The FreeBSD install went remarkably well last night. Whatever was preventing the boot disk from ejecting so I could put the install disk in the CD drive on Friday was miraculously resolved (possibly due to some intervention by M. over the weekend), and everything went quite smoothly, for a unix install anyway. I now have root! And user accounts! And hopefully today I can figure out why I can't get the machine to talk to an FTP server. Not having a functional web browser (or email) while trying to set up a new system really sucks. But oh well. As long as I remeber the root password I'm all good.
K. is going to help me fix the POiS iBook sometime soon, so that's a good thing. We love K. I found all of my install disks at home last night, like I really want to install an old version of OSX and then have to make a mess out of the system with multiple upgrades again but whatever. As long as I can keep the stupid thing hobbling along long enough to replace it and then put *inx on it, I'm good. Any suggestions from the peanut gallery on a good flavor of unix or distribution of linux to run on a G3 iBook? I understand there are several that will work well.
My financial aid packages from Albany and from William and Mary have shown up. No word yet from Santa Clara on the FA, and no word from the other 7 schools I applied to about acceptance. So, my options at this point are to 1 - Go to Virgina and embrace a known quantity of debt in exchange for an excellent legal education and fresh start on life 2 - Go to upstate NY, embrace some debt and a large scholarship, and be stuck in upstate New York for at least 7 years or 3 - Go to Santa Clara, embrace an unknown quantity of debt, and spend 3 years battling with Stanford students for jobs. Tricky. For all that leaving the state has become emotionally ddifficult in the last few months, I still think this is probably the best idea. Besides, in Virgina, I still have the fall back butter-churning/ale-wife options.
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