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For the first time in 8 years, I went to bed before 9 pm lastnight.
That's what not getting much sleep, waking up very early, and then
spending all day at Busch Gardens does to ya.
Attack of the clones had
the 3rd
highest opening ever on Thursday, even beating out Episode 1. It also now
holds the record for the largest Thursday earnings ever. This includes the $6 to $8
million earned from the midnight showings alone. Weekend figures will be
interesting.
I also installed Windows XP Professional Edition on Wednesday. The Engineering
college at the University of Florida has a deal with Microsoft to give the
engineering students free MS software, so we can download Windows XP, Windows
2000, Visual Studio, and several other server/programming based applications
totally free. Essentially I just saved $250 by going to UF instead of having to
pay retail for it. The reason they do this of course it to get us hooked and
using MS software, so that once we're working we'll try to convinence our
employeers how great MS is.
Anyways, it is quite nice and worthy of an upgrade if you have a fast enough
computer. On my PII 450 though, it runs quite a bit slower than Millenium and
Linux. Not unusable, but it lags sometimes. It is nice though to see some
features that I've been using in Linux for 3 years now finally come up in
Windows. It looks a whole lot better than the Win 9x series, and for the new
computer users it is somewhat more helpful. Installing it wasn't too bad except
for some files that for some reason couldnt be copied. It's suspecious since the
files were uncopyable on the two seperate downloads and cd burnings I did of XP,
so it would have to be something with the download site or Windows XP itself.
Regardless it didn't cause any problems, so alls well that ends well.
Mandrake Linux on the whole has the better installation IMHO, especially when it
comes to partitioning and formating hard drives.
I'll still use Linux a majority of the time though, as it's so much more
convinent and quicker for me to do things in it, and still has a lot of features
that Windows hasnt' caught up to yet (cough*multiple desktops*cough). Anywho,
here's a screenshot of my
desktop.
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