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So X crashed on me. Apparently, some part of the config file didn't fly. - invalid operators and some sort of nonsense like that. Luckily, when a program crashes in Linux, (mind you, it's a pretty important one - X is the Window Manager System, so I can't get to a GUI if X doesn't boot) it doesn't take the whole thing down with it. Being the good paranoiac I am, I had written down the command to use in case something went kerpiffle. I used it, and I'm back, albeit at sixty hertz refresh rate. The nVidia drivers may have been at fault. I might try again to engage my system to run a reasonable refresh rate without installing the nVidia drivers and see if X still wants to crack under the pressure.
After some tweaks and a chat in the help IRC channel, I seem to have a working, stable, selectable solution. We'll see if it stands up to the test of a reboot or two, but I like this option better than all the others. I hope it stays like this - I'm growing quite attached to this Linux system.
If I can trust something like Wine to play D3D games well (which it may or may not), then I don't have to worry so much about the whole Windows partition. It'll still be there for a backup and in case some things don't translate quite right, but for the most part, I'm doing what I did on Windows on a Linux system. The last piece to test will come on Sunday, and then we'll know for sure. I hope it works like advertised.
Following the piece on hyperdrive, this piece about the science of re-entry makes me realize that getting back is a lot tougher than getting out, and getting back safely and not in pieces even more so. Astro/Cosmonauts really do risk their lives.
In addition to that, there's a deaf man's quest for Bolero, and a cartoon epistemology. I find that idea of how the world is to be fascinating. Possible, as well - plausible, I'd say, too, but I'm slightly undereducated and gullible in a lot of ways. If it sounds right, unless I know it's wrong, I'm inclined to accept it, like most of my peers.
Beyond that point, this semester looks like it has less ZOMGPAPERS and more weekly assignments. This does mean that in one class, my two examinations count for seventy percent of the grade. Probably in the other, as well. And I reiterate my undying disgust and aggravation at the mere idea of curved grades and further contempt that it actually is getting used. (At least one of my classes is curved.) Even if I get a reasonable grade in it, I object to curved grades on principle, that students should not be subjected to lesser grades because they were on par with their peers, especially if their raw scores were higher than the curved grade they will receive. If you want to combat grade inflation, make your standards harder and be a ISB that way, rather than curving the grades. You'll get more grumbles, but you'll be able to justify your grade placement better.
Idly, the weekend! Reminder to self, buy one or two dollars worth of chocolate to break the bill so that you can send the book fees before the postage rates go up, got it? And do that cute little one page assignment you have.
After some tweaks and a chat in the help IRC channel, I seem to have a working, stable, selectable solution. We'll see if it stands up to the test of a reboot or two, but I like this option better than all the others. I hope it stays like this - I'm growing quite attached to this Linux system.
If I can trust something like Wine to play D3D games well (which it may or may not), then I don't have to worry so much about the whole Windows partition. It'll still be there for a backup and in case some things don't translate quite right, but for the most part, I'm doing what I did on Windows on a Linux system. The last piece to test will come on Sunday, and then we'll know for sure. I hope it works like advertised.
Following the piece on hyperdrive, this piece about the science of re-entry makes me realize that getting back is a lot tougher than getting out, and getting back safely and not in pieces even more so. Astro/Cosmonauts really do risk their lives.
In addition to that, there's a deaf man's quest for Bolero, and a cartoon epistemology. I find that idea of how the world is to be fascinating. Possible, as well - plausible, I'd say, too, but I'm slightly undereducated and gullible in a lot of ways. If it sounds right, unless I know it's wrong, I'm inclined to accept it, like most of my peers.
Beyond that point, this semester looks like it has less ZOMGPAPERS and more weekly assignments. This does mean that in one class, my two examinations count for seventy percent of the grade. Probably in the other, as well. And I reiterate my undying disgust and aggravation at the mere idea of curved grades and further contempt that it actually is getting used. (At least one of my classes is curved.) Even if I get a reasonable grade in it, I object to curved grades on principle, that students should not be subjected to lesser grades because they were on par with their peers, especially if their raw scores were higher than the curved grade they will receive. If you want to combat grade inflation, make your standards harder and be a ISB that way, rather than curving the grades. You'll get more grumbles, but you'll be able to justify your grade placement better.
Idly, the weekend! Reminder to self, buy one or two dollars worth of chocolate to break the bill so that you can send the book fees before the postage rates go up, got it? And do that cute little one page assignment you have.
