Loving Poland For A Second Time, Laptop….not so much
So we’re in Poland again, having more fun this time than last, seeing a lot more of it anyway. We’re here until Thursday and have done everything we’ve already wanted to do. Thursday we go back to Berlin for a couple of days and then head home Sunday. The train ride to Poland was pretty much what you’d expect, I read and slept a lot, so that’s probably what’s going to happen on the train ride back to Germany.
On to the computer problems: The first couple of nights in Berlin were fine, no problems at all. Then I installed VMWare to mess around with something, I had my laptop dual-booted with Windows and Backtrack. I rebooted and, suddenly, there was no grub menu, which meant I had no way to access Backtrack or Windows. Having no other way around it, I found a computer repair shop and, using a German Windows disc, fixed the problem. I think I already mentioned that, my memory’s been getting worse so I can’t be sure. Now we’re in Poland and I’m having some issues with wireless in Backtrack 5, I can’t get it working even though I had it working in 4.
Having gotten tired of messing around with it I deleted the partitions on the hard drive that Backtrack was taking up. Upon rebooting I realized that I deleted Backtrack, but Grub was still looking for it. Again, no way to get into Backtrack or Windows. Luckily, this time I was equipped with a Backtrack 5 cd so I reinstalled it and now I’m back in Windows. Now I just hope nothing happens with Windows because I’m not downloading a Windows cd, good thing Backtrack is free. I’ve done more computer work over here in Europe than I do at home. At least I can keep my skills up.
I finally got my Financial Aid in, so starting in nine days I’ll be a student. I got all my books in so I’m looking forward to having something to do with those, instead of having them sit in a cabinet collecting dust. Anyway, I’m in Europe, I’ll talk about school when I’m back at home attending classes. We spent a good amount of time today walking around Krakow. We went to the salt mines and went down about 300 km. Once we got to the top we walked around, back to Krakow unbeknownst to us, then back to where the salt mines were then taking a train back. Got back to Krakow and got to the five story mall and walked around that for a while, ended up eating at a Burger King.
I’ve been having some weird dreams with people I work with, which is weird because I don’t miss them and i don’t miss working with them, so it escapes me why I am dreaming about them. Oh well, it escapes me why my brain does most of what it does. I guess I’m going to mess around with my laptop some more and figure out why the wireless isn’t working in Backtrack 5 no matter what I do. PIECE!!!!!
