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ITP 100 weekly rituals

When I get to class, I

  1. insert my Kingston DataTraveler and go through the barrage of “new hardware detected or installed or please open this in Windows Media Player!” (what?),
  2. set the resolution on the monitor to something sane,
  3. turn on cleartype for slightly nicer font rendering,
  4. get rid of the search bar on the taskbar,
  5. adjust the mouse speed so that it doesn’t take an hour to get from one end of the screen to the other, and
  6. open Firefox Portable to check on things before the teacher gets in.

There has to be a better way to get my education.

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5 Responses to “ITP 100 weekly rituals”

  1. laurie Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    Until they find another way to do this education thing, letting us truly learn without ridiculous and nonessential requirements so they can pocket more money, their will be no easier way to get an education. At least next semester is online, with your own computer.

  2. Dane Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 11:30 pm

    You’re lucky. The computers I used at college back in the day… they were Pentium II’s with XP Professional loaded. Plenty of bloated software meant they ran extremely slow. We also had to use CRT monitors. I wasn’t able to change my resolution. There was no Cleartype available to switch on. I couldn’t install Firefox.

    I still cringe at the memory. *sits in a corner and slowly rocks back and forth*

    And ‘back in the day’ meant the year of 2003! And some of ’04.

  3. wyrmmage Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 11:35 pm

    Write a batch file that you can execute that does that stuff for you (well, everything except using FireFox Portable :P )…it saves a lot of time :)

  4. Sam Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 11:48 pm

    At this point it wouldn’t be worth learning batch. The semester ends next month, and after that my courses will be completely online (Unix I, English comp, on my way to Linux sysadminship). :)

    I’ve considered a GNU/Linux distribution from a bootable flash drive, but my datatraveler is only 2GB. I’m sure there are plenty that would fit, but I’m more of a Fedora/Ubuntu/Debian type of guy, not a DSL/Puppy guy. ;)

    Mom, you made a typo!

  5. Dane Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 11:57 pm

    You could always carry a LiveCD around, but that could be troublesome. It won’t hurt for you to use Windows every now and then! :o

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