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acchikocchiDiscovery #1:
I've finally done it -- after months of making noise about trying out Linux, I come to you now live from Linux Mint, an Ubuntu-based distro which is extremely aesthetically pleasing. *_* (that is to say: omg it's so BEAUTIFUL and SHINY and FAST and, and, and...) Because I like safety nets, I didn't jettison Windows entirely but did the whole partition-and-dual-boot thing as explained on roughly a thousand tutorial websites. Turns out this is good because battery life is noticeably less on Mint than on XP; otherwise I've been completely seduced thus far.
Discovery #2:
For anyone who regularly uses more than one computer: Dropbox is a MIRACLE, omg. *_* Like the name implies, it provides a file dropbox you can access via secure login from any computer with the program installed. So instead of emailing yourself 7 different versions of the same file as you keep making changes or messing with your USB drive out for a MEASLY 22K WORD DOCUMENT (...you can see that has always bothered me XD) you just pop into the dropbox and you're all set. For a variety of reasons involving a laptop that doesn't like Photobucket/LJ Photo/basically any photo uploading service and a printer that only has a PS2 port, this is a dream come true for me.
I keep meaning to post about Media Stuff; aside from catching up on reading real books I've seen a truly obscene amount of television over the last few weeks (Torchwood, Doctor Who, The West Wing, the new BSG episodes) while I hang around waiting on each successive step of the interview/application process for a Particular Thing. But that will have to wait for later, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ettezag, encouraged by the comment thread on my last post, is coming over in a short while to force the beginning of Merlin on me. Er. That came out a bit wrong but you all know what I mean.
p.s. hands up anyone who would read "arthur and merlin fall through the rift to cardiff"
I've finally done it -- after months of making noise about trying out Linux, I come to you now live from Linux Mint, an Ubuntu-based distro which is extremely aesthetically pleasing. *_* (that is to say: omg it's so BEAUTIFUL and SHINY and FAST and, and, and...) Because I like safety nets, I didn't jettison Windows entirely but did the whole partition-and-dual-boot thing as explained on roughly a thousand tutorial websites. Turns out this is good because battery life is noticeably less on Mint than on XP; otherwise I've been completely seduced thus far.
Discovery #2:
For anyone who regularly uses more than one computer: Dropbox is a MIRACLE, omg. *_* Like the name implies, it provides a file dropbox you can access via secure login from any computer with the program installed. So instead of emailing yourself 7 different versions of the same file as you keep making changes or messing with your USB drive out for a MEASLY 22K WORD DOCUMENT (...you can see that has always bothered me XD) you just pop into the dropbox and you're all set. For a variety of reasons involving a laptop that doesn't like Photobucket/LJ Photo/basically any photo uploading service and a printer that only has a PS2 port, this is a dream come true for me.
I keep meaning to post about Media Stuff; aside from catching up on reading real books I've seen a truly obscene amount of television over the last few weeks (Torchwood, Doctor Who, The West Wing, the new BSG episodes) while I hang around waiting on each successive step of the interview/application process for a Particular Thing. But that will have to wait for later, as
ettezag, encouraged by the comment thread on my last post, is coming over in a short while to force the beginning of Merlin on me. Er. That came out a bit wrong but you all know what I mean.p.s. hands up anyone who would read "arthur and merlin fall through the rift to cardiff"
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Date: 2009-02-20 12:47 am (UTC)I WOULD ALSO READ THE ONE WHERE ARTHUR ACCIDENTALLY GETS TURNED INTO THE FACE OF AVALONno subject
Date: 2009-02-20 12:51 am (UTC)HOW ABOUT A DEAL i'll write arthur and merlin meet torchwood three if you'll write the face of avalon skdja;sdjsl;d ahahahaha.
YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE YOU SHOULD DO? YOU SHOULD ANSWER YOUR EMAIL. or get on aim! one or the other! GLAD TO HEAR YOU'RE NOT DEAD.
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Date: 2009-02-20 12:56 am (UTC)I WILL. lkjadlkklajdlajd i have been so lakjdlajd busy? i guess? i don't know. somehow i magically got a life that's not attached to the computer. plus, i was rereading all of dragonball *sighs* the movie is going to be awful and COMPLETELY MISS THE POINT D:
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Date: 2009-02-20 01:09 am (UTC)what internship. tell anita all
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Date: 2009-02-20 01:23 am (UTC)Oh man, I forgot your mother was in New Zealand. *_* *ENVIOUS SIGH*
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Date: 2009-02-20 01:42 am (UTC)ps. will be back after lunch. also, i have to clean the whole house from top to bottom because my mother's coming home today... D:
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Date: 2009-02-20 01:15 am (UTC)C-can't you use Gdocs for just documents though?
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Date: 2009-02-20 01:30 am (UTC)I've never quite managed to bond with Gdocs! It's a quirk, I know, but I find fic comes easiest when I'm using Word and for everything else I prefer (of all things) Wordpad the most. Just one of those things, I guess.
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Date: 2009-02-20 01:41 am (UTC)I am so single-minded. The only PS2 I know is the game console. :\
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Date: 2009-02-20 02:02 am (UTC)Congratulations on your Linux-fu! *_* Every now and then I think about trying to use it on a regular basis but I just ... the flesh is weak. And I am so, so lazy.
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Date: 2009-02-20 03:51 am (UTC)Thank you! sdajkl;s that's why it took me so long, I kept thinking "oh, I should really actually install it instead of playing with different live CDs" and... and... yeah, lazy. (And timid.) Completely understand.
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Date: 2009-02-20 04:13 am (UTC)Good luck plotting! [insert vaguely crazed laugh here]
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Date: 2009-02-22 11:20 pm (UTC)(Upon second thought Torchwood Three may be taking a short trip to Camelot instead simply because I'm too lazy to write out how Merlin and Arthur adjust to guns and cars and all that and I think I can still preserve all the scenes I want to ahahahaha like Arthur trying to co-opt Ianto as his new (perfect) manservant. heh heh heh.)