Breakthrough point
April 13, 2002
You know how it is when something that starts out seeming to be completely incomprehensible finally looks like it's within your grasp? I think Linux and I have come to that point tonight. Matt and I have both been fussing over my laptop for several days now... I took it in to the library on Thursday, got it all set up for use with the university network, and then brought it home to find it would no longer recognize our network here at home.
Anyway, the breakthrough is that at first I couldn't even figure out where to begin fussing (there are 12 ways of changing every configuration in linux, it seems), but tonight I actually managed to sit down and reconfigure the whole thing, from beginning to end, and I've finally got the network again. As a matter of fact, I'm on the laptop now. I'm rather content with it. I think I'm enthusiastic enough to actually work on my paper now. Not to mention that now I can get the file on the laptop to the desktop so I can finally combine the two sections of the paper, which are currently in separate files and, for some reason, which I can't seem to get on a floppy disk from one machine to the other. Don't ask...it's just another problem for another day.