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1 hour of College Life 6/22/98

So, Wabut, how was you first hour of college life? Well, 3 words went through my head during the hour I was there. I am hungry. Well, another 3 words too. I am sleepy. Both of these were entirely my fault. And both sort-of caused each other. For the last couple of weeks I've been going to sleep at way late times. But, since I knew I had to go to summer session the next day, I went to sleep at 12:10. Unfortunately it didn't work and I ended up just laying there for 2 hours before falling asleep. Yippee. Well, since I fell asleep late I ended up waking up late. How fun. So I snatched a waffle and 1/4 cup of milk and I was off for school. That's a power breakfast. Something you can last 48 hours on. What a great day. Yippee. I thnk I'll do it again today.
Anything else happen? Of course. This is wabut you're talking about here. Well, lazy me decided to try to enroll into this class on the first day of school. Best part? 8 or so openings, 13+ people wanting to get in. How will they determine who gets in? Lottery system of course. Yup, luck, my best friend in the entire world. The kicker? I get to sit in the front of the classroom (literally. facing the class and everything.) in a plastic chair with nothing to write on. Fun for all ages.
At least I get a full rebate for my books if I dont get in the class. Yippe or something.

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1 hour of College Life	6/22/98
So, Wabut, how was you first hour of college life? Well, 3 words went through my head during the hour I was there. I am hungry. Well, another 3 words too. I am sleepy. Both of these were entirely my fault. And both sort-of caused each other. For the last couple of weeks I've been going to sleep at way late times. But, since I knew I had to go to summer session the next day, I went to sleep at 12:10. Unfortunately it didn't work and I ended up just laying there for 2 hours before falling asleep. Yippee. Well, since I fell asleep late I ended up waking up late. How fun. So I snatched a waffle and 1/4 cup of milk and I was off for school. That's a power breakfast. Something you can last 48 hours on. What a great day. Yippee. I thnk I'll do it again today. Anything else happen? Of course. This is wabut you're talking about here. Well, lazy me decided to try to enroll into this class on the first day of school. Best part? 8 or so openings, 13+ people wanting to get in. How will they determine who gets in? Lottery system of course. Yup, luck, my best friend in the entire world. The kicker? I get to sit in the front of the classroom (literally. facing the class and everything.) in a plastic chair with nothing to write on. Fun for all ages. At least I get a full rebate for my books if I dont get in the class. Yippe or something.
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Big-Ass Downloads 6/22/98

The pain in the ass. Big-ass Downloads. And DSL isn't here yet, and isn't going to be priced that good either. With the increase in technology and all those goodies, the standard size for most games is way up there in the 300 megs to whatever a DVD can hold. Most of its graphics anyway. Take Riven/Mist/big_Ass_screensaver. Its entire source code is only the size of 5 floppy disks (or less), yet it came on a bunch of CDs. Because of the damn graphics. But this doesn't bother me, since it came on CDs and you don't have to download it or anything. The problem occurs when some neat demos come out. Like the Final Fantasy 7 demo is huge. Even though the game probably rocks, there is almost no way I'd download that. I really don't have 12 hours to waste while this puppy sucks up my bandwidth. I'm surprised that anyone actually does download those demos.
But it doesn't stop there. Downloading some web pages is even worse. Culprit? None other than big ass java applets that do nothing except distort some image. At least when downloading a demo, you get to play some game or somethng, but waiting for that 300k+ java applet to download is a pain in the ass. And what happens when its done? two things. 1) distorted graphic. woohoo. Wow. how cool or something. 2)error. The great thing that is java.
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Big-Ass Downloads	6/22/98
The pain in the ass. Big-ass Downloads. And DSL isn't here yet, and isn't going to be priced that good either. With the increase in technology and all those goodies, the standard size for most games is way up there in the 300 megs to whatever a DVD can hold. Most of its graphics anyway. Take Riven/Mist/big_Ass_screensaver. Its entire source code is only the size of 5 floppy disks (or less), yet it came on a bunch of CDs. Because of the damn graphics. But this doesn't bother me, since it came on CDs and you don't have to download it or anything. The problem occurs when some neat demos come out. Like the Final Fantasy 7 demo is huge. Even though the game probably rocks, there is almost no way I'd download that. I really don't have 12 hours to waste while this puppy sucks up my bandwidth. I'm surprised that anyone actually does download those demos. But it doesn't stop there. Downloading some web pages is even worse. Culprit? None other than big ass java applets that do nothing except distort some image. At least when downloading a demo, you get to play some game or somethng, but waiting for that 300k+ java applet to download is a pain in the ass. And what happens when its done? two things. 1) distorted graphic. woohoo. Wow. how cool or something. 2)error. The great thing that is java.
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Why college life sucks and how I know before school even starts. 6/23/98

Mature Content. 17+ older only

College will suck. I guarentee pure suckiness and nothing more. let's review why college life will suck for me... (chronologically)
1)Low-Level Cpu-Sci class - The pure evil that is a low-level class. I was suppose to be able to skip this calss, but my former school's office is full of crackheads. Not just ordinary stupid-ass crackheads, but dumb-ass I_can't_bubble_in_the_correct_fucking_bubble crackheads. The ass-munches in the office, namely Rudy BrownE, ordered the wrong bitch-ass test. Therefore I didn't take the CpuSci AP test. Now I'm forced to satrt college, taking classes which I could probably program the entire semester's workload in 10 minutes. Not only will I waste an entire semester in college, I also wasted an entire year of computer science for practiaclly nothing. All i fucking got wsa a damn award for outstanding achievement in Computer Science. A cheap Piece of paper with fancy caligraphy. Suck is the appropiate word.
2)Stupid or wack-ass Systems In a previous rant, I talked about how all I could think about during the summer class was being hungry. Well, now I'm not even in that class. I wish I could say that I was kicked out for starting a riot against teachers stupider (is that a word? or is it more stupid? oh well...) than their students. But, I couldn't do that and would never happen. Instead I got booted by luck. Of course, luck. My biggest nemesis in the entire world. I'd be ok with this, but the teacher fucking misled me. She said it would be done by a lottery system. My head thought : Write your fucking name on a piece of paper, drop it in a god damn hat, and the first 5 drawn get to suffer in hell with the teacher. But that didn't happen. Her stupid ass idea of a lottery? Put scribbles and X's on pieces of papers, walk around the god damn room, and whoever gets a fucking X stays in. What the fuck... The worst part of this bitch ass operation is that your probability of staying increases or decreases depending on what the person in front of you did. Not like the names in the hat, where your probability only increases. Pure shit. And that ass of a teacher can't even count. She created less pieces of paper then there was students who wanted to add. So what does she do when she gets to my side of the class? Adds more scribbles. What is this shit? even worse... 3 fag muffins showed up today wanting to be added to the class. And 2 of them were fucking lucky. And I spent an hour doing the fucking homework, and spent $40 on books for that god damned class.
With my fucking luck, when i get to college I'll get the nice dorm with cows, pigs, and 14.4 dial-up access. I hate my luck. Next? A "We just got your transcript, and don't want your slacking ass at UCDavis" letter. I'm waiting.....

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Why college life sucks and how I know before school even starts.	6/23/98
Mature Content. 17+ older only
College will suck. I guarentee pure suckiness and nothing more. let's review why college life will suck for me... (chronologically) 1)Low-Level Cpu-Sci class - The pure evil that is a low-level class. I was suppose to be able to skip this calss, but my former school's office is full of crackheads. Not just ordinary stupid-ass crackheads, but dumb-ass I_can't_bubble_in_the_correct_fucking_bubble crackheads. The ass-munches in the office, namely Rudy BrownE, ordered the wrong bitch-ass test. Therefore I didn't take the CpuSci AP test. Now I'm forced to satrt college, taking classes which I could probably program the entire semester's workload in 10 minutes. Not only will I waste an entire semester in college, I also wasted an entire year of computer science for practiaclly nothing. All i fucking got wsa a damn award for outstanding achievement in Computer Science. A cheap Piece of paper with fancy caligraphy. Suck is the appropiate word. 2)Stupid or wack-ass Systems In a previous rant, I talked about how all I could think about during the summer class was being hungry. Well, now I'm not even in that class. I wish I could say that I was kicked out for starting a riot against teachers stupider (is that a word? or is it more stupid? oh well...) than their students. But, I couldn't do that and would never happen. Instead I got booted by luck. Of course, luck. My biggest nemesis in the entire world. I'd be ok with this, but the teacher fucking misled me. She said it would be done by a lottery system. My head thought : Write your fucking name on a piece of paper, drop it in a god damn hat, and the first 5 drawn get to suffer in hell with the teacher. But that didn't happen. Her stupid ass idea of a lottery? Put scribbles and X's on pieces of papers, walk around the god damn room, and whoever gets a fucking X stays in. What the fuck... The worst part of this bitch ass operation is that your probability of staying increases or decreases depending on what the person in front of you did. Not like the names in the hat, where your probability only increases. Pure shit. And that ass of a teacher can't even count. She created less pieces of paper then there was students who wanted to add. So what does she do when she gets to my side of the class? Adds more scribbles. What is this shit? even worse... 3 fag muffins showed up today wanting to be added to the class. And 2 of them were fucking lucky. And I spent an hour doing the fucking homework, and spent $40 on books for that god damned class. With my fucking luck, when i get to college I'll get the nice dorm with cows, pigs, and 14.4 dial-up access. I hate my luck. Next? A "We just got your transcript, and don't want your slacking ass at UCDavis" letter. I'm waiting.....
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System Conflicts. The Bastard that is. 9/15/98

Fudge. So today, I decide to install a ethernet card. Sounds simple. When I installed one on my sisters computer, it was just plug it in, install the drivers and it was finsihed. So, taking the plunge I opened my computer and dropped in the 3com card. That itself was the hardest part last time. So after the 10 minutes of shoving that damn thing in, i booted up my computer.
So it boots up, and ....well there's no sound. I do some IRQ tossing, and everything seems better. One more reboot...
Nope. aw fudge again. Now my modem's on crack. So I try every god damn thing to fix the conflicts. I even tried (*gasp*) reading the win95 help manual (which helped... sort-of) . Well, this story is making no sense, and I doubt anyone will even try reading this. Even I am boring the hell out of myself. the only reason I'm writing this is because I want to update this section.
END> I removed the card, and will install it some other time. Blah. That sucked, eh? Serves you right, for not just sticking to the news page.
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System Conflicts. The Bastard that is.	9/15/98
Fudge. So today, I decide to install a ethernet card. Sounds simple. When I installed one on my sisters computer, it was just plug it in, install the drivers and it was finsihed. So, taking the plunge I opened my computer and dropped in the 3com card. That itself was the hardest part last time. So after the 10 minutes of shoving that damn thing in, i booted up my computer. So it boots up, and ....well there's no sound. I do some IRQ tossing, and everything seems better. One more reboot... Nope. aw fudge again. Now my modem's on crack. So I try every god damn thing to fix the conflicts. I even tried (gasp) reading the win95 help manual (which helped... sort-of) . Well, this story is making no sense, and I doubt anyone will even try reading this. Even I am boring the hell out of myself. the only reason I'm writing this is because I want to update this section. END> I removed the card, and will install it some other time. Blah. That sucked, eh? Serves you right, for not just sticking to the news page.
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It's College life, and so far it ain't that bad. 9/28/98 What? On a previous rant I said that college life would suck? I guess that I'm wrong. Well so far. I haven't gone to a class yet, so I have yet to find out about major stress. Recap of a pretty cool day:
5:00 AM : I'm asleep. Until...
5:14 AM : Drums, trumpets and a whole friggin band. It must be a special day, when a band comes up to your dorm room and plays music for you. They also sang something, but I couldn't hear what they were saying. Toot toot goes the horn.
9:00 AM : I wake up. Partially. Me and my roommate (if you know me, you know him... otherwise you don't need to know.), try are hardest to stay awake while changing clothes. nothing like less than 5 hours of sleep a day.
9:45 AM : Oh right. I woke up for a reason. There was a thingy us l33t engineering students had to go to. me and my roommate skipped breakfast (well sort-of. we ate crackers). It sucked. it was worthless. But at least we didn't get lost going down there
11:00 AM : yeah right. Like I get to go eat now.

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It's College life, and so far it ain't that bad.	9/28/98	What? On a previous rant I said that college life would suck? I guess that I'm wrong. Well so far. I haven't gone to a class yet, so I have yet to find out about major stress. Recap of a pretty cool day: 5:00 AM : I'm asleep. Until... 5:14 AM : Drums, trumpets and a whole friggin band. It must be a special day, when a band comes up to your dorm room and plays music for you. They also sang something, but I couldn't hear what they were saying. Toot toot goes the horn. 9:00 AM : I wake up. Partially. Me and my roommate (if you know me, you know him... otherwise you don't need to know.), try are hardest to stay awake while changing clothes. nothing like less than 5 hours of sleep a day. 9:45 AM : Oh right. I woke up for a reason. There was a thingy us l33t engineering students had to go to. me and my roommate skipped breakfast (well sort-of. we ate crackers). It sucked. it was worthless. But at least we didn't get lost going down there 11:00 AM : yeah right. Like I get to go eat now.

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Making your cpu the shitz. 1/26/99

Those who tune in know that my computer was totally fucked the last week. I was not alone as the Evil Penguin is still going through hell as I write this. Here's how to got out of corrupt hell.

Steps to avoid the dreaded reformat.
1 -> boot to dos using f8 at the boot.
2 -> edit your autoexec.bat to boot your cd-rom ip. i.e. on my computer, I have to add mscdex.exe /D:MSCD000 or something like that. You must have this in there or your ass will be screwed like mines. I booted once, and just typed that in to get my cd running. UNfortunatly, win95 reboots during installation, so on the 1st reboot it asked for some drivers. Unfortunatly there was no cd-rom and I was fuxored.
3 -> reboot to dos mode again, or just type in your mscdex crap. 4 -> go in to your windows directory, copy himem.sys to somewhere else and del *.*
5 -> deltree system trust me.
6 -> Here's where I went wrong. The del command does not delete hidden or system files. So my corrupt ass registry still hung around.
c:\windows\>del system.dat File NOt Fucking Found you Loser! So you have to attrib it ( the dos equivalent of Unix's chmod). I think it's attrib -h -s -r system.dat. then you can easily delete that son of a bitch. You also have to do the same to user.dat.
7 -> reboot. go to your D drive. install windows. tada. quicker than a reformat, and a shit load easier.
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Making your cpu the shitz.	1/26/99
Those who tune in know that my computer was totally fucked the last week. I was not alone as the Evil Penguin is still going through hell as I write this. Here's how to got out of corrupt hell. Steps to avoid the dreaded reformat. 1 -> boot to dos using f8 at the boot. 2 -> edit your autoexec.bat to boot your cd-rom ip. i.e. on my computer, I have to add `mscdex.exe /D:MSCD000` or something like that. You must have this in there or your ass will be screwed like mines. I booted once, and just typed that in to get my cd running. UNfortunatly, win95 reboots during installation, so on the 1st reboot it asked for some drivers. Unfortunatly there was no cd-rom and I was fuxored. 3 -> reboot to dos mode again, or just type in your mscdex crap. 4 -> go in to your windows directory, copy himem.sys to somewhere else and `del .` 5 -> `deltree system` trust me. 6 -> Here's where I went wrong. The del command does not delete hidden or system files. So my corrupt ass registry still hung around. `c:\windows\>del system.dat File NOt Fucking Found you Loser!` So you have to attrib it ( the dos equivalent of Unix's chmod). I think it's `attrib -h -s -r system.dat`. then you can easily delete that son of a bitch. You also have to do the same to user.dat. 7 -> reboot. go to your D drive. install windows. tada. quicker than a reformat, and a shit load easier.
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