Well, shit. The downgrade from paid to free account totally broke the awesome custom theme I put a bunch of work into.

Oh, well, I'm not going to be using LJ much anymore, anyways. I hardly do anything that warrants a huge journal entry so I'm ditching LJ in favor of Twitter.

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Well, not exactly...But our main server, that holds all users' application data, desktop, documents, etc. corrputed and went down at about 5pm yesterday, and we're still running the recovery routines. No one can see anything they've been working on, access their e-mail, any applications (since they're hosted on our presentations server)... and the ( Read more... )

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Okay so we were supposed to watch a movie today in my American Popular Music class, but the computer didn't have the right codecs. They had to call classroom services tech support, and a few guys were there within a few minutes to take a look at it. 15 minutes later, after they couldn't do -anything-, I finally got up, walked up to the front and ( Read more... )

Underneath an old desk in a dark corner of one of the oldest residence halls on campus, I found a Diebold keyboard with mechanical keyswitches. It's clicky and wonderful. :D

I might swipe it.

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Yesterday, among the 53,000 students and faculty on campus, I was:

#10 for TOTAL bandwidth consumed (12299 MB)
#6 for TOTAL upstream bandwidth (11371 MB)

Freakin' sweet.