izkariote | The Ubuntu Report + Holy Week.

As my previous entry very colorfully reported, Alistair!PC came down with a very, VERY nasty case of a triple-powered Spyware/Adware/Trojan Virus flu because something happened to be floating around on Sendspace while I was downloading. Since it was high time that I upgraded Windows XP on this thing AND because I had originally intended to dual OS anyway, I decided to wipe the C drive clean and stuff Ubuntu on this computer. This was the beginning of a very interesting day for me. @_@

See, we don't actually have a Windows XP installer that isn't already licensed off to another PC around these parts, and it being Holy Week I won't be able to secure one until the techie comes over to take a look at this thing (and to boot up the dual OS for the win!). Add that to the fact that for some reason my C drive refused to let me manually partition it the way I wanted to, and you have Kae hopping around, staring at her screen in horror. I eventually decided to bite the bullet and just completely devote the main drive to Ubuntu... this'll mean re-installing Ubuntu when I need to put Windows XP back in here, but I consider it a small loss.

So. Back to Ubuntu. For about four hours yesterday I couldn't access my Windows partitions -- apparently I didn't have the right permissions to access the drives, and the Ubuntu book was speaking ~~Egyptian Hieroglyphics~~ Greek to me. With thanks to my Dad and

y_u_r_i_k_o, I was able to hard code the permissions into the terminal file and view my files. Note: since the drives are formatted to NTFS and FAT32, I can't write to them, but at this moment that's not necessary.

With my files intact and the fate of my PC secure, I proceeded to twiddle around with Ubuntu. Now I can totally see why my cousin and my Dad are totally gaga over the system. @_@ In nearly every aspect, Ubuntu is the superior OS. The only "complaints" I have aren't really complaints, because with Aidan!Laptop around to fill in the gaps I have a perfectly functioning tandem down here. Now I'm just itching for Holy Week to end so that the dual OS can go up and I'll never have to worry about virus attacks again. :3

Another option is to do a mass back-up of all my files, wipe the drives clean, and stuff everything back in again. It's high time I back up anyway. ...What's stopping me is how much time that'll take and the fact that I dun have cash for DVD discs.

On other news...

Because of the PC woes, I missed out on my April 5 post for

31_days. T_T *crawls off to do

citrus_avenue.

magnetic_rose,

sortinghatlover and

khursten: I know you guys don't dig her work, but in case you want to find something more recent to replace Death Note: The Last Name with on the film showing, the first OVA of Winter Cicada just came out, and it looked pretty decent to

yukitsu and I in spite of the overall lack of action in it (DON'T GET US WRONG IT WAS STILL VERY GAY). We can also throw in the 25th episode Death Note anime BECAUSE IT IS TEH GH3I. L dies, for one. And before he dies they have their whole wet-tshirt-plus-drying-each-other-off scene there. @_@

Apparently a lot of households still practice the reciting of the pasyon down here. From the distance they're at relative to my house, it all sounds like a bunch of monks chanting up some sinister spell. No, no, seriously, it does! x_X

Now I need to go back to those LJ tags.