Somehow I got really really tired yesterday and went to sleep early. But I didn’t manage to wake up early. After prayers I came back home, ate lunch and slept again! My mom forced me to wake up after 3 or 4 hours.

What happened later was really cool: I got my modem working under linux! I had to open up the computer and remove the modem to disable Plug and Play and to reassign the IRQs. I used COM2 for the modem and COM1 for the mouse. Yes, under Windows everything is detected automatically for you (hopefully!) and you never know what’s going on. Not so in linux. You must know a lot about your configuration and must be willing to get down and dirty to succeed with linux. Even after setting up the modem, I still had to update my links and permissions in /dev to make everything work properly.

I didn’t manage to talk to Siddiqi today. My mom called and they weren’t home (in case you’re wondering, Evangi).

I have a lot of letters and emails to write, so I guess that’s what I’ll be doing tonight. Oh, and I watched ‘Wag the Dog’ yesterday on my PC using Video CDs. It’s a really cool movie, and I had only watched half of it in Cyprus.