Cool day. I previously had
partitioned my
HD into 30
gigs for
Windows and 10 for
SuSe but decided I wanted to try another
distro with less HD space. Wouldn't you know it, I lost the disk with the
FIPS info for restoring my old settings. Thus I have to delete both partitions and make new ones. Yay. So I spent yesterday burning
CD's with archived email, IRC
logs, installation programs, updated
drivers, contacts, movies,
anime,
source code,
Quake maps and
mods, text files, essays, webpages etc. To save
CD-R's and make things overall quicker, I uploaded 4.3gigs of
MP3's and various other stuff to Chris over the
network.
Finally the hour arrives.
It's pretty scary deleting your
primary partition.
Very, very insecure feeling. Mind racing and scrambling trying to remember that one thing you forgot to
backup. Wondering, "should I have
scandisked the HD in case of some well-placed
bad sectors?" "Am I
sure that I want to do this?"
Windows98 SE install goes well. While it was copying the files I read my
Bible some more. Finished
Matthew, it was okay, it was all about the life of Jesus. Good summary about what
Christianity is
supposed to mean. I skipped ahead to
Revelations and got a good ways into it. After rebooting computer, I noticed in the bottom of my drawer a CD was snapped in half. Yay. Not too bad, it's only my
Voodoo3 drivers. Oh well, I can download newer ones anyway.
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Wouldn't you know it. I COMPLETELY forgot to backup my
Litestep directory. All my
hours spent hand crafting my own
theme and dozens of handmade
icons are all gone. I think I have most of the old ones on home computer. I made 5-7 new ones here at
college, and they shouldn't be too hard to repliclate- just time consuming and tedious.
I also installed latest
Mozilla (m18). They changed the skin from "Mozilla Style" to
Netscape 4.x buttons. I wonder why. Netscape had redesigned their entire site to resemble the new Mozilla style- a lot of people were complaining that they didn't like it though. I guess Netscape gave up on it... Grr, Mozilla's faster and stabler than before. How am I supposed to find
bugs and problems with it now??? Arg! They even satisfied most of my
wishlist requests!! Oh well, I guess it's for the better.
Something really good that came out of this whole mess was that my
sound card is acting properly now. Before it could only play one sound at a time. Now it all of sudden realizes it can do TWO at a time! For some reason I find this sooo cool. Now I can I listen to
music AND listen for
AIM/
ICQ messages...
I showed Chris how to use
DJGPP (or
gcc that is). He's really impressed over the whole
Allegro graphics library. Probably won't need my help now with his
3D engine. I still want to help, but now I'm thinking of using Allegro for a blatant ripoff of
Escape Velocity (
Mac only). John and me were going to do it over the summer in
Java. Haha, like he was actually going to learn Java and then still have
intiative/time to write his part of the game. Don't get me wrong though, he's a
good guy, but has no
will to put effort into something. I'm pretty
lazy myself, but I definitly try and work at
some things. That reminds me, he still has my Java book.
Chris, Gabe, Claire, and I were planning on going to go to
DC on Saturday, but Claire has to
house sit. I suggested we just keep her company for the weekend then. She refused immediately. Eventually I ended up convincing her that it'd be perfectly fine for just me and her to house sit then. Too bad I wasn't serious, because then I had to find an excuse to get out of house sitting with her. Not like I wouldn't mind spending 36 hours alone with a
smart and beautiful girl, just that you
know what would happen. And the consquences of such are pretty scary (
commitment being number one... she's like my best friend- no way would I want to jeopardize that). Though I wonder if she really did want me to come and was just pretending to not to. She's hard to read. Then again, I'm bad at reading. Mostly because people reading me or reading other people piss me off. My
roomate does that. Rather than say something constructive about your
flaws, he just likes to say "I KNEW you were going to do that!" Fairly
annoying, but he's cool otherwise.