnome. It certainly looks a lot better than Amarok (ie. matches the theme). It's still in beta, however, and doesn't work with my mp3 player quite like I'd want it to. It's also a little problematic that my mp3 player mounts as two drives, but dragging and dropping onto the thing via the file manager has been my preferred method anyway.
Talking with Kevin has kinda quelled a few things I had running through my mind... but has brought up a few other things (normal things, these ones)...
Three short weeks. Can't wait to go home. Don't want to leave Chicago.
Ergh!
And she's all for it!
Ahh the gigabytes!
Cutting down on how much harddrive space I use is really easy when the realization that I have a 120GB harddrive sitting in a broken PS2 hits me.
Moved my games to a 100gb partition on the main drive (if the main drive fails, i don't care if it takes out the operating system and the games, they're reinstallabe)
The empty 120GB may end up just being backup. Which is perfectly fine with me. I really do not forsee needing that much extra space. Especially since I just knocked the 250GB drive's usage down from 80% to 62% (and counting).
Having three harddrives in AndrAIa amuses me. 160+250+120=530. Plus 80 external. 1 on mp3 player. 1 on miniSD card (used in mp3 player for a total of 2 :-D). Half on USB.
612.5GB of storage is available to me.
Granted, it's through the usage of several devices. Jason, on the other hand, can just pop in his two 250GB drives and be right on my tail. I dunno what his other drives are, however.
I need to rework the partition tables on the 160GB. So screwed up. Other than that, my mounting scheme is pretty wacked too :-P
/ = hda6 (harddrive a, partition 6)
/home = hdb1
/home/satoshi/Games = hda2
/home/satoshi/dunno = hdd1
swap = hda5
And there's a free 9GB that is nowhere near any other partition on hda, so it's staying unpartition for the time being.
Toldya my partition tables were messed up.
fstab is fun
I think my monitor is dying
It's all blurryish in the upper half. I can SEE the little bar that goes down the screen (you know how, on TV, you'll see a dark bar go down the screen of a CRT computer monitor because the refresh rates aren't synchronized? yeah, I can see that on my monitor with my eyes). It's ghosting. I can see these crazy magnetic field lines on either side of the screen. I would like one of those crazy TV/DVI LCD monitors. Alas, I am but a poor college student.
I was amending a private post of mine when I found myself writing "I would not trade Chicago for anything." And, really, it is true. I love it out here. The people are amazing (though sometimes very VERY confusing). The environment is new, yet at the same time similar and comforting. And I have fun out here. There's always something to do. I enjoy it. I've left a lot behind (things desirable, and things... not so desirable. though I find myself missing those not so desirable things sometimes, ya know?), but I've gained a lot too. I've learned a lot. I've done a lot. I've changed, too. I think. Driving home for Christmas break... I asked myself if I had changed enough that people back home would be able to tell. Would they be able to pick up on the little things? Would the little things be too much for them? Would situations that would normally be.. normal, become awkward? Would I say or do something that would be commonplace in Chicago, but be... wrong(?) back home?
I think there's a Chicago-Tony and a Sterling Heights-Tony. And, while Chicago-Tony may have played around in Sterling Heights-Tony's behavior-space, I think Sterling Heights-Tony is still intact.
I've certainly become more talkative. And louder. And I swear more. A helluva lot more. I found myself tripping and censoring myself back home. A lot. Depending on company present. Surprisingly... I find I can be me here in Chicago more often than at home. At home, I have a set role or position for various people, I think. I find that people come to me with their problems. Their secrets. Some more than others. Some a LOT more than others. I don't mind. I like helping my friends and being there for them. It's comforting to know that I can be counted on. Here.. Problems arise. Social situations. Personal things, sometimes. And it seems that these things are easily shared. I share a lot about home with people here. I've said things freely here. Things I would not say back home. Things about people back home. Because there would be no consequences here? I've shared things I've only told to Jason or Heather (possibly the two people I trust the most).
Our group here was really kind of thrown together. It started on our floor. Most of the guys. We live on the same floor. Third East. And then there are the girls. Most of them live on Second Lewis. We have a few straglers (double g?) from Second Middle SSV, Third Middle SSV and Fourth East. I forget exactly what the initial link between the two floors was, and how the SSV kids joined us, but we've become a nice little group of friends. It's really neat. I enjoy hanging out with them. It's fun. It's funny. It's embarassing. It's learning. It's disfunctional at times. It's just right. I have my friends back in Metro-Detroit. I have my friends in Chicago. The two groups will probably never intersect. I think they're just too different. But they're just right. I would never pick one over the other. It feels as if we've known eachother for a long time here. It's barely been a semester. There's seven more semesters to go. I'm excited.
It's like the theatre. We're a sort of make-shift family at the theatre. We all know eachother. We all know eachothers' drama. We know things we shouldn't, about fellow employees (higher in authority or not). Some things never leave the theatre. And just as with the Chicago group and the Detroit group, the (AMC) Forum (30) group could never replace or be replaced.
And Linda has really been confusing me the past few days. Usually I attribute close, physical contact with something more than friendship. She "huggled" me at dinner last night (was it really last night? Just twelve and a half hours ago... I need sleep medication or something). Let's just say that that was new and confusing. And then there's the head-patting/rubbing. She used to do that a lot, before... before her and Jason. She stopped for a while. Then there was Christmas break. And now she's doing it again. A lot. I dunno how she and her group of friends in California show friendship, but it's most likely very different than how we did it back home. She keeps throwing things at me during dinner. And trying to tickle me. Did I ever tell her I hate being tickled? Why did I used to let her tickle me all the time?
Oh that's right.
Just a few things going through my head the past few days.
I've been sleeping without a pillow since maybe half way through break. My neck is THANKING me. A LOT.
Rainmeter says that it's currently 19 degrees Fahrenheit out and that we're supposed to get snow tomorrow and the day after. I demand below zero temperatures and feet of snow. That'll probably come in February, though. Damn delayed Winter. Global Warming, I will have your ass for this. Unless it snows in April again. That was just damn cool last year. Like half a foot of snow. In April. May showers bring April flowers? More like May showers bring April flurries. What the damn hell was I talking about? Lack of sleep tends to do that.
Yeah, that's all. I need sleep. But I probably won't. Went to bed at seven-thirty yesterday. I thought it was due to my nap from one to four fourty-five, Thursday afternoon. But it's currently seven fifty-four. Haven't napped yet.
I'm so glad I haven't classes on Friday. Monday classes start at one-fifty in the afternoon. I love my schedule. Night classes every night, but I'm awake for night classes. I think I won. Five classes, fourteen credit hours, Friday off.
See you next week!
It's been a while.
Where to start..? Um.. I beat Mario & Luigi (GBA) two nights ago. I had been stuck on the final boss for a few months now. I've had the game for over a year. It's a good game, 'twas quite rewarding to have finally beat the game after all this time.
I set myself two goals before this Saturday. 1) Ding level 90 in PSO so I can access Ultimate. 2) Ding level 30 in FFXI so I can do the Dark Knight and Beastmaster quests (those ones specifically, but really I can unlock most any advance job now). I hit level 90 in PSO with ease. However, I've had a harder time hitting 30 in FFXI. I am currently level 29 with less than half of the needed exp to go. SO CLOSE! I eventually gave up though, as there was no chance I was going to get an invite from any party in the area. And now I'll have to wait a whole week just to get roughly two-thousand experience points! Agh!!
I bought a copy of The Good Earth at Border's so I can do the second part of my summer assignment for Honors. This part's due on the fifth. I won't be back until the sixth or the seventh. Whatever. Ms. Szmiegil can't honestly expect people to be doing these assignments and turn them all in on time. It's the freaking summer. We're going to procrastinate, we're going to turn them in late. We're not going to give a shit.
AndrAIa's been acting up a bit as of late. I can't run installshield installation programs anymore. At least, not on my user. I can do so just fine from the administrator account. o_O Things seem a bit slower overall, and blackbox hangs on shutdown. As far as I can tell, however, this only happens when I play FFXI on my computer. After I force-close blackbox, I have to force-close PlayOnline (after I already closed it before hand). This abnormal behavior of POL and FFXI can be attributed to the windower I use. FFXI doesn't natively allow one to play in windowed mode, so I downloaded a program (recommended by Tim) that allows me to play with FFXI in a window so I can still chat on AIM or look stuff up. Funny thing is, the windower causes no problems on Brian's machine. o_O
I think I may have to wipe AndrAIa clean... I'm not looking forward to that... All the backup... At least I have another partition to put things on AND my external harddrive (which still has >50% disk space free). I've been kinda worried about her lately, though. You know how during the summer, temperatures rise? Well, it's not uncommon to see her running at 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Infact, the only time I've seen her running lower is when I had the air conditioning on in our room piping cool air into the office when it was already somewhat cool out. Mom said to turn off the air conditioner, though, as it was apparently "too cold" outside for it to be running. I saw AndrAIa's temperature readout shoot from 108 to 120. :cry::cry:
I've been getting about one shift a week at work. Last summer I was averaging two or three shifts a week. But now, all the shifts are g oing to the newbies (understandable, i guess) as well as the rehires. People are getting rehired at their old wage, in their old position, and getting MORE HOURS than I'm getting! WTF ::kicks a wall::
Oh. I'm going on vacation tomorrow. Mackinac Island. Going with Dad, Pia, Brian, David, and Ali (how DO you spell her name?). A week. Away from home. Usually I look forward to vacations... But right now... not so much... I dunno why. There's nothing really.. going on around here. Heh, unlike last time we went up north. The whole Jason-Heather thing... Whoo, glad that's over with.
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Anyway..
I wanna get back on FFXI to see if there are any parties willing to accept a lvl 29WAR/MNK in lvl 17WAR gear for just one more level, but I feel as if my endeavor would just be in vain.
I've started playing Final Fantasy 2 on the GBA compilation Final Fantasy Dawn of Souls and it's pretty cool. I wanna bring the PS2 up with us so I can play Final Fantasy 4, but I seem to have left ALL PS2 discs at Mom's. (FFXI doesn't require any discs, harddrive for the win). Oh well... Brian seems to recall them having a TV last time we were there... Maybe we could bring the PS2 to watch some DVDs or something. I dunno. I also wanna play Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, but there's only two saves on the cartdridge and they're both taken by Brian and David. David just started playing the game again after I kept bothering him about not playing it... I doubt we'll have time to hit up an EBGames or something on the way Up North. (And I seriously doubt any of the local ones will be open at 9AM, when we leave)
I'm don't have a Final Fantasy fetish, I swear.
Shelby's birthday party was last Saturday. It was pretty cool. I didn't go swimming, though I brought all the required gear. Near the end of the night, most everyone partook in a game of Apples to Apples. It was quite fun. Basically a card is pulled from the green card stack and layed down in a place where everyone can see it. Then, everyone else (everyone but the person who layed the green card) looks at their hand of red cards and tries to find a card that most fits the description on the green card. The person who layed the green card then flips over all the red cards and chooses the one they agree with most. They then give the green card to the person that layed the winning red card. Next person in line lays a green card. Rinse and repeat. To spice things up, there were cards that had people (people at the party) and descriptions or phrases that described them. Most were red, some were green. o_O
It seems I kept to myself most of the night until Catherine showed up. We mostly talked geek/nerd stuff <_<
Well, I'm out, gotta shower and pack for tomorrow...