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Time it took me to break Knoppix: approximately 14 hours. Weirdest brokenness I've caused in a computer, too. Seemed to be having some amazingly bizarre issues with the caps lock key. I feel like, since I'm stuck with this until the end of the year, I should at least learn Linux properly... (but it's so easy to just be lazy and use Knoppix like Windows!) I've determined that, until I can play the version of Tetris on here, I cannot possibly claim to know anything about the OS. This would seem simple... except there is a trick to this Tetris I haven't figured out, in that you can't use the arrow keys, nor can I summon the help file, and thus I remain Linux illiterate. I kind of miss being able to have settings that are, you know, permanent... which is more the fault of running the OS from a CD than anything.
Somehow, I've been getting far, far better download speeds on here than usual. I don't know whether it's some sort of network preference against people running Windows, or... what. Not going to complain, though, because I've been able to get things in about ten minutes that used to take half an hour.
I finished a slight outline for my Modern Fiction final paper today... looks like I'm going to be spending quite a bit of time going over Cane and pulling out references to dusk, but with luck it'll be a decent enough paper. That class is almost certainly going to be my lowest grade this quarter, but as long as I don't kill the paper entirely, I should have about a B in there. That's just... wow. This is honestly the first quarter in forever that I haven't been terrified of getting a C in. Nevermind that I'm aiming for a 3.5 in my classes right now and can quite easily still fall quite short of that, at least I'm sitting in a decent spot. I should really put some thought into my Shakespeare paper sometime tonight. I'm not sure if I want to write on King Lear or the Tempest... And I haven't the slightest what I'm doing for my film paper. I should probably stop ignoring that class.
Oh, and in honour of getting some work done and not having to slave away in the computer labs and, most of all, persisiting at finding a way to boot my computer so I wouldn't have to borrow Skirtpants' laptop, I indulged myself in the other thing I was holding off on. Even if it eats my time... I missed it, goshdarnit, so there. Hopefully they'll take me back.
Somehow, I've been getting far, far better download speeds on here than usual. I don't know whether it's some sort of network preference against people running Windows, or... what. Not going to complain, though, because I've been able to get things in about ten minutes that used to take half an hour.
I finished a slight outline for my Modern Fiction final paper today... looks like I'm going to be spending quite a bit of time going over Cane and pulling out references to dusk, but with luck it'll be a decent enough paper. That class is almost certainly going to be my lowest grade this quarter, but as long as I don't kill the paper entirely, I should have about a B in there. That's just... wow. This is honestly the first quarter in forever that I haven't been terrified of getting a C in. Nevermind that I'm aiming for a 3.5 in my classes right now and can quite easily still fall quite short of that, at least I'm sitting in a decent spot. I should really put some thought into my Shakespeare paper sometime tonight. I'm not sure if I want to write on King Lear or the Tempest... And I haven't the slightest what I'm doing for my film paper. I should probably stop ignoring that class.
Oh, and in honour of getting some work done and not having to slave away in the computer labs and, most of all, persisiting at finding a way to boot my computer so I wouldn't have to borrow Skirtpants' laptop, I indulged myself in the other thing I was holding off on. Even if it eats my time... I missed it, goshdarnit, so there. Hopefully they'll take me back.
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