21 Oct 2000 jameson   » (Master)

ISP
After over two weeks of waiting, I finally got my login/password for the evil ISP service. I just had to sign over my soul, which isn't worth much without net access anyway.

FreeSCI
Started merging in the new gfx subsystem. Now that I'm half way done, I'm pretty sure my ad-hoc widget set design sucks. Well, I'll call it a prototype and start over...

University
Wrote the last Pre-Diploma test on tuesday. My stomach believes I'll pass. (Pre-diploma tests are required to get your Pre-diploma in Germany. It's not considered an actual degree, though. If it was, it'd be worth slightly less than a Bachelor's Degree in CS, AFAIK. So, unless I got the terms wrong, I'm now something similar to a graduate student (unless I failed the exam, of course). I don't feel any better yet, though; maybe I'll have to wait for the actual Pre-diploma to be Enlightened.)

Debian
They did it... again! Doing two weeks' worths of updates simultaneously probably was a bad idea, as it broke my woody (as you can imagine, this is a most painful experience). Apparently libc is buggy, which meant that all of the commands I needed to restore the system didn't work. ar and gzip worked fine (as did cp, but not ls...), but tar and all commands for doing remote file transfers were broken, so I had to restore my system from a different box.

Anime
Finally watched the End of Evangelion. It was more flashy than the original 25th and 26th episodes and definitely had more drama (They killed my favorite character! Those bastards! She got a pretty decent exit, though). I still enjoyed the original episodes, mostly because they were pretty expensive, but also because they were quite original in style (a character development tour de force). Both variants got the point across, though.

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