Psychotomy

well, there’s still one day left of this week, but i’m gonna go ahead and do this today. get over it :o

still have no badge (and no particularly great belief that THAT will resolve tomorrow :o the ribbon for printing on the badges was delivered to the building monday. but not to the badging office. apparently no one’s managed to find it yet :o)

getting my off-the-shelf linux box set up to be as usable as i can. except i can’t install SHIT. nada. can’t change off of gnome to something less useless. i mean, my windows laptop (which i don’t really need now ;) i can’t install firefox or gvim (b/c they’re not “approved applications” … folks, it’s a web browser (that’s approved on the linux machine) and a TEXT EDITOR!!! come ON!). trying to get VMWare on the linux box so i can play with installs. the unix support group has it, so it’s apparently vetted. now, if only we could figure out how to get ME a copy.

(actually, i have emails saying they added me to the dreamweaver and some other macromedia groups so i can run those apps … if only i HAD those apps (and some ungodly reason to use them) … so we can only guess how long vmware will take me)

took 3 days to be able to use the linux box. apparently it wasn’t ACTUALLY set up. it was just KINDOF set up, oops. had a stupid damned session this moning telling me all about how to use the document management software. “now select no don’t click that, select this. now type . no, don’t click, just type! i’m trying to show you that you don’t have to click! now click to this screen and do X. yes i know you can do it from the other screen, but this only takes like a second longer and the other way won’t always work” … so apparently if it’s not on the script it doesn’t ALWAYS work … greaaat. 4 hours of that BS.

looking at subversion for my group (thus why i want vmware; i wanna play with installing it before i fuck up a real system :o) and figuring out how to set up my dual monitor on a matrox card … i didn’t know matrox still MADE cards!

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