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So, I’ve been battling a bit with Linux today. I’m not 100% used to the whole idea of package managers, but feel that I’m learning things quickly. It’d be nice to have someone who can show me how simple stuff works, but I don’t think anyone that I know around here has used anything other than Windows or OSX. I can’t get NetBeans to run; I have it installed and everything, but whenever I try to start it, it loads a blank window titled License Agreement and I can’t get anywhere from there. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the JRE and NetBeans, and nothing seems to work. Very frustrating.

I do have Eclipse working, but it’s not very intuitive for me. I can’t find a default “applet” template, which the tutorial book I’m using basically assumes that you have. I guess I’ll have to look that stuff up on the interwebs when I get a chance.

Why do I have to go through all this namby-pamby bullshit to set up everything when I just want to spit code? I swear this is the thing hurting my productivity the most. If I could actually get a development environment up and running, I’d be able to actually DO stuff.

In other news:

Played the new version of Crainium today. 600 new questions! Pretty epic. My team dominated the first round easily. After watching some Balls of Fury (and a few people checking out), we played another game with only 2 teams: Guys vs Girls (3v5) It came down to round 3 of sudden death mode in the middle before the she-folk were crowned victors. Want to know what we lost on? We were given a list of 5 girl names, and had to pick the 2 that weren’t characters in Little Women. Hella stupid. Yes, I say “hella”. Deal.

I made a bunch of sugar cookies, and we frosted and decorated them and consumed extraneous amounts of sugar. It was absolutely glorious.

UPS hasn’t updated my Eee shipment since the initial departure last night. Seriously guys, it’s only going from OH to Chicago. I really really really really really want it to be here before Christmas, because I’m pretty sure they don’t deliver on the 25th. Must have new gadget to show off!

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