Graduated, got hired, start work Tuesday!

I just told a friend who is going out to buy a floppy disc so he can boot into a minimal dos environment about one time I had to do a crazy hack network install to an old Vaio laptop that had neither floppy or cdrom, just a gimped install of debian or slackware or something. I had to change the boot image to a floppy image of the distro I wanted to enable a network install that would also make the laptop more useable again. I think I had to copy over the image from a usb disc (it didn’t support usb boot), boot into that, and then mount the install image I wanted over the network or something crazy. Been a while.

Anyway, I felt pretty leet for a moment. Then I realized all I did was use Google.

-sigh-

Finally. Assuming I pass this semester of course.

Unf.

Moving sucks.

So yeah, due to an unfortunate miscommunication (I wasn’t fired), I was unable to continue my employment with Dr. J. So my work on the CVE has ended. I’m now working for ICT here on campus and it is going pretty well, however it is sad that I’m not getting the research experience I would have gained from working on VIEW. Se la vi.

Ubuntu 7.04 is quite nice. You may have to make sure your repositories are refreshed on a clean install (and double-check them anyway if you’re upgrading) but other than that installation and setup is smooth as silk. Additionally, you no longer have the headache of searching for codecs and other things needed to play videos and other media. Once you first try to play said videos, 7.04 will at your behest search and install for you. You only have to clickthrough. Nvidia drivers are equally easy via the ‘Restricted Drivers’ manager, not to mention wireless drivers. I have one machine with an upgrade install from 6.10 and another machine with a clean 7.04 install. There are a couple of minor differences in how the menus are setup but otherwise both are working out fabulously.

Married life is very nice, but not very easy at times!