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" And God saw the crappiness of Windoze and said 'May Linux be
spread among the world.' Then all was good until a young boy came
before God and said ' Linux doesn't work with my modem...'. God
pondered for 40 days and 41 nights and said ' Henceforth, there
shall be... Cygwin.'"
Okay.. I'm sorry, I couldn't resist that... I'm so happy now!
I've found a decent fix to my linux-not-liking-my-modem problems: Cygwin.
Cygwin is a DLL and set UNIX tools that provide a Linux-like
environment in windows. The DLL acts like the UNIX API, basically
allowing any linux program to be recompiled easily under windows.
However, A shitload of the programs you'd want already come with
cygwin. Even the Linux desktop managers like GNOME and KDE are ported
to Cygwin. But one thing to note : It is NOT a linux emulator. It's
runs just as fast as your current system, and it can even control your
'Real' system. I typed in a SHUTDOWN command expect it to shutdown
cygwin; It shutdown Windows instead :P.
I've also found a song I can really call my "Favorite" song: The
ending staff roll of Tales of Symphonia. It starts with a beautiful
piano solo that's slowly joined by a string quartet. Shortly
afterwards, an ocarina takes the melody, before a small french horn
solo finishes it's line.Then then the Horn goes over into an
increasingly
stronger solo before the piano takes back it's part. With a triumphant
burst, all of the instruments come together in an epic psuedo-climax
and the music slowly decreases for roughly half a minute. A shifting
phrase starts to sound from the piano and a short horn solo plays out
as the strings incrementally enter with increasing amounts of volume. A
strong violin
solo starts as the piano accents the end of every repeating phase, with
more strings joining on every repeat.Swiftly, everything goes silent
aside from
the piano and a sweet solo plays out till a brief ritard and short but
sweet
broken chord at the end.
All I can say is that I love the song. The first time I heard
it, I fell asleep a minute through it. When I heard it again yesterday,
every bit of built up stress on me just melted away. Needless to say,
after I finished all the end-of-game movies I went online and found the
MP3. You can find it at http://bluelaguna.net/music/tos/mp3s.php near the bottom of the page.
Anyways.. I SHOULD be doing my latin homework, but I really don't care ;P. I guess I'm
going to go anyways, though...Sayonara, Bakuhito.
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