I'm home for a couple of days and my parents (and sister) were having trouble with Windows. It'd freeze/crash/BSOD fairly often. I suggested linux :-)
So last night I tried to set up a dual boot but had trouble resizing the NTFS drive. This morning I ran chkdsk on it and fixed all the problems (which I suspect caused the Windows problems too). Now it's got SuSE running just great on it. And I must admit, I'm liking SuSE a lot better than my own Gentoo box :-/. I may switch one day...
And it's been a fun little task of migrating email (outlook on WinXP to Thunderbird on linux), bookmarks (firefox Win to linux), docs (shuffle stuff around to make room for a shared FAT32 drive), and music (wma->wav->ogg). All devices (handspring, digital camera, usb pen drive, printer) worked almost flawlessly (had to create a /dev/pilot symlink). The geforce4 driver doesn't seem to stay installed though...
Amarok isn't quite as nice as windows media player and I still have to find some good tools to replace GoldWave for audio editing for my dad (he doesn't use a lot of features) but they should be pretty much all set. Let's see if they want to stay...
A couple of days ago I posted a short survey. This was to use as some anecdotal evidence in a paper for my class on the Doctrine of Revelation. The paper is focused around skeptic David Hume's arguments against miracles occurring, based on the probability of the miracle occuring and the probability that the testimonies given are false. Lots of people have argued about it and the arguments often get into logic and math debates. I argued that people don't think like that at all, so it doesn't matter. This was well-supported by the survey responses I got; mathematical incoherence, misunderstood questions, and difficulty in assigning probabilities were exactly what I wanted :-) If anyone's interested in this more, feel free to email me for a copy of my paper, or whatever. Hume's Abject Failure by Earman was one of my main sources.
I need some participants in an informal survery. Please send me an email with answers to these questions (consider each one seperately):
Thanks!!! I'll follow this up later with an explanation of what I'm trying to achieve.
Our family celebrated Christmas at home for the first time EVER! We're normally in Mecca (aka Grand Rapids) for pretty much the whole week. It was nice. Good presents, good food, all that stuff. Even got to sleep in.
I hate feverish dreams. First, you're doing something dumb. Like becoming a square pinecone ornament. Well I think it was more like trying to become one with all the square pinecone ornaments on the tree all at once. Second, you can never do it, but keep trying again and again and again. It's really quite frustrating. And then you wake up shivering cold or sweating hot and can't fall asleep because you still have the headache you've had for days. poo.