Sooo. My brother! He almost exclusively runs Linux. He's got an actual copy of Windows, but he also has a Windows emulator, which is mostly what he uses to run things that don't work on Linux. He is pretty proud of himself and his virus-proof computer ( Read more... )

New computer has been mercifully problemless so far. It's running Vista, so everything looks wrong and I haven't got it all figured out yet, but I disabled the UAC and a bunch of other stuff so it no longer asks me if I want to allow everything ( Read more... )

YES.

NEW LAPTOP IS HERE. IT ARRIVES ON A DAY I HAVE NO CLASSES!

The delivery man was his usual ninja self and I almost missed him, but clearly I did not. \o/ So excited!

Hm. There was something I wanted to post about, but for the life of me I cannot remember what now.

Oh, well! Running away to get it up and running now. :D :D :D :D

by the ( Read more... )

Have I mentioned it? Did you know there was a time you could type "Valkurm" into Google and in the search results, it'd pop up, "Did you mean "HELL"?" Wish I'd saved a screenshot so badly.

Supernatural's 'Houses of the Holy' versus Jecca's memories of Doctor Who's 'Blink' .... FIGHT! I don't care that none of them were weeping. I'm just glad that ( Read more... )

Fastest delivery ever.

...... you know. Boxes get in and, with only a few exceptions, boxes get out.

... I HAVE A PLAN. Haha.

Now I need to find a suitable box.

( But first, more racing. )

...

I think the computer is clean.

If I never have to do that again... It's enough to make one want to swear off the internet.

I can't believe I made the Spyware wallpaper go away. And the pop-ups have stopped. And I took the liberty of installing Firefox on his laptop while I was there.

I think I might go to bed now. I deserve a long nap.

aww, my parents love me!

Er, no. I do actually know they love me.

But tonight we (shut up, it's still February, anyway) went out for dinner to celebrate my birthday! And it was very tasty. Also, I got a box in the mail! It contained an external hard drive! IT IS HUGE. Not... not physically. It's actually small, there. But 250 GB ( Read more... )