The trip to Norwich was pretty successful. I spent fun time with mchicago and bouncykaz and presented them with two UGLI fruits :D, had paul_c look at my hard disk for me and fetched a laptop from quinophex, thank ye both. Bad news on the hard disk front, it’s now officially broken. Oh well, at least now I can send off for a replacement on the warranty.
Played three games of pool with bouncykaz which was a lot of fun, I even enjoyed losing, twice. Among the numerous dangerous activities over the weekend were trying to get corks into bottles of home brew beer, no mean feat without the right equipment! mchicago‘s flatmate Ian the cook cooked for us twice, scrummy.
When it came to go home a search on the internet revealed that all of the trains back to Peterborough had been cancelled. Wonderful. J and Kaz found a bus for me which went direct, but cost more on top of my return train ticket, they did somehow manage to get the bus driver to “Moose” at me from outside the bus though! Was much more comfortable than a train would have been, reclining seat, personal lighting and heating controls, a bottle to talk to… By the time it got to Peterborough I was the only passenger left and the driver asked me where I wanted dropping off. It also only cost £4 which I think is a bargain.
Today was mainly getting distracted by things I shouldn’t be doing. I used Knoppix on the newly aquired laptop for a few hours to see how long it would take to overheat 😛 reubs decided he wanted to get rid of Linux and install Windows again, with my help. asher_francis‘s virus ridden computer had to wiped and re-installed, I decided to dual boot Windows and Lindows for him. It seemed like a good idea to test the Lindows CD that came with a Linux mag quinophex gave me on someone elses computer 😉
Lindows is OK. It autodetected *everything* on the computer and had all the tools the average home user needs installed by default with an extremely easy to use installer. However, it doesn’t have a partitioning tool during installation so I had to use a Knoppix disk to do that. The licensing is a little dubious, as is the Microsoft bashing on their web site, although understandable after the recent attempted lawsuit. No, Microsoft, you don’t own the word “Windows”, get over it. The subscription based “Click N Run” package manager (?) looks dodgy too.
Now the weekend is drawing to a close the stress of school is seeping back into my conciousness. lauperr kindly reminded me we have a CPT4 mock exam tomorrow and it still hasn’t sunk in that I have a week to finish two pieces of coursework. I just know they’re both going to drag out right over Easter. My brain just won’t seem to register the problem in the correlation between the amount of pages left to fill and the number of seconds left in which to fill them. I completely accidentally missed a DT lesson on Friday as well, I still can’t figure out how I thought I had a free.
I’ve just found a whole new load of Creative Commons music on the web. CC have released a new License specifically for music, details here. So look out for the “Share Music”, “Some rights Reserved” logo.
Oh poodles, I haven’t finished filling in those questions yet for the job interview…