Now that we found out NCSU is going to make dramatic tuition increases, Christian has decided he is going to make do with the equipment he had. RWDub’s Reviews will be quite happy to know he uses Linux Mint on a USB stick to run the computer and persist his data between boots. There is no money even for a hard drive. It is good thing we had that old cardboard box from when we could afford to buy stuff from Amazon. We are going to have dig up a mouse somewhere, too.
Day 62 of 1000
The kids are completely swamped with homework. I am completely swamped with the need to learn more about SQL and data mining. We are broke (and still a little big dizzy) from having attended the North Carolina State Fair yesterday. So, breaking our normal routine, we went home for lunch (rather than Wendy’s) after church and ate leftovers. We left Mom to study for her Financial Accounting class, and made our way into the stacks rather than to the first floor conversation area of the library where there is a lot more college drama, but a lot less studying. Now we are hard at work in the fourth floor stacks with photographic evidence that we are on task.
I decided that I needed to upgrade my Ubuntu to 11.10, load up MySQL and find myself a project that has to do both with SQL and BleAx to kill two birds with one stone–SQL and BleAx. It is really three birds because every time I go over to our buddy Lyle’s blog, I get Linux envy.
Update: I updated VirtualBox to v4.1.4 and Ubuntu to 11.10. I turned off that horrible Unity thing that the Ubuntu guys want to impose on us, I struggled for about 5 minutes to get full screen mode going again in VirtualBox with GuestAdditions. Now I am installing MySQL Server, MySQL Client, and MySQL Administrator. I am not sure that is exactly the right thing to do, but it will probably get me started. We will head home to the house in about five minutes.
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