Captains Log (supplemental)
Maybe I should stop watching so much Star Trek TNG on TNN. Hmm, well I will actually post a real update here in a few hours, in the meantime let me suffice it to say that my current excapades into the land of linux and the province of video cards requires that I place this link on my site for me to retrieve later. Enjoy this quick little confirmation of my survival of the week. I wasn�t sure if I was gonna pull through there for a while.
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Well now, it�s later. And that link above is really useless to me. I think I�v decided that I�m just not going to get my current box to run Linux. Besides, I dont really need to use linux, but I do need to use WindowsXP for the video gaming and multimedia creation capabilities. Dual booting was all well and good when I had a geForce2 video card that would correctly install and run with openGL support every time I installed a linux distrobution. My distribution of choice is Mandrake an all around wholesome distrobution that purports to be userfriendly. Whatever, it�s kinda user-friendly, but still just as frustrating as any other. My problem now is that I have a nice ATI All In Wonder Radeon 8500DV video card. A really wonderful card with mediocre software provided by ATI, that does great things for video content creation. Unfortunately Mandrake 8.2, 9.0, and 9.1 have all been unable to start X after installaion. Somehow the installation program can always run in full GUI glory, but I am unable to get a flicker at even the lowest resolution settings. This is frustrating because I really enjoy using Linux. I have come to the conclusionthat it would simply be much easier to simply build another machine and just run Linux on that with a more generic and well supported video card.
To all of you out there that are not fluent in geekese. This is probably pointless to you. The above paragraph is tantamount to admission of treason against my geek brethren. I am making a dangerous declaration with this decision to just not have linux on my personal computer.
Okay, finally something not computer related to talk about. This previous week was a little hectic, I ended up working on a video project monday at the last minute. I stayed up until 5:00 editing and re shooting and it still ended up pretty crappy because of equipment failures. Then my alarm clock got unplugged somehow and I slept stright through the class where I was supposed to turn it in. The teacher was not pleased and this really hurt what I thought was going to be an easy A. I am learning that there is really no such thing as an easy A. I should probably learn to manage my time a little more wisely. Yet I have to ask myself what is going on, I don�t drink or party and yet I have trouble managing all the stuff going on in my life, yet somehow the people around me that screw around so much and tell me to �loosen up� they don�t seem to have much trouble keeping up with everything in school. Maybe the difference is just that they don�t really care about what happens in the classes. Honestly I am just a touch on the lazy side, I have been given a really easy life with few major problems, yet I manage to screw up a lot of the stuff like school that is just a matter of focusing my existing capabilities on a goal. Wow, I had intended to stop this crazy rant a few sentences ago, now I am on a roll. I think that I will try to make some goals for my life. I really don�t have many, other than a vuage notion that I want to graduate ~2 years from now. After that I assume I will find a job doing some multimedia work. Hmm� perhaps a statement of my aspirations would be a good thing.
It�s amazing how inspirational spending a few minutes in the party room down the hall was. Being around people that are caught up in the moment and not worried about anything beyond tonight is enlightening, yet introspective thougts only come to fruition through the medium of the written word. Translating your thoughts to a permanent and organized format seems important to understanding ones self. The inner processes of the human mind are unremarkable only as long as they remain the sole domain of our own minds. As soon as the complexities of the thought process are exposed to the harsh light of reality, we perceive the remarkable abilities of reasoning humanity possesses. Each person is a waste of the great potential that we were imbued with at creation. The power of the human mind is only limited by the boundaries of the human will.
These deep thoughts are brought to you by the relaxation that only Radiohead and Morcheeba can bring, exhaustion, and the letter �H�. (for hunger)
/me is away: body in motion, mind halted