The end of an era

Or is it just an upgrade?

My old computer has been dead for several months now. I was going to try and put some money together to buy a new one, but I thought, why not just make a new computer? So I went to Memory Express's website, and put together a computer. Initially it was only going to be a few extra parts, but then in the end I bought pretty much and entire computer minus the harddrive, monitor Keyboard/mouse, and speakers.

Assembling a computer you learn to appreciate how complex it can be. It's not impossible, but I feel that it is not something for the un-technically-savy to accomplish. Or maybe I'm just bad at it? I spent about 15 minutes trying to open the case. Every little task took hours and hours!

Finally I built the computer. Upon turning it on, I remembered that I forgot to screw the motherboard down properly, so it was really noisy. There were a few other problems, but I solved them.

I'm going to install linux on my new computer! Then I can dual boot! It'll be exciting.

Linux is a DISEASE!!!

Well, maybe not, but that's what some people seem to think.

I had to do a presentation today in one of my classes. I brought my laptop to show some slides in Openoffice.org impress. (I told everyone it was powerpoint so they wouldn't get so confused. It was really just reading a powerpoint file, nothing else.)

Everything was all ready and prepared. Until!!! I had to set it up! I tried hooking up the laptop to the projector and it wouldn't work. I blame the projector, because as far as I know, I did everything right. I opened up the nvidia-settings program and changed the xorg.conf settings. Then I restarted X, and for some reason it didnt' work. D the computer expert went to the fron to fix things, I told him I was running "Fedora", and he just looked at me like I had a disease and said "I don't touch that." Maybe it would have worked if I was running Ubuntu? I really doubt the distribution makes that much difference. I preffer having the up to date software that Fedora offers. Maybe I'm making a big deal about nothing?

So then the instructor asked "why isn't it working?"
Someone says "he's running fedora"
The intsructor looks puzzled. "You're not running windows?"
"Yes" I replied.
She didn't say anything more, maybe she's heard of linux?
I had a terminal open, and someone said "There's something wrong with his computer!!"

Eventually we just got a windows laptop and just used that instead.

Fedora is like this weird freaky thing on my laptop. Everyone asks me if I'm running vista when they see it. Then I do the spinny cube thing and everyone has the exact same suprised expression. Today Y almost fell out of her chair. She said it moved so fast. Are computers supposed to be slow? I don't really know.

Anyways, the presentation was only a slight bit of train wreck. Hopefully next time things work out better.

UPDATE: I got an A in that class