Computer Rebuild Hiccups

I am usually on my computer several hours per day. This includes doing my Kanji reviews, moderating thejapanesepage.com chatroom which has proven to be a great source of help and advice as well. I am going to be using the iknow website to learn vocab, and anki for my reviews for grammar and vocab. Needless to say, my Japanese learning environment is very computer Dependant.

A couple of days ago I had an accident with my laptop, they are NOT designed for heave wear anymore. My last laptop lasted almost 5 years and still works, but lacking a power cord and current hardware, it makes things difficult. I am rough with my laptop yes, but with the abuse that one went through, being older hardware and still lasting I didn't think too much of it.

My current laptop is just over 6 months old, I have already replaced the hard drive once, and now it won't even start up. I would rather buy a better desktop than guess troubleshoot and burn more money. I needed a different temporary solution.

My dad had a slightly older desktop that he was going to chuck, so I scooped it up and threw in an old hard drive I had sitting around. Thanks to the older hardware, windows would be WAY too slow and I couldn't find my install cd's anymore either. Solution? TRY LINUX

Fedora 10 was the first distro i tried, being a total n00b I took the advice of someone and it proved WAY too unstable on my computer. It was also very difficult to get going as well. After a day and a half of messing around and getting frustrated I tried Ubuntu. An hour later I was running Ubuntu smoothly and started to setup programs and plugins I like to use, and now have everything set up for my Japanese learning environment.

Now I need to clear up my 750 tall review pile and 100 failed pile for Kanji reviews ( that is the cost of rushing the end of RTK 1 and then having your system fail )

Welcome to my Blog

Due to popular request, I have decided to open up a blog to Show everyone my progress in my quest to obtain Literacy, and dare I say Fluency, in the Japanese Language. If you are reading this, CONGRATULATIONS in coming across my page, and thanks for coming!

I will post a list of my favourite online resources, as well as a list of my favourite books that I have either used, or know enough about to recommend to recommend.

Well, time will tell where we go from here, hopefully we have fun on the way there :D