Major Megabytes

February 6, 1998

This has just been one of those kinds of days... actually, it started last night. I got an e-mail from one of the lists I'm on, and it said that Symantec had a demo of Norton Utilities 3.0 available. I'd been wanting to try them, so I went to the site and gulped at the 28MB download, but started it anyway.

I made it up to 27MB before I got a warning saying my C: drive was full. Oops... I emptied the recycle bin, and -- not thinking about the fact that the file was in the cache -- I emptied the Temporary Internet Files folder. There went my 27MB, of course, so after a minute of head-banging, I went back and tried again.

That time I made it to 17 MB before Jevim showed up and I told him what I was getting. "Why just get a demo?" he said, and, being very bad (yes, I know...), I figured I'd use the full version for my little test drive. I went to where he said the archive was tucked away -- I had killed my download so I could get a connection -- and then discovered the archive was of version 2.0, not 3.0. *sigh* Another screw-up due to my own stupidity.

The third time is the charm, right? I was going to FTP it from my shell account on my ISP, then FTP it from there so I wouldn't have to deal with net traffic. I would have done it if I'd known where the file was located at Symantec, but that's not where ZDnet had a link from. *sigh* So Jevim downloaded it over his Ethernet connection, and DCCed it to me over IRC. Started to, anyway, it was a big file and I've a slow modem. We got down to an hour left on the transfer when we decided it was time to go to bed, and thought we would resume it and finish it in the morning before he headed to class.

Well, naturally, it refused to resume. But we started a new transfer, and he left it running when he headed off to class, and I went back to sleep for a while and had the file waiting for me when I woke back up.

I got NU installed, played with it and tweaked my system until I realized at 1 my time that Jevim had probably been online a while, and hopped online. He'd "only" been waiting an hour and a half, and he was hungry, so he headed off to get lunch (after 2pm). I proceeded to play some more, and now I have about as optimized a system as I can get at the moment. I'm also down to roughly 80MB on each of my 2 hard drives.

After Jevim got back and we were chatting again, Mom brought in my mail... one was an offer for 3 of the games I've got, plus another, for $50, when between us, Jevim and I paid over $65 for them. That was a little annoying, to say the least.

Then I got to the phone bill from AT&T. I'd let Jevim use my calling card a couple times while he was at his parents' house, putting the calls on my bill. Little did we realize how much AT&T charges for calling card calls not made with their card (I have one from my local telco). 45 minutes of night time (after midnight) calling time was over $16.

I'm glad I've switched. I now have a calling card with my long distance company, and hopefully if I have to use it, it won't cost near that much again. They're also sending me 40 minutes of free phone cards a month for 7 months (So long as I spend $10 a month), and so I'm sending those to Jevim to use to call me, and that should work out well.

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