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Have you ever noticed it's when you don't have time to post that you have the most stuff to post about?
Went backpacking with my dad for 5 days in New Hampshire, getting back this past wednesday. It was good to see him again, since he's been gone all summer. It was a kinda difficult hike for me though, because my brother has been faster than me for a while, and my dad has been hiking for months and is in shape, so I was always lagging quite a bit behind. Oh well. He's got over 1700 miles behind him and only 400 left to go to Mt. Katadin, the end of the line. He hopes to finish at the end of september. However, he is currently off the trail, having helped my brother move in to Tech this weekend.
Got back, packed. The rest of my family left to bring my brother up to school friday morning, so naturally I spent time with Lauren friday night. She helped me move in saturday, for which I'm eternally thankful, and of course it gave us more time together. ^_^
And then came the computer crisis. I decided that I was going to continue working on the research project I worked on over the summer, in hopes of getting a paper with my name on it out at some point. However, the only way I can really do this is to remotely log into a umich unix-based machine. I thought the easiest way to do this would be to dual-boot my computer, that is partition my harddrive and put windows on part of it and linux on the rest. My dad did it a while back, and said it was easy.
So here's the problem. I tried it yesterday after getting settled in. I don't have the original windows install disk, I only have the HP System Recovery disk, which installs windows plus some other useful (and some not useful) stuff. Unfortunately, it doesn't give me the option of partitioning my harddrive. It gives me the option of only restoring one partition, but since my whole hard drive is only taken up with one partition at the moment, that doesn't do me any good.
Again unfortunately, this wasn't obvious until after I started the process, so I reformated my computer for nothing (yes, I did back up my files first). Well, I still had internet, so I was good right? Except that after 5 minute of being online, I stopped being able to access any pages except the Albion college pages. After a long discussion with IT, they decided I had probably managed to pick up a virus, seeing as I installed windows as it existed two years ago, without any security patches and without working anti-virus software. So IT has my computer for the next two days. I walked into my room a few times today after taking it in, and I couldn't figure out what to do with myself. I mean, there was just this big empty hole in the middle of my desk, and all I could do was sit and stare at it. *sigh*
So you get this post from the Quantitative Skills Center (QSC)in the Albion College Library. I'm here tutoring for Physics 6 hours a week, which means sitting around up here with a computer or doing my own work until someone comes and asks for help, but getting paid for it. And of course, it's the first day of classes, so no one is coming in for help yet. I mean, if you have to come in to the student tutors on the first day, you should probably just drop the class. But in any case, my computer access is limited for a while, so emails will take a while to reach me. Use the cell if you need a fast answer.
Anyway, I've thought up a way to do what I originally wanted to do. I can use someone else's windows install disk to partition my harddrive, and then use the hp system recovery disk to install on just one partition. Only problem is, I need a windows XP install disk to do this. Any volunteers?
Went backpacking with my dad for 5 days in New Hampshire, getting back this past wednesday. It was good to see him again, since he's been gone all summer. It was a kinda difficult hike for me though, because my brother has been faster than me for a while, and my dad has been hiking for months and is in shape, so I was always lagging quite a bit behind. Oh well. He's got over 1700 miles behind him and only 400 left to go to Mt. Katadin, the end of the line. He hopes to finish at the end of september. However, he is currently off the trail, having helped my brother move in to Tech this weekend.
Got back, packed. The rest of my family left to bring my brother up to school friday morning, so naturally I spent time with Lauren friday night. She helped me move in saturday, for which I'm eternally thankful, and of course it gave us more time together. ^_^
And then came the computer crisis. I decided that I was going to continue working on the research project I worked on over the summer, in hopes of getting a paper with my name on it out at some point. However, the only way I can really do this is to remotely log into a umich unix-based machine. I thought the easiest way to do this would be to dual-boot my computer, that is partition my harddrive and put windows on part of it and linux on the rest. My dad did it a while back, and said it was easy.
So here's the problem. I tried it yesterday after getting settled in. I don't have the original windows install disk, I only have the HP System Recovery disk, which installs windows plus some other useful (and some not useful) stuff. Unfortunately, it doesn't give me the option of partitioning my harddrive. It gives me the option of only restoring one partition, but since my whole hard drive is only taken up with one partition at the moment, that doesn't do me any good.
Again unfortunately, this wasn't obvious until after I started the process, so I reformated my computer for nothing (yes, I did back up my files first). Well, I still had internet, so I was good right? Except that after 5 minute of being online, I stopped being able to access any pages except the Albion college pages. After a long discussion with IT, they decided I had probably managed to pick up a virus, seeing as I installed windows as it existed two years ago, without any security patches and without working anti-virus software. So IT has my computer for the next two days. I walked into my room a few times today after taking it in, and I couldn't figure out what to do with myself. I mean, there was just this big empty hole in the middle of my desk, and all I could do was sit and stare at it. *sigh*
So you get this post from the Quantitative Skills Center (QSC)in the Albion College Library. I'm here tutoring for Physics 6 hours a week, which means sitting around up here with a computer or doing my own work until someone comes and asks for help, but getting paid for it. And of course, it's the first day of classes, so no one is coming in for help yet. I mean, if you have to come in to the student tutors on the first day, you should probably just drop the class. But in any case, my computer access is limited for a while, so emails will take a while to reach me. Use the cell if you need a fast answer.
Anyway, I've thought up a way to do what I originally wanted to do. I can use someone else's windows install disk to partition my harddrive, and then use the hp system recovery disk to install on just one partition. Only problem is, I need a windows XP install disk to do this. Any volunteers?