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I think I finally settled in up here at Gainesville. Thanks to some new policies by the dorm internet administrators, they
put up some VERY aggressive filters to block P2P file sharing and anything even remotely related to that. It's really quite a system,
though of course for dorm residents it's really bad as there have been problems galore with it. I myself got it set up in
Windows just fine, but I've spent the last 4 days struggling to get it to work in Linux. Luckly though the help of the
actual people in charge of the network and not regular tech support I managed to get it working somewhat, though it's
still a bit sketchy. A LOT of people are having problems though. Though of course that ever lovable w32.Blaster worm
is causing all sorts of headaches. I know at least 10 people personally who got it, and heard many many stories about others.
I have to admit though, a lot of people haven't turned on their computers all summer and so weren't patching them, hence
the second they turn them on when they get up here they get blasted. Even a guy with a brand new computer got it within
30 seconds of booting up. And since our internet access is blocked until you go through that long registration process, there
was no way to get the fix or patch for it unless you had a friend with it already on a disk. Yep, fun times in the dorms.
But moving on, I got moved up here just fine otherwise on Sunday. My roommate didn't appear till last night however. It's been a
surprisingly busy week, as I've been meeting up with friends every night basically and having a blast. Not to mention all the
tons of free food that are always at Welcome Week events. And UF built a new bookstore, which was finally completed about 2 weeks
before I moved up. It's REALLY nice it's a lot more spacious than the old HUB.
And finally, making use of the digital camera!
Packing up stuff
The untouched dorm room
So much to unpack
My new dorm room
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