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fightingthecageRARR!
V. productive day so far. Actually got out of bed to go to an appointment at the college today, even though I'd sort of written off the idea to go back and redo my A'Levels, due to the cost they'd told me and time and transport etc.
Turns out that its a lot cheaper than I was told - instead of £150 per A'Level, it's £150 for all of them, plus exam costs. So that's OK then, I can do that. And I can shuffle work I think, so I don't lose too many hours and...yeah. It was excellent, the woman was really helpful. I want to do 3 A'Level on a Fasttrack, which means doing them all in one year, instead of over two - she was a bit sceptical of me doing all three that way, as it's a lot of hours but I'm not worried about that. Don't have to decide until induction anyway and thats a month off. So hurrah! I've been accepted anyway. I may have to do only 2 A'Levels and one AS (half an A'Level) but I can live with that.
The subjects I'm going to do are English Lit. (though it has some Language in it), History and Philosopy. And she told me the texts for English but I can only remember two - something of Coleridges and Hamlet.
Guess which is practically the only Shakespeare play I haven't either read or seen performed or acted in? Yep. That one. *headdesk* I know so little about Hamlet, its ridiculous. I guess I'd better read it before the course starts. I was so hoping it's be either Macbeth of Henry V, because I know them backwards. Or Midsummers Night Dream. Romeo and Juliet. Hell, even A Winter's Tale or King Lear or Cymbeline, I know all of those. Damnit.
Ah well. I've avoided it this long, I suppose its about time I got clumped with it.
Anyways, in addition to that, I went to PC World about my computer. Basically, they reckon I've got a virus in the thing, althoughI didn't tell them about the pitiful lack of memory space on my hard drive. Doesn't matter - I'm going to take it in this afternoon and they're going to wipe the hard drive for me. This is fine. I'm only pissed that I'm going to have to re-download all my bloody CD's onto itunes, but whatever.
Incidentally, can someone explain to me how wireless works? I know you have to have a router and you can use a computer anywhere within a certain distance of that. But does the router plug into the phone socket or something? And do you pay a monthly fee to a provider, like you do with regular broadband? I've been looking at laptops and of course I'd like wireless, but really have no understanding of it whatsoever.
So. My day so far. Now I just haveto lug my computer tower to the other side of town on the bus. Ah well. Will be SO WORTH IT to get it back. :D!
And then read Hamlet. *pulls face*
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Date: 2006-08-01 01:35 pm (UTC)If you have DSL(Runs over phonelines) as your form of broadband, in most cases you will continue to use your Broadband modem, connected to the phoneline as it is now. A wireless router will then connect to your modem.
Basically the modem converts/translates the signal sent from your ISP(internet service provider) into something the computer can read. There are modems that work as routers as well, but unless you buy one from your ISP, most likely you're going to have two boxes (Modem which connects to phone jack, router which connects to modem. So you'll still need your network cable to connect the router to the modem.
but then the router broadcasts a signal that your wireless card will pick up from anywhere within a certain radius, depending on the strentch of the signal.
As far as I know, you shouldn't have to pay the ISP any more than you already do to have wireless. It's just the onetime router/network card cost.
If that's unclear, or you need more info, let me know.
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Date: 2006-08-01 01:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-02 12:06 am (UTC)*fears the Hamlet omg*