I’ve now really set up Ubuntu how I like and even managed to install Mac OS X x86 (i.e. for PC) on my third partition, but I’ve yet to find a stable boot-loader installable from Ubuntu that can detect and boot up all three partition types (NTFS for Windows, EXT3 for Linux, and HFS+ for Mac). So far, GRUB only loads into Windows and Linux, but doesn’t open the Mac partition. This makes me peeved but I’m sure sooner or later I’ll figure it out. I’ve learned a ton of stuff.
Even though I pretty much raped one of my drives (now fixed) and had to completely wipe one of my hard drives, OS’s and all, I’m still glad I finally made the change from Windows to Linux. Ubuntu has become my default boot option (as it has been since I first installed it), and Windows my alternative option if I absolutely need a certain Windows only application.
Summer is now over pretty much and I’ve got about twenty hours or so before I’ve got to head out for another year of school again. Being a grade twelve is going to be a neat experience. It’d be like being a grade eight in junior high again, which was not that bad (IMO).
5 things I need for school (aka: School-Go-Bag):
- my accordion organizer for sheets and handouts
- my trusty pencil case with trusty innards
- my library of notebooks, one for each subject (carried over from last year)
- my anthology of grade twelve textbooks (graciously lent to me by Perry’s father, who taught/teaches grade twelve)
- my dear computer, set up for working (I’ve yet to install any games since my reinstalls)
I’m actually quite looking forward to having a year with my own set of textbooks in my own home. PDF textbooks are fine, but mostly very annoying since I’ll have to be attached to my computer to use them, not to mention the fact that I’ve got little screen real estate as it is, too little for textbook browsing. I hate taking textbooks home. For one, it’s not so great on my backpacks to be carrying maybe two or three large, hard cover, thick thick texts at a time. I am also extremely lazy and would rather not have to lug them on the one hour trip (with a considerable amount of walking) from school back home or vice versa.
I still haven’t finished my extended essay but I have done enough to get me well on my way. I just didn’t read fast enough. I think a draft is due by the end of September, which will be fine by me. I’ll be cracking on it again as soon as I get some inspiration. I don’t know how to sit down and force out essays… I also don’t like to carefully ensure I am always in the prescribed form, but that’s probably a more serious flaw to be address in revision. Summer homework has been a drag but may yet have some redemptive qualities to it. For example, I’ve gotten some important things to be done out of the way for now and I’ve also kept my mathy cogs turning (albeit on low gear) over the course of my otherwise illogical summer.