Coming home
Wow, so I'll be coming home for a month tomorrow... I almost feel reluctant about it, university life is quite different and a lot more action-packed than life at home. It'll be good to see you guys again though, and my family of course. What're you all doing Thursday-Saturday? I'm off on Sunday of course, and seeing Lyss Monday/Tuesday I think.
My hard-drive died last friday, again. Maplin were extremely awesome about things though and provided me with an equivalent replacement (but a better brand!) with no questions or anything - I didn't even have the receipt, and they tracked the order and gave me an updated receipt! I'll certainly be buying more hardware from them if they can consistently provide this level of customer support, not to mention the convenience.
Anyway, because of this, I've reinstalled Linux and such - I lost surprisingly little - Annoyingly, some code I was working on, but nothing big and it was unlikely that I was going to finish it anyway... I'm using Ubuntu Linux now, as Mark has raved about before. I did try it out before after my last hard-drive crash, and I wasn't impressed. But things have changed. It is *extremely* awesome and I'll be recommending and installing it for Linux n00bs as much as I can :) (James?)
I'm now in the midst of reinstalling OpenEmbedded, so I can get my dev on again. Also re-downloading Scrubs series 4 that I lost :( (lost some movies too, but nothing I was going to watch anytime soon, and mostly Chris's and James's stuff) Series 4 of Scrubs is great btw, much like series 1-3 - Still has that great feel-good vibe about it, and the brilliant slapstick humour mixed with a pinch of tragedy that make it so unique, in my eyes.
Thinking of humour, have either of you seen Team America yet? I can't remember if I've mentioned it before, but it's the funniest film ever. Period. Well, on initial viewing anyway... But yeah, you should both see it!
Anyway, I'm going to continue to setup OE and start a build going, then ride to uni where I forgot my D-lock on Friday... (whoops) Hopefully someone hasn't taken a hack-saw to it or anything.
See you guys in the week, here's hoping!
My hard-drive died last friday, again. Maplin were extremely awesome about things though and provided me with an equivalent replacement (but a better brand!) with no questions or anything - I didn't even have the receipt, and they tracked the order and gave me an updated receipt! I'll certainly be buying more hardware from them if they can consistently provide this level of customer support, not to mention the convenience.
Anyway, because of this, I've reinstalled Linux and such - I lost surprisingly little - Annoyingly, some code I was working on, but nothing big and it was unlikely that I was going to finish it anyway... I'm using Ubuntu Linux now, as Mark has raved about before. I did try it out before after my last hard-drive crash, and I wasn't impressed. But things have changed. It is *extremely* awesome and I'll be recommending and installing it for Linux n00bs as much as I can :) (James?)
I'm now in the midst of reinstalling OpenEmbedded, so I can get my dev on again. Also re-downloading Scrubs series 4 that I lost :( (lost some movies too, but nothing I was going to watch anytime soon, and mostly Chris's and James's stuff) Series 4 of Scrubs is great btw, much like series 1-3 - Still has that great feel-good vibe about it, and the brilliant slapstick humour mixed with a pinch of tragedy that make it so unique, in my eyes.
Thinking of humour, have either of you seen Team America yet? I can't remember if I've mentioned it before, but it's the funniest film ever. Period. Well, on initial viewing anyway... But yeah, you should both see it!
Anyway, I'm going to continue to setup OE and start a build going, then ride to uni where I forgot my D-lock on Friday... (whoops) Hopefully someone hasn't taken a hack-saw to it or anything.
See you guys in the week, here's hoping!
posted by Chris at 2:26 pm
