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Monday, November 07, 2005
TAMS alumni mailing list
I started getting emails today from the TAMS alumni mailing list today.. so far I've gotten about 15... good grief. I enjoy hearing from people I haven't heard from in almost 10 years, it's just strange. There are people that are lawyers, relief workers, medical students, chiropractic students.. and that's only including people who've written in so far.
How much fun is that!!
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How much fun is that!!
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A new place
Like I explained in my last post, I am living in a hotel. Well, yesterday we moved to a new hotel - this one very near Philadelphia, Pa.
I spent a lot of time yesterday reading in one of my favorite books - Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide (Companion Handbook), aka Baby Tintinalli. Since I finished the other books I bought at Barnes and Noble last week, I thought I should start reading something at least vaguely related to medicine.
Today, I am setting my computer up again. I (once again) deleted it completely and installed a couple of operating systems. First, I tried to install a Gentoo system, but I could not get the ethernet modem setup, so I gave up on that. FreeBSD did not detect my hard drive correctly, so I didn't want to go any further to prevent damage to my system. I ended up installing SuSE, and played with it for 3-4 hours, but I couldn't stand the userland interface... it drove me nuts. So, right now I'm back to Mandrake/Mandriva, which took me 2 hours to re-install after midnight last night. Needless to say, it was a late night. Of course, this is much of the time I spent reading the above book :)
So, now I'm trying to get the system back to where I left it - with a few improvements.
So, I'm going to stay with a 64 bit OS and wait for Macromedia and Sun to step up to the plate and make 64 bit versions of their software.
Right now my to do list is:
I spent a lot of time yesterday reading in one of my favorite books - Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide (Companion Handbook), aka Baby Tintinalli. Since I finished the other books I bought at Barnes and Noble last week, I thought I should start reading something at least vaguely related to medicine.
Today, I am setting my computer up again. I (once again) deleted it completely and installed a couple of operating systems. First, I tried to install a Gentoo system, but I could not get the ethernet modem setup, so I gave up on that. FreeBSD did not detect my hard drive correctly, so I didn't want to go any further to prevent damage to my system. I ended up installing SuSE, and played with it for 3-4 hours, but I couldn't stand the userland interface... it drove me nuts. So, right now I'm back to Mandrake/Mandriva, which took me 2 hours to re-install after midnight last night. Needless to say, it was a late night. Of course, this is much of the time I spent reading the above book :)
So, now I'm trying to get the system back to where I left it - with a few improvements.
So, I'm going to stay with a 64 bit OS and wait for Macromedia and Sun to step up to the plate and make 64 bit versions of their software.
Right now my to do list is:
- get codecs to play window media video, divx, xvid files installed
- make sure I have the onboard wireless card set up correctly (which will require going somewhere that has wireless access)
- 64 bit flash player
- 64 bit java platform
- 64 bit codecs for windows media, divx, xvid if I can't get them going
Friday, November 04, 2005
Living in a hotel
Well, my rotation is over (and has been for the past week) and now I'm on "vacation" to do residency interviews. The good thing is that I don't have to get up really early to go to work. The bad part is that I now have nowhere to live. It sucks. So, my girlfriend and I have spent the past week living in a hotel.
Not the best of situations.
Fortuntately, we are in one of those "Long stay hotels," which is really much more like a small apartment than a hotel. It still isn't home, though.
The good thing is there is free internet access here, which is nice. I recently got a new laptop and I'm still trying to find a linux distro that works well with the hardware and lets me do everything I want. Right now, I'm using Mandriva, but I think I'll be switching pretty soon. Right now, I'm looking at SUSE and Fedora. I'm still toying around with Gentoo and Debian as well. I really like the idea of Debian as a community, but I like the source built power of Gentoo. Anyway, that's for a later day.
Right now, I'm hanging out in the hotel and writing on my blog. I've been pretty neglectful of my blogs lately, but not much is going on right now in my life. I have some info about my interviews to post, but otherwise, I'm just hanging out, doing a lot of reading for fun (in fact, I need to find a book store so I can buy some more books to read), and spending time with my girlfriend.
While I'm enjoying the time "off," I would rather spend the time at home. I hate to say it, but I miss my Xbox :)
How pathetic, huh?
¶ 7:58:00 PM 0 comments
Not the best of situations.
Fortuntately, we are in one of those "Long stay hotels," which is really much more like a small apartment than a hotel. It still isn't home, though.
The good thing is there is free internet access here, which is nice. I recently got a new laptop and I'm still trying to find a linux distro that works well with the hardware and lets me do everything I want. Right now, I'm using Mandriva, but I think I'll be switching pretty soon. Right now, I'm looking at SUSE and Fedora. I'm still toying around with Gentoo and Debian as well. I really like the idea of Debian as a community, but I like the source built power of Gentoo. Anyway, that's for a later day.
Right now, I'm hanging out in the hotel and writing on my blog. I've been pretty neglectful of my blogs lately, but not much is going on right now in my life. I have some info about my interviews to post, but otherwise, I'm just hanging out, doing a lot of reading for fun (in fact, I need to find a book store so I can buy some more books to read), and spending time with my girlfriend.
While I'm enjoying the time "off," I would rather spend the time at home. I hate to say it, but I miss my Xbox :)
How pathetic, huh?
¶ 7:58:00 PM 0 comments
