Software

My laptop has been running flawlessly, so naturally it's time to load it up with a bunch of new software until it gets flaky.

Wednesday night I installed Visual Studio on it. All I needed was a C++ compiler so I could complete a class assignment, but this vast collection of bloatware took nearly two hours to install. I think my writable DVD drive is much slower reading CD-ROMS than a regular CD/DVD drive would be. Only 8x or something. I wonder if I could get an external one that would be faster.

Today I'm installing AFS, so I can get to my campus file system directories, and VPN, so I can do it from home. I have little doubt that this will screw me up good in some subtle way that I'll never quite be able to fix.