Reading (For Dummies)

Good news!

I think I get internet access in my flat tomorrow. Pictures pictures pictures if that's the case. For now I quench my internet addiction with yet another internet cafe (same one I met the psycho at the other day).

My dad and bro skipped town this morning. I think we were all getting on each others' nerves a bit in the end, so it was probably a good idea.

So I went and tried to matriculate at the University again. This time they said I needed my college diploma and wouldn't let me matric without it. I also need to enroll in health insurance, pay the semester fee, etc. But, I can supposedly get my student ID card and computer account on Monday if all goes well. Since I have enough of my shit done to get internet access in my dorm though, I'm pretty happy. So long as I can find a 10B2 to 10B2 converter tomorrow, that is...the annoying thing is that my dorm building uses thinwire networking. So, of course, I'm at the mercy of the stupidity of the people further down the hall from me. Ohwell, it looks like nobody around here has computers/uses the dorm ethernet, so maybe I'll be okay. Maybe I can even get a job administering things.

Funny thing of the day? Going back to the Computational Logic floor of the Informatik building and being told that I could not plug my laptop into the network, for "security reasons." I then portscanned the computer, and among other things, it was running OpenSSH version 3.1pl2. You really just have to laugh. System administrators that don't subscribe to CERT, obviously.

So I bitched at my girlfriend about all the trouble I'm having here getting into the stinking university I was accepted to. Seriously, it's as though the university doesn't want me to even get registered for classes, there's so much paperwork. I have a folder with 35 separates that I've "read" and signed (I use read in quotes because everything is written in German, which I don't understand). I really can't recommend that anyone go to school in Germany, as the amount of paperwork is a full-time job in itself.

Maybe posting tomorrow? If not you'll know my internet access is hampered by 1) the administrator being lazy, or 2) my not being able to find 10B2 -> 10BT converter/hub (wouldn't suprise me, as 10B2 was used for maybe a week in the late 70s by a few network guys).

Tchus.