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Date: 22 July 2005 07:29:15
Well, I had my fourth and final class for the week today. Every class has been getting better - I hope it's me becoming a better teacher rather than having progressively better groups of students.
I've also finally got broadband - hallelujah! It's long overdue and I already appreciate it. I managed to download an entirely new operating system for Elicia's computer yesterday, Ubuntu linux. It's impressive. Much nicer than the last distro I was using, Mepis. Ubuntu is much cleaner in design and has just the right amount of programs pre-installed. Enough to be useful, not enough to be looking through the menus thinking 'I don't even know what that does and I'm never going to bother finding out'. Installing with broadband accessible is also much easier, it updates itself beautifully.
And let me tell you the best thing about it: there's an installation utility that has a list of all programs available to install (there are hundreds), all I needed to do to install blender was choose it from the list. Ubuntu downloaded it, installed it and added it to the menu automagically. Fantastic! (I know regular linux users are used to such handy utilities and will think I'm getting excited over not much, but I've been a MS user for a long time. Anything that works the way it's meant to is a bonus - being handy and useful is extra goodness!)
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Look at the way the sun
shines, sparkling, on the
dark bitumen of the road.
Rain transforms matte
into startling gloss.