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Reply 980

Scipio90

Using Arch at the moment, but have used fedora in the past. You?

Reply 981

Zoedotdot

My ex would love all of you Mac/Linux lovers! He despises Windows with a passion. I'm starting to as well - the stupid dual hard drive thing made my computer really slow because I'd filled up one hard drive and had no idea how to re-route everything to the next one. Luckily, he did some funky stuff and made all my pictures and documents and music save to the E: instead of the C: and I now have two half full drives. It's silly though. And now my Vista service pack won't install - I looked up the error code on the help and they'd mysteriously left it off. I then googled it and it turns out that the only solution is to reinstall Vista completely. Thankfully, he's also going to sort that out when he comes to visit me in Cambridge. Good job I have such a good techie friend :p:

Reply 982

zedliv

I'm scared. Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared.
I don't want to go any more :frown:

Well, I want to be there and happy and settled in with friends and knowing what I'm doing and coping with the work etc, but I don't want to go through the hard and scary process of getting to that point. :frown:

Scared.

Reply 983

Scipio90

zedliv

I'm scared. Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared.
I don't want to go any more :frown:

Scared.

Everyone will be in the same situation, and you'll probably be happy and settled in before you realise it.

Reply 984

Zoedotdot

zedliv

I'm scared. Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared.
I don't want to go any more :frown:

Scared.

Don't you worry my lovely, it will all be fine :smile:

Every single person I've met who's going has been absolutely lovely, really friendly and willing to chat. I know exactly how you're feeling - I think we've all been through patches like this, but I promise you, it will be great. After a couple of days it will feel really natural :smile:

The work will be hard but you're up to it! And they've had 800 years of dealing with students, they know how to help us settle in :smile:

It WILL be fine, don't worry :hugs:

Reply 985

Scipio90

56k warning!

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My desktop. <3 fluxbox and conky.

Reply 986

Cities

zedliv

I'm scared. Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared.
I don't want to go any more :frown:

Scared.

Yeh I'm kinda worried about the first few days as well; the act of randomly chatting without knowing anything about someone is something that I've seldom done in my life so I'm not really sure wtf I'm going to do about that lol. Also I absolutely hate small talk, so that's going to be a problem as well. So I'm in the same boat; and I think loads of people will also be as well, and if that's the case, then hopefully everyone will empathise and speed things along? :smile:

Reply 987

ukebert

zedliv

I'm scared. Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared.
I don't want to go any more :frown:

Scared.

I know exactly how you feel. You are not alone :hugs:

Reply 988

alex_hk90

zedliv

I'm scared. Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared.
I don't want to go any more :frown:

Scared.

I know how you feel.

Reply 989

thegluups

Scipio90

Using Arch at the moment, but have used fedora in the past. You?

Ubuntu... tried Kubuntu for a while, but I dont like KDE...

Dont worry Zedliv, the first week might me tough, but you'll settle in very quickly, how can someone as nice as you not make friends? And I'm sure the worlkload will be manageable for you :biggrin:

Hugs

Reply 990

zedliv

Ah, thanks everybody :smile:

I feel a bit better now!

Reply 991

*stars and stripes*

thegluups

Why would you say that?

That was the first thing to go in lol

Just thought I'd better remind you :p:

smilepea, it'll be fine :smile:

You'll get everything packed in no time and if you haven't finished the workbook, I'm sure there will be others who haven't either :cool:

Reply 992

Scipio90

thegluups

Ubuntu... tried Kubuntu for a while, but I dont like KDE..

I prefer gnome to KDE, but I only need X for firefox and occasionally the gimp, so I prefer something lightweight. Plus, orange/brown = eurgh, and I feel more comfortable with a community rather than a corporate distro.

Reply 993

*stars and stripes*

zedliv

I'm scared. Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared Scared.
I don't want to go any more :frown:

Scared.

You''ll be fine, I promise :hugs:

I've had the same kind of panic on today, so I'll medic panic with you, if you like :smile:

Failing that, we could both be each other's calming influence... everyone finds the first term hard but we'll all be in the same boat (we'll all be thinking it even if some people don't say anything and look like they're the epitome of the well adjusted student!)

Chocolate helps...or that was my remedy this evening :love:

Pizza, films with my sister and chocolate have worked wonders so far :biggrin:

Reply 994

Zoedotdot

I find doughnuts are better than chocolate. Time for my romantic evening alone with my Russian textbook :love:

Reply 995

*stars and stripes*

I'm not really a doughnut fan :s-smilie:

Though if I were to eat them, custard ones are best :smile:

Have fun with your Russian textbook :biggrin:

I've got to get offline for a bit so I'll reply to your PM later, sorry :hugs:

Reply 996

zedliv

*stars and stripes*

You''ll be fine, I promise :hugs:

I've had the same kind of panic on today, so I'll medic panic with you, if you like :smile:

Pizza, films with my sister and chocolate have worked wonders so far :biggrin:

Hehe, thanks, I thik I might veer towards medic panic than being a calming influence. Unless saying that I'm panicing too can calm somebody down? :s-smilie:

And you must have smelt the pizza from here! Now for chocolate... And my sister is already at uni :frown:

But I have all you lovely TSR people to calm me down :smile:

Speaking of medic panic, do you know what set you'll be in? Somebody I met at one of the coming up parties knew her set (from Trinity Hall). Somebody on here said that Trinity medics will probably be in M17 or 18, but that's not definite.

Reply 997

thegluups

Scipio90

Yeah, I see what you mean...

I've modified my version enough, so it looks like Dark Vista... so.. to be honest, I tried Ubuntu at first because it made the transition from WIndows to Linux less scary, and then I guess I just stuck with it.

To be honest, my new computer is powerful enough, so I don't have to worry about something lightweight... and I do like Compiz etc. Also, I tend to prefer graphic mode to console.. it's a lot easier to use DIsk manager than having to manually mount it...

Having said that, Xubuntu is great for a very old laptop I have...